Crypto Trading and Mining Regulations Must Come in Same Bill, Says Top Russian Politician
The chief architect of Russia’s long-awaited crypto legislation has insisted that crypto trading regulations and new rules about the governance of the crypto mining sector must be addressed in the same bill. And the news could be good for Russian crypto miners – with tax breaks on the cards.
Per the Russian news outlet Finmarket, Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the State Duma’s Financial Markets Committee, told attendees at the recent Kazan Digital Week 2022 forum:
“The issue of legalizing crypto mining should be resolved simultaneously with the legalization of the circulation of cryptocurrencies, since distributed ledgers cannot exist without a mining system.”
Aksakov further claimed that the Russian Ministry of Finance had worked hard to lay the groundwork for the legalization of crypto mining – still a fast-growing sector in Russia.
A number of major energy producers have also lent their support to the proposals. Some players are now piloting projects that involve working with industrial miners at oil drilling sites.
Energy firms have pushed for clearer mining-related regulations. As mining has no legal status, it cannot be classified as a form of industry – which means energy companies have struggled to find ways to charge miners industrial energy tariffs.
Aksakov suggested that miners would likely be charged more for their energy usage under the ministry’s proposals. But he stated that rather than “establishing a single rate for crypto miners at the federal level,” the ministry wanted to “grant rights to the regional authorities.”
He said:
“Local authorities are better informed than the central authorities about the electricity consumption situation in their own areas.”
The Ministry of Finance’s proposals center on the issue of
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