Federal Fiscal Service: More than 500 miners legalized their activities

“The registration of people involving digital currency mines including 518 miners and 91 operators in the Mining Infrastructure Operators Registry,” said the Federal Fiscal Service. They added that the inclusion in the lists is carried out in an electronic application through the Mining Registration Service on the regulator’s website.

Context. The extraction of cryptocurrencies is allowed in Russia by Law No. 221-FZ of November 1, 2024. According to him, only a legal entity and individual businessmen (individual businessmen) included in the registry can be extracted in the cryptocurrency. The evils are entitled at minute, but for them a limit for electricity consumption is established: 6 thousand kW/h per month.

All miners (individuals, legal entities and individual businessmen) must inform monthly about the volume of cryptocurrencies extracted through a special section in their personal accounts on the FTS website. “The inclusion in these records, as well as the presentation of reports on the steamed digital currency, will allow miners to carry out activities,” the department explained.

• On February 21, MTS introduced statistics on the number of mining farms in Russia, according to which in January 2025 there were more than 136 thousand farms in the country, its number of years for the year was 7%. Most of the farms were identified in the Irkutsk region, Moscow, the Moscow region, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Samara region.