US energy data agency to temporarily suspend bitcoin miner survey after lawsuit

 

Texas Blockchain Council's lawsuit successfully stops the Biden administration from government data collection on Bitcoin miners.

*Texas Blockchain Council Lawsuit Against Biden Administration*

The Texas Blockchain Council, along with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms, has successfully halted the Biden administration's government data collection on Bitcoin miners. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has agreed to temporarily suspend its emergency survey of energy use by cryptocurrency miners and will sequester the data it had already received after it began collecting information from bitcoin miners on Feb. 5. This decision comes after the Texas Blockchain Council and Riot Platforms sued the Biden administration, seeking to block the survey, which they argued could harm businesses by forcing them to divulge confidential and sensitive information [𝟏].

*Destruction of Collected Data*

As a result of the lawsuit, the U.S. Government has agreed to destroy all data it had gathered on Bitcoin mining. The lawsuit not only stopped the data collection but also forced the government to delete all gathered data thus far [𝟐].

This legal victory for the Texas Blockchain Council and Riot Platforms marks a significant development in the ongoing debate surrounding the government's data collection efforts on Bitcoin miners.

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