俄罗斯将禁止冬季区块奖励挖矿以解决电力短缺问题

如果政府委员会的新提案得到实施，俄罗斯将在 2031 年之前禁止每年冬季进行区块奖励挖矿，以解决十几个地区的电力短缺问题。

Russia is planning to ban block reward cryptocurrency mining during the winter season each year until 2031 in over a dozen regions to address electricity shortages, according to new proposals from a government commission.

根据政府委员会的新提案，俄罗斯计划在 2031 年之前禁止每年冬季在十多个地区进行区块奖励加密货币挖矿，以解决电力短缺问题。

The commission, led by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, was set up to find solutions to electricity shortages as the winter season sets in. In its recent meeting, the commission proposed the ban in regions historically struggling to provide sufficient electricity to heat residents’ homes during the brutal winters.

该委员会由副总理亚历山大·诺瓦克（Alexander Novak）领导，成立的目的是寻找冬季到来时电力短缺的解决方案。在最近的会议上，该委员会提议在历史上难以提供足够电力为居民家庭供暖的地区实施这项禁令。在严酷的冬天。

The ban would affect some of Russia’s key block reward mining regions, including Irkutsk and parts of the expansive northern region of Siberia. It would also extend to Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson, and Luhansk, which Russia annexed from Ukraine two years ago.

该禁令将影响俄罗斯一些关键的区块奖励矿区，包括伊尔库茨克和西伯利亚北部广阔地区的部分地区。它还将扩展到扎波罗热、顿涅茨克、赫尔松和卢甘斯克，这些地区是俄罗斯两年前从乌克兰吞并的。

In Siberia, the ban would commence on December 1 and run to March 15, 2025. In every subsequent year up to 2031, the ban would be from November 15 to March 15. In the other regions, the ban would be from December to the end of March.

在西伯利亚，禁令将从12月1日开始，持续到2025年3月15日。在2031年之前的每一年，禁令将从11月15日到3月15日。在其他地区，禁令将从12月到2025年3月15日。三月底。

The commission tasked the Ministry of Energy and energy companies to work out the details of the proposed ban. They must ensure that the electricity saved by the miners goes to households that need it most. However, sources told the local newspaper Kommersant that no official communication had been made with local governments to enforce the seasonal bans.

该委员会责成能源部和能源公司制定拟议禁令的细节。他们必须确保矿工节省的电力流向最需要的家庭。然而，消息人士告诉当地报纸《生意人报》，尚未与当地政府就执行季节性禁令进行正式沟通。

The commission also explored other solutions, including building new electricity generation facilities that are projected to produce 1.9 GW of electricity by 2026. While still considering such solutions, commission members opined that more immediate measures are required, and the mining ban is an easy fix in the short term.

该委员会还探讨了其他解决方案，包括建设新的发电设施，预计到 2026 年发电量为 1.9 吉瓦。在仍在考虑此类解决方案的同时，委员会成员认为需要采取更直接的措施，而采矿禁令是一个简单的解决方案。短期内。

The commission clarified that it is not pushing miners out of Russia. Instead, it directed the affected miners to relocate to other regions in the south with excess electricity. However, miners have favored the north and eastern regions, as their very low temperatures drastically lower cooling costs.

该委员会澄清称，它不会将矿商赶出俄罗斯。相反，它指示受影响的矿工搬迁到电力过剩的南方其他地区。然而，矿工们更青睐北部和东部地区，因为它们的气温非常低，冷却成本大大降低。

Still, the miners believe the ban will punish the legitimate and regulated miners and allow illegal operations to thrive.

尽管如此，矿工们仍然认为，该禁令将惩罚合法且受监管的矿工，并允许非法作业蓬勃发展。

“A ban on industrial miners who have all the necessary permits to connect to power grids will provoke the activity of unscrupulous market participants who carry out their activities in violation of all established standards,” commented Sergey Bezdelov, the director of the Industrial Mining Association.

工业采矿协会会长谢尔盖·别兹德洛夫表示：“禁止拥有所有必要许可证连接电网的工业采矿者将激起不择手段的市场参与者的活动，他们的活动违反了所有既定标准。”

Citing a study from Moscow’s HSE University, Bezdelov added that the cost of relocating miners to another region would be twice as high as building new electricity generation infrastructure.

Bezdelov 援引莫斯科 HSE 大学的一项研究补充说，将矿工转移到另一个地区的成本将是建设新发电基础设施的两倍。