EIA to temporarily suspend bitcoin miner survey after lawsuit -court document

NEW YORK : The U.S. Division of Vitality has agreed to quick droop its wanted detect of cryptocurrency miner energy use following a lawsuit by prominent miner Riot Blockchain and an industry neighborhood, in accordance with a inspect filed on Friday with the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Waco Division.

The DOE’s statistical arm, the Vitality Recordsdata Administration, will quit its detect and sequester the records obtained after it began gathering particulars from bitcoin miners early this month, the eye said.