It appears in a answer from Energy Minister Terje Aasland (Ap) to the Storting, writes NRK. The answer is from October.
– I believe the establishment of a crypto data center in Norway is unfortunate, and the government will therefore limit the extraction of cryptocurrency as much as possible, Aasland wrote then.
Crypto mining is an example of a type of business we do not want in Norway, according to him.
– That is why we are in the process of sorting out the possibilities for limiting this type of business, including a ban, he said
Digitization Minister Karianne Tung (Ap) said VG in April that she wanted to “Close the door” to cryptocurrency with a new bill, but the bill that was put forward contained no licensing requirements or other mechanisms that prevented cryptomining in Norway, according to NRK.
The government was then criticized by Lars Haltbrekken (SV) in the energy and environment committee for having misled the people when they signaled a crypto ban. SV expressed that the ban neither exists nor is coming, according to NRK.
Karianne Tung then replied that the closing of the door was not part of a new law, but that it was the first step in a goal to ban cryptomining, writes the channel.
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