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Published on July 10, 2024 19:21 GMT+00:00edited on July 10, 2024 19:24 GMT+00:00

The Department of Energy is once again working to develop a survey seeking information related to proof-of-work crypto mining’s energy use in the U.S., about four months after getting sued in a Texas court for trying to force through an "emergency collection of data request."

On Wednesday, the Energy Information Administration, the DoE's statistics wing, hosted the first in what it hopes will be a series of public conversations about designing a better survey. Steve Harvey of the EIA led the discussion. 

In late February, the Texas Blockchain Council and Bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms successfully sued the Department of Energy for its “targeted misuse of government emergency authority” after sending around a multi-page survey asking Bitcoin miners around the country about …