Illegal cryptocurrency miners will be imprisoned

State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi threatened to imprison cryptocurrency miners for illegally connecting toelectrical networks. Lenta reports this.

According to him, in the event that mining is recognized as a legal type of activity, electric retail organizations must organize the issuance of permits for the connection of energy-intensive equipment.

“If [miners] are denied, but they still connect, then they will be violating both the administrative and criminal codes. Illegal miners will have to be planted ", - said Lugovoi.

As an additional regulatory measure, the deputy proposed to impose income tax on the mining of cryptocurrencies.

“They produced bitcoin - then they look at what rate, calculate how much electricity they spent, what other costs they incurred (for salaries and other payments). Subtract it all - you get a profit "- he added.

In November, representatives of several ministries of the Russian Federation supported the initiative to recognize mining as a type of entrepreneurial activity.

The head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, proposed to separately prescribe the procedure for taxation of individuals and legal entities involved in the mining of cryptocurrencies.

The Ministry of Energy, in turn, ruled out the application of a preferential tariff for Bitcoin miners. So far, regions have to seek recalculations through the courts.

Previously, experts calculated that because of miners, household electricity consumption in a number of regions of the Russian Federation could already increase by 2.5 times this year.

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Rating of cryptocurrency exchanges:

#	Exchange:	Website:	Rating:
1	Binance (Editor's Choice)	https://binance.com	9.7
2	Huobi	https://huobi.com	7.4
3	Exmo	https://exmo.me	6.9
4	OKEx	https://okex.com	6.5
5	Bybit	https://bybit.com	6.3

The criteria by which the rating is set in our rating of crypto-exchanges:

• Work reliability— stability of access to all functions of the platform, including uninterrupted trading, deposits and withdrawals of funds, as well as the duration of the market and daily trading volume.
• Commissions– the amount of commission for trading operations within the platform and withdrawal of assets.
• Additional features and services— futures, options, staking, NFT marketplace.
• Feedback and support– we analyze user reviews and the quality of technical support.
• Convenience of the interface– we evaluate the functionality and intuitiveness of the interface, possible errors and failures when working with the exchange.
• final grade– the average number of points for all indicators determines the place in the ranking.

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