阿肯色州拒绝将禁止BTC奖励矿工在军事设施附近建立业务的法案

州参议院的纽约市，县和地方事务委员会以6-1投票反对拟议的参议院第30号法案，该法案由参议员里奇·希尔（Ricky Hill）（R-Cabot）赞助。

A bill that would have banned BTC block reward miners from setting up operations within a 30-mile radius of a military facility has been rejected in Arkansas.

一项将禁止BTC奖励矿工在军事设施半径范围内建立业务的法案在阿肯色州被拒绝。

The City, County and Local Affairs Committee at the State Senate voted 6-1 against the proposed Senate Bill 30, which was sponsored by Sen. Ricky Hill (R-Cabot).

州参议院的纽约市，县和地方事务委员会以6-1投票反对拟议的参议院第30号法案，该法案由参议员里奇·希尔（Ricky Hill）（R-Cabot）赞助。

According to local reports, the lengthy debate on the bill spilled over to discussions on digital assets in general, putting Sen. Hill on the defensive as he attempted to separate his stance on ‘crypto’ and his fight against miners stationed close to military operations.

根据当地的报道，关于该法案的漫长辩论散布在有关数字资产的讨论中，这使参议员希尔试图将自己对“加密货币”的立场分开，而他与矿工的斗争则驻扎在军事行动附近。

“Crypto is here to stay; I am not anti-crypto; I am pro-military; my stance here is I want to do all I can to protect our military and their facilities,” Hill told the committee members.

“加密货币将留在这里；我不是反克雷普托；我是亲军的；我在这里的立场是，我想尽一切可能保护我们的军队及其设施。”希尔告诉委员会成员。

He added that Arkansas has over 53,000 square miles and that his bill would only restrict a 30-mile radius around five military facilities. However, the committee members were unsold on the bill’s merits or the state’s role in restricting mining activities, which they say is a federal role.

他补充说，阿肯色州拥有超过53,000平方英里，他的账单只会限制五个军事设施的30英里半径。但是，委员会成员未兑现该法案的优点或该州在限制采矿活动中的作用，他们说这是联邦角色。

“If our federal government, under two different administrations, has not seen the threat, I think it’s not in our interest to make that decision for them,” said Sen. Joshua Bryant (R-Rogers).

参议员约书亚·布莱恩特（Joshua Bryant）（R-Rogers）说：“如果我们的联邦政府在两个不同的政府中没有看到威胁，我认为为他们做出决定并不符合我们的利益。”

While the bill would apply to the five military facilities in Arkansas, Sen. Hill’s immediate target was a mining operation under construction in Cabot, about five miles from the Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville. Florida-based Interstate Holdings owns the mine and has received heavy criticism from the local community and its leadership for months, led by Cabot Mayor Ken Kincade. Initially, the complaints were centered on common criticism, such as the noise levels at the prospective mine and the energy consumption. However, the local leaders introduced the national security concerns angle late last year, which culminated in Sen. Hill’s bill.

虽然该法案将适用于阿肯色州的五个军事设施，但参议员希尔的直接目标是在卡博特（Cabot）进行的一次采矿业务，距离杰克逊维尔（Jacksonville）的小石城空军基地约五英里。总部位于佛罗里达州的州际控股公司拥有该矿，并在卡博特市长肯·金凯德（Ken Kincade）领导的几个月内受到了当地社区及其领导层的严厉批评。最初，投诉以普遍的批评为中心，例如潜在矿山的噪音水平和能源消耗。但是，当地领导人去年年底引入了国家安全问题，这最终达到了希尔的法案。

The bill sought to align itself with a broader wave of criticism of miners deploying their rigs close to military facilities in the United States, owing to the outsized influence of Chinese investors in these companies.

该法案试图与对矿工在美国军事设施附近部署钻机的更广泛的批评保持一致，这是由于中国投资者在这些公司中的巨大影响。

Last May, then-president Joe Biden issued an executive order barring Mine One Partners, a BTC miner, from acquiring land in Cheyenne, Wyoming, near the Francis Warren Air Force Base. Mine One is based in the British Virgin Islands but is reportedly owned by Chinese nationals.

去年5月，当时的总统乔·拜登（Joe Biden）发出了一项行政命令，禁止我的一名合伙人（BTC矿工）在弗朗西斯·沃伦（Francis Warren）空军基地附近收购怀俄明州夏安（Cheyenne）的土地。我的一人总部位于英属维尔京群岛，但据报道由中国国民拥有。

In his order, former President Biden stated that the proximity of the operation to a “strategic missile base and key element of America’s nuclear triad, and the presence of specialized and foreign-sourced equipment potentially capable of facilitating surveillance and espionage activities, presents a national security risk to the United States.”

前总统拜登（Biden）在命令下表示，该行动靠近“战略导弹基础和美国核三合会的关键要素”，并且在场的存在可能能够促进监视和间谍活动的专业和外国源设备，提出了一项国家的国家国家美国的安全风险。”

The Arkansas bill sought to evoke similar concerns, with Sen. Hill stating last December, “Why did they pick this facility that’s less than five miles away from our air base? This is a national security concern.”

阿肯色州法案试图引起类似的担忧，希尔参议员去年12月说：“为什么他们选择距离我们的空中基地不到五英里的设施？这是国家安全问题。”

Canadian BTC miner Bitfarms explores AI

加拿大BTC矿工Bitfarms探索了AI

Elsewhere, one of Canada’s largest BTC block reward miners, Bitfarms, is exploring a shift to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. The Toronto-based company announced that it enlisted the services of two consultants—Appleby Strategy Group and World Wide Technology—to conduct a feasibility analysis on its mining sites in Canada and the U.S. and advise on an AI strategy.

在其他地方，加拿大最大的BTC奖励矿工Bitfarms之一正在探索转向人工智能（AI）数据中心。这家总部位于多伦多的公司宣布，它吸引了两名顾问的服务（Appleby Strategy Group和World Wide Technology），以对其在加拿大和美国的采矿场所进行可行性分析，并就AI策略提供建议。

Bitfarms joins dozens of other BTC miners seeking greener pastures in AI due to the ever-reducing revenues from their mining operations since the BTC halving last April. With AI the biggest tech buzzword and with over $3 trillion to be invested in the technology by 2030, the miners are pivoting away from BTC.

Bitfarms与数十名BTC矿工一起在AI中寻求绿色牧场的其他数十名矿工，因为自去年四月BTC减半以来，他们的采矿业务不断减少。 AI是最大的技术流行语，到2030年将投资于该技术超过3万亿美元，矿工将远离BTC。

Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT), Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZW), Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR), Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT), Iris Energy (NASDAQ: IREN), and DMG Blockchain (NASDAQ: DMGGF) are among the miners who now offer data centers to AI clients.

HUT 8（NASDAQ：HUT），核心科学（NASDAQ：CORZW），BITDEER（NASDAQ：BTDR），RIOT平台（Nasdaq：Riot），Iris Energy（Nasdaq：Iren）和DMG区块链（Nasdaq：DMGGF）（Nasdaq：DMGGF）之一现在向AI客户提供数据中心的矿工。

Commenting on the pivot, CEO Ben Gagnon said that the company has been in discussions with AI and high-performance computing (HPC) clients, and “we are confident that our North American portfolio pipeline is strongly suited for HPC/AI.”

首席执行官本·加格农（Ben Gagnon）在评论该枢轴时表示，该公司一直在与AI和高性能计算（HPC）客户进行讨论，并且“我们有信心我们的北美投资组合管道非常适合HPC/AI。”

“The contracts associated with HPC/AI customers provide long-term, steady cash flows and earnings streams while our [BTC] mining operations will continue to monetize [BTC] ‘s flexible upside potential, creating a powerful and resilient portfolio that will generate long-term value for our shareholders.”

“与HPC/AI客户相关的合同提供了长期，稳定的现金流量和收益流，而我们的[BTC]采矿业务将继续使[BTC]的灵活上空潜力获利，从而产生一个强大而有弹性的产品组合，从而产生长期 - 我们股东的期限价值。”

Bitfarms operates 12 mining sites across the U.S., Canada, Argentina and Paraguay. However, it announced a week ago that it had signed an agreement to sell the largest of its three mining sites in Paraguay to rival Hive Digital (TSXV: HIVE). More sales could be due soon in Latin America, with Gagnon revealing that the company intends to have at least 80% of its operations in North America

Bitfarms在美国，加拿大，阿根廷和巴拉圭各地运营12个采矿地点。但是，它一周前宣布已签署了一项协议，将其在巴拉圭的三个采矿地点出售给竞争对手Hive Digital（TSXV：Hive）。拉丁美洲可能很快就会产生更多销售，加格农透露该公司打算在北美至少拥有80％的业务