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<ul><li>The Texas Senate Committee passes a restrictive Bitcoin mining bill with no opposition.</li><li>Bitcoin miners consume nearly 2100 MW from Texas’s central power grid.</li></ul><a href="https://thenewscrypto.com/tag/texas/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Texas</a>, the leading Bitcoin mining capital of the world, is just a phase away from passing the most significant anti-Bitcoin mining bill. On Tuesday, the State Committee in Austin approved the bill with zero opposition votes, moving it to the “uncontested” list. Currently, it is in the queue in the Texas House to be amended as a law.The Bill, Senate Bill 1751, is targeted at ensuring the “regulation and tax treatment” of <a href="https://thenewscrypto.com/tag/mining/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin mining</a> facilities in Texas. Three key senators Lois Kolkhorst, Donna Campell, and Robert Nichols sponsored and introduced the bill in the Senate on March 7.This anti-Bitcoin mining bill, if passed, will restrict miners’ power demands from the Texas grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Significantly, it imposes two notable restrictions on Bitcoin miners. One, it will eliminate tax reductions on certain properties. Second, it will limit the miner’s participation in the “demand response program” to less than 10% of the total load. Particularly, the bill demands any <a href="https://thenewscrypto.com/tag/mining/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">mining</a> operator that consumes electricity exceeding 10 megawatts (MW) to register as a “large flexible load.”Continue reading <a href="https://thenewscrypto.com/will-bitcoin-mining-face-harsh-restrictions-in-texas/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">&#64;TheNewsCrypto</a>

Will Bitcoin Mining Face Harsh Restrictions in Texas?

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