Bitcoin miners sue US energy dept
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The Texas Blockchain Council, an industry association for Bitcoin miners, is suing the US department of energy’s statistics unit over a mandatory survey on their power consumption. The group called the inquiry “an unprecedented and illegal data collection demand”. Bitcoin miners accounted for 2.3% of the nation’s total power use in 2023.