La EIA suspende voluntariamente la encuesta sobre los mineros de Bitcoin tras una demanda por el escrutinio energético
La EIA suspende voluntariamente la encuesta sobre los mineros de Bitcoin tras una demanda por el escrutinio energético A US court has temporarily suspended an Energy Information Administration (EIA) directive requiring Bitcoin miners to participate in a mandatory survey. The decision, made by Judge Alan Albright, prevents the EIA from enforcing the Texas Blockchain Council and its members to submit survey responses or from collecting and sharing any data, including that already received, for a duration of four weeks. EIA Administrator Joseph DeCarolis announced that the agency would pause the survey on its own accord until March 22, with assurances of not penalizing non-respondents before March 25. Despite this voluntary pause, Judge Albright stated that a mere declaration does not suffice to alleviate concerns regarding the enforcement threat from other defendants or beyond the specified date, nor does it address the surveys compliance costs. The temporary halt comes in the wake of a lawsuit by Riot Platforms and the Texas Blockchain Council against the Department of Energy‘s scrutiny of crypto miners’ energy consumption. The EIA had previously initiated a survey focusing on the electricity usage by select US crypto mining companies, authorized as an “emergency collection of data request” by the Office of Management
