{"id":16431,"date":"2021-05-19T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci0283800320012568"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:00:02","slug":"mongolia-sets-up-bitcoin-mining-hotline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/mongolia-sets-up-bitcoin-mining-hotline","title":{"rendered":"Inner Mongolia Establishes Hotline To Report Illegal Bitcoin Mining Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/fgw.nmg.gov.cn\/xxgk\/zxzx\/tzgg\/202105\/t20210518_1502529.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> published yesterday, the The Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission (DRC) revealed that it has set up a hotline for reporting illegal Bitcoin mining operations taking place in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement listed an in-person address, telephone number and email that people can use to report the operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe autonomous region\u2019s energy consumption \u2026 emergency headquarters office has specially set up a virtual currency \u2018mining\u2019 enterprise reporting platform,\u201d per a translation of the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>According to this announcement, the complete shutdown and criminalization of unauthorized Bitcoin mining is part of a five-year energy consumption plan. It is seeking reports on mining companies, mining companies posing as data centers, mining companies providing \u201csite leasing\u201d and companies that obtain power through \u201cillegal means\u201d and \u201cengage in virtual currency \u2018mining\u2019 business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inner Mongolia is one of China&#8217;s biggest regions, with a land mass of over 1 million square kilometers. The region i<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/05\/02\/bitcoin-mining-hashrate-china-inner-mongolia-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mposed a ban on bitcoin mining in March<\/a> over purported concerns about pollution, giving miners until this month to cease operations. Up to that point, it had contributed an estimated 8% of total global hash rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inner Mongolia, which recently banned bitcoin mining, has established a hotline for reporting illegal operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3281,"featured_media":16162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[189,3026,219],"class_list":{"0":"post-16431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bitcoin-mining","9":"tag-inner-mongolia","10":"tag-regulation"},"author_data":{"id":3281,"name":"Ahyke Otutubuike","nicename":"ahyke-otutubuike","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ahyke-otutubuike-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/iranian-government-seizes-bitcoin-mining-operations.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}