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Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use

Bitcoin mines are energy-hungry data farms.

The Texas Blockchain Council and Bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms filed suit, contending that the DOE’s implementation of the survey as an “emergency” action was unlawful. “Weaponizing an agency against law-abiding businesses for political reasons must not be permitted,” Brian Morgenstern, head of public policy at Riot Platforms, said in a post on X yesterday celebrating the legal victory. A district judge in Texas not only granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) last week but also wrote that the plaintiffs are “likely to succeed” in showing that the DOE didn’t have enough reason to authorize the survey as an emergency collection of data request.

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