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Belarusian President Urged Employees to Use Available Surplus Electricity to Mine Cryptocurrency
Summary: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko urged employees to use the available surplus electricity to mine cryptocurrency. Lukashenko has advised workers to stay in their home country instead of emigrating to fill low-paid farming jobs in Poland and Germany. The Belarusian leader pointed to an alternative source of income, noting there’s enough electricity in Belarus to power ...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko urged employees to use the available surplus electricity to mine cryptocurrency. Lukashenko has advised workers to stay in their home country instead of emigrating to fill low-paid farming jobs in Poland and Germany. The Belarusian leader pointed to an alternative source of income, noting there’s enough electricity in Belarus to power cryptocurrency mining.
Belarus legalized crypto-related business activities, including mining, with a presidential decree that went into force in March 2018. In April 2019, Alexander Lukashenko suggested that bitcoin farms could be built at the nuclear power plant in Grodno region on the Lithuanian border to utilize the surplus electrical energy.
By Amy Liu
Tags: Alexander Lukashenko,Cryptocurrency,Electricity
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