https://nebitcoiners.com/bitcoin-miners-equal-treatment-lb526-update/
Nebraska’s LB526 started as a mining tax fight. Now it is part of a bigger question: how should public power handle large new loads? When Nebraska Bitcoiners first wrote about LB526, the concern was simple: the state was considering a targeted electricity tax on cryptocurrency mining. That was the wrong approach. Not because Bitcoin miners should get special treatment. They shouldn’t. But because no lawful industry should be singled out for political punishment simply because lawmakers do not like the business model, do not understand the technology, or think the electricity could be put t
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Nebraska’s LB526 started as a mining tax fight. Now it is part of a bigger question: how should public power handle large new loads? When Nebraska Bitcoiners first wrote about LB526, the concern was simple: the state was considering a targeted electricity tax on cryptocurrency mining. That was the wrong approach. Not because Bitcoin miners should get special treatment. They shouldn’t. But because no lawful industry should be singled out for political punishment simply because lawmakers do not like the business model, do not understand the technology, or think the electricity could be put t
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