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Good news from Iran :D. In may of this year, the Iranian government placed a ban on crypto mining over concerns of huge electricity consumption and the constant blackouts experienced by the country.


https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/bitcoin-and-other-crypto-mining-banned-in-iran-because-its-high-power-use-makes-it-dirty-money-1807308-2021-05-26 (https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/bitcoin-and-other-crypto-mining-banned-in-iran-because-its-high-power-use-makes-it-dirty-money-1807308-2021-05-26)

True to their word, the ban has been lifted and only licensed miners are allowed to come back online. Unlike China, Iran has embraced crypto mining and since 2020, the crypto mining sector has issued out over 1,000 crypto mining licenses. It is a highly regulated sector. With a projection of providing $1 billion in annual revenue for the country.


https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mining-banned-in-iran-until-september (https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mining-banned-in-iran-until-september)

I believe in no time the country would make it legal for local merchants to accept payments in bitcoin since it is already being use for import payments.

Iran made ban on bitcoin mining after gathering information of mining farms around the country. According to the data it is clear that more than 90% miners were using illegal electricity and without proper licensing. Only 5-10% were doing it in a legal way with proper licensing from the respective authorities. This illegal usage of electricity resulted on the deficit of day to day needs around the country. Now the government might've made required changes and lifted the ban.

Bitcoin is actually really useful for Iran right now, because their own currency is essentially worthless on the world markets due to the sanctions against them. It seems like the Iranian leadership is torn between people using cryptocurrency which helps them ignore internal pressure/repression and their citizens being able to send money back home via the blockchain which will boost the countries overall funds. Iran did actually used to be quite a big player when it came to Bitcoin mining, but I guess it might have picked up a bad reputation within a country that is struggling to keep the power on for average citizens - however it is yet another source of money for the regime.

Besides the pretty good news about Bitcoin adoption, of course it can't be separated from the involvement of supportive government policies. However, I want to know more about how the government in Iran is often associated with Crypto payment transactions for illegal activities such as weapons payments to fund terrorists. I hope that the government can minimize this in the future if mining activities will reopen in the near future.

Well for one it is understandable that the reason why they ban it in the first place is because of the illegal activities miners were doing in the past. Now that they have settled it and possibly made some laws about mining activities then they lifted the ban and made sure that the miners this time should comply with the rules or else they will not be allowed to operate. Iran was just careful about its resources especially it is being antagonized in the west.

There is got to have something they have done or do before lifting the ban. So the government is going to regulate Bitcoin Mining or will the government also join in mining just like El Salvador?

Either, it will be good for the country that is so much affected by sanctions and the recent political disputes. It's time to reclaim back Iran's glory, this country was once very rich. My father use to tell stories about the country when he was there in the 50s.

This ban did not affect the miners who produce their own electricity and are not connected to the grid...

Iran is one the biggest producer of oil in the world and there annual revenue of oil sales is 60 billion USD, I don't know why are they facing shortage of electricity. One possible reason for BTC mining ban may be that Iran government want BTC miners to pay electricity bill of commercial user (like payed by shops and industrial users) not as a domestic user.

this is in accordance with Iran's initial statement which indeed banned bitcoin mining for 4 months because it was constrained by electricity problems and maybe now the electricity problem in Iran can be maximized so it is very natural for people to re-legalize bitcoin mining there.
this is good news again for bitcoin and for iran itself because if you look at crypto, including bitcoin in it, it is very influential and can bring good things to iran at this time, this is not without reason because the currency they use is currently weak and even tend to be less valuable for the global economy because the sanctions imposed on Iran are still in effect.
then indirectly with this will help bring them a little to the good in the economy.

Iran is a middle eastern country that does have a big influence on economic growth. In line with the pretty good things, they are starting to lift the ban and will start operating indicating that there is an arrangement to re-take over the position as a sovereign country over the economic industry, especially adding crypto in it.

As with my current opinion, we still find that there is a ban on every exchange allowing Iran to transact crypto. To complete the country blocking, confirmation from the government is needed so that it can also lift Iran's restrictions on exchange.

Iran never meant to ban Bitcoin mining permanently, especially knowing that they use Bitcoin as one of the assets for trading around sanctions imposed by many countries around the world.
They use energy mostly from Oil and Natural Gas, and they usually have increased electricity spending during summer months, and one more interesting thing is that most miners in Iran are actually coming from China.

Any government would definitely do the same which it is understandable that they would really be making out such step whenever there are illegal activities or something that violates out.
Government could impose such ban and its no surprise that Bitcoin mining was included into it but for sure they had already realized something on thats why they had lifted out the ban.
This would be a good example in showing off that there would be specific consequences when you do violate something but well this is just  those typical government
kind of decision making.

I will be waiting for export-import transactions using cryptocurrency I think it will cost less than bank service. Many countries ban Bitcoin but usually it is just temporary, even china maybe the government will lift the ban after electricity crisis end. I heard china have a problem with electricity. I think I can expect Iran become good environment for cryptocurrency users.

Reduced rain (reduced hydroelectric production), Sanctions (preventing maintenance of some fossil fuel power plants), Increase in electricity export (https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/448006/Annual-electricity-exports-to-neighbors-up-27) to neighbor countries such as Iraq, and finally a couple of incidents that caused sudden drop in production including some cases of sabotage (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/23/sabotage-attack-on-nuclear-building-foiled-iranian-media) and terrorist attack (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-natanz.html) against Iranian infrastructure which shifted focus on the power grid.

I should add that the electricity issues began in 2020 for a short duration and the biggest issue was about 2 months in 2021 during summer and they have all been resolved already.

It wasn't exactly a ban, it was more like a "pause" to reduce the electricity usage as the production dropped and natural usage during summer increased. I also believe that the evidence suggest that most mining farms didn't stop mining and the news about the ban was mainly a show.

I kinda sense that this might not be due to electricity, that's just an excuse. The Iranian government saw that crypto could be a good option for them to, in some sense, bypass the almighty dollar, and took this opportunity to get some control over what's going on. It might not seem much, but these all are steps towards a more centralized crypto ecosystem.

to be honest is better that crypto is taxed/good regulated, why? because when miner or crypto trader taxed there's income to government and ban most likely will be lifted or crypto become legal

but this just my opinion tho :)

I agree with this because at least, that can be a win-win solution for both sides.
The miner can still mine any coins while the government can get tax from the miners.
When both sides feel satisfied and have no complaint from the miner about the tax, the crypto can grow in that country and more miners will start mining.
People who use crypto will not have to be afraid to use crypto as their government accepts crypto, which is good progress for their country.

It's good that the ban was lifted, but what does it mean that only licensed miners can come back to their activities? I mean, what are the tax implications, does the license cost anything and what other requirements they must go through? I think it's important to know the details because if the regulations are tough, it might be that mining is effectively out of reach, but only formally allowed to come back. Paying the electricity bills and some reasonable taxes is one thing, but obtaining a license, establishing headquarters and reporting regularly to the authorities would be very different.

There was complete blackout in some major cities for few days back in that time due to shortage of electricity due to the reasons you have mentioned and they have said that it will be temporary ban of approximately 90 days and still the legal miners were banned to mine bitcoin as they were using excessive electricity but those who were not under the radar keep on mining illegally or say at hidden places.But now all the mining works are back to work as the ban is lifted now.

In the span of 4 months, the Government of Iran might've probably made several changes, due to shortage of electricity, they had to implement the ban even on those miners who are legally operating, but since the ban is now lifted, I think that everything will be back to normal and these illegal miners cannot operate anymore.

The government would need to make changes ofcourse if people are not going to work according to rules and regulations since at the end it might affect the whole country.

You cannot expect some of them to follow the rules without any secure system in place that's why it's much needed to not only let cryptocurrencies get integrated in the whole system but at the same time, it's necessary to not let it affect the general public perse.

It's all about healthy regulations.
If the government would have not lifted the ban it might have been problematic for people, but they did do it, which was beneficial, now the companies would not be just able to mine but they won't have to hide anymore. The probelm would be *small individual miners*, they might have a probelm tackling the system, undoubtedly the government needs to look at their concerns as well.

License is always expensive for most people, therefore they generally choose to do it illegally, therefore this time, they might have to be a little lenient with the requirements as well. It would only work when both people and government come together.

I think the iranian government hasn't accepted  Bitcoin mining, but have deliberated about the ban they placed and how it has made them looked in the face of a changing digital world, I think the next thing is to remove the ban and place a requirement to mining of Bitcoin, I really wonder how hard it would be to actually get the said license to be allowed to mine Bitcoin in iran, many miners won't really buy the idea of getting licensed some want to remain an anonymous Miner, so the numbers of bitcoin miners in Iran are cut.

That's exactly the way it is in Venezuela, and they made sure its very hard and expensive to obtain. This of course promotes corruption and many miners just try to hide. That happens when a country discriminates Bitcoin mining, rather than treat it like any other industrial activity, they feel they have to tax it way above the others. Which of course makes the place less attractive than other countries, so its only locals who have to deal with this nightmare and be under constant threat and surveillance from the State. It is common for corrupt authorities here to extort and even kidnap and ransom your people so you are forced pay them to keep "quiet" about your activities, and you can guess where that leads.

That also means that the naive attitude of certain pool operators refusing to upgrade from the clear text stratum protocol is unacceptable. But what do they care, its not like THEY risk their lives or anything...

This is of course a new problem that is sure to happen.
and when it comes to the thread that you created, I think it will be very difficult to sort out the miners because it is certain that these miners will not be the same in the mining they do.
even if there is a license that supports the activity, this kind of thing must have specifications because again the mining carried out will definitely be different because the results of mining companies or groups will be different from the results of individual mining.
and this must be resolved immediately before it spreads everywhere.
not without reason, even if there are specifications and there are licenses that make the difference in mining in iran, but of course there are people who will use options that are prohibited by applicable regulations and this will definitely happen for some people.

I'm aware of this news before and they've said that it's just temporary so they really have to lift that after the timeline that they've set. No need to compare with China, these two countries have their own different view about bitcoin.
China will just continue to have those FUD so that they have a stack as much as they can. It might be a secret for most but we have that typical feeling that whenever a FUD starts to come out from there, they have to stack.

This is also good news but Iran never supports Bitcoin as payment or currency.
However, I don't know what the OP see before she believe in what she read from Cointelegraph by saying Iran will make Bitcoin legal for local merchants to accept it as payments, and the rules and regulations of countries like Iran I doubt this will happen.

This is a pleasure news to hear, these days I myself kinda bored heard FUD news about china this, china that, and so forth. Nevertheless I don't think by lifted bitcoin mining ban regulation Iran would likely accept bitcoin as a currency later, both are different things which wouldn't always walk along as united.

Good news again, maybe the temporary ban was just to make the right policy on how to regulate the crypto mining business in the country. Seems they found the way already and they realized it's a great opportunity for the government to make money as income will continue to flow through taxes if people are profitable with their business.

That was a short ban only unlike China that which may be forever, so let's consider this big news for the crypto space.

this made me question the following:

if the government of Iran had suspended the miners for a few months, would these miners sit for a few months waiting to be allowed to return to mining or did they look for other countries where they could mine more freely?

If I had a mining business in Iran, I wouldn't spend months waiting for the government to authorize mining again, I would go to another country. so i think miners should not stay in unstable countries like iran, china and other countries.

Well it is indeed good news to them even though it is only for mining bu8t we hope soon they will legalize cryptocurrency mining and using it in merchant and trading as well. Perhpas by this October, we again experience a huge effect on the price of the crypto market, possible there will be a bull run. I hope there are too my good news will come so that bitcoin itself will increase the price altogether with the altcoins.
However, I hope this healthy regulation of crypto will lead us to a successful day, if all governments like this, there should be no pump at all.

What makes them stopping to legalize mining is due to illegal mining activities and they need to control it first before finally making it legal. This has been a common problem in other countries as there are people wanted to make their mining out listed just for sake of saving some fees. This kind of activity making a cause why the authorities need to stop them and seriously affecting the entire community.
Banning is a temporary solution but having a law in regards to legal mining is for the long-term, and that they need to do.

That's a good move by the government then. I like the fact that they did completely scrapped up the Bitcoin mining activities from happening in their country even though I think it would be censored but it's still a good effort from the government because it would help to boost their economy a bit even though the difference won't be much but it's honest work.

Well the reason is not really because of the Cryptocurrency itself but because of the illegal activities. I think once Iran see the potential of cryptocurrency in the long run they might be persuaded to join the Bitcoin frenzy like El Salvador. But I think the Persians has already been doing crypto for a long time now and it is not being banned in their country, so that is already good news on its own. Let's see what will happen in the next few years.

Honestly, they need to reconsider lifting the ban and focus on making some positive development to use bitcoins for their economic growth. Iran's case is different than China where they still have some good thoughts about bitcoins. If those miners will just pay attention and use every necessary thing to be able to mine bitcoins without problems, then the government might consider them to mine freely and bitcoins will once again stay neutral in Iran.

This all happened because they had checked all the bitcoin mining done in their country, and currently illegal users cannot use the power grid and those who already have a license will be allowed back to use the crypto network, and Iran lifted this ban has a strong reason because they know that with crypto users in the country then they can get a very large profit and can increase their country's income, And now they have arranged all sectors to avoid the loss of their country.

No options left when they realize Bitcoin couldn't be stopped, they have to lift the ban. US nor China couldn't stop crypto.

Iran's government can do what El Salvador did if they really want to survive the catastrophic effect of the current crisis. They still could live with their currency but having a lightning network of their own just like Chivo of El Salvador, they can run their economy and also start mining BTC. Or they could just tax the companies running mining farms.

Nothing to rejoice here. What about the huge losses suffered by the miners during the last 4 months? Who is going to reimburse them? Iran proved itself to be a very unreliable country for the cryptocurrency mining industry. For now, the ban on mining has been lifted. But we don't know when it will be imposed again. What the mining industry doesn't need is such unpredictability. And I don't really understand how there can be a power shortage in Iran. They are among the largest producers of oil and natural gas. A large part of the natural gas is just flared and wasted. Why can't they use it for electricity production? 

The power was rerouted from elsewhere and the power outage didn't last more than a couple of hours as far as I remember. It definitely wasn't "few days of complete blackout".

License in Iran doesn't have the "western" meaning to it. It is so much easier to get and it practically costs nothing apart from basically the cost of paper work. According to law it can not exceed about $3.5 and that is not expensive for anyone at all!

You can't just pack up a big mining farm and migrate!
Besides as I said before I have reasons to believe this was for show, miners never stopped mining. Additionally bitcoin entered Iran's budget to be used for import/export, they won't just stop mining for a couple of months missing out on about $500 million revenue.

I think that is a form of regulation that they implement for the miners so no illegal miners will use the power for their own benefits. That is good for the miners. They can still rerun their mines without being afraid of the government because they already know they do not try to break their law. Maybe after this, there will be other regulations for people who use crypto but hopefully, the regulations will not be too difficult to follow.

This is further proof that you can't ban Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies in general. If Iran can't do it, even though it's a quasi-dictatorship and has great control over the local Internet, then large open countries like those in the West won't be able to do it. This should be clear by now to everyone who constantly puts the argument on the table that Bitcoin won't be worth anything anymore once it gets banned.

Just to be clear, Iran never imposed those restrictions, uncle Sam did + there are still a few foreign exchanges out there that allow Iranians to use their platforms.

I have to respectfully disagree ^{[to an extent]} with the latter part. Although they've significantly lowered the power outages in some places, there are still some places that experience it regularly.

This! Those with close ties with the government never stopped ^{[regardless of what the media says]}.

I'm not sure about its exact cost & requirements, but those with licenses have to pay a slightly higher electricity rate than what normal consumers pay.

This makes much more sense on their move to prohibit mining in Iran. I was surprised by this move especially that mining brings revenue to the government in return.

With the reason that 90% of the miners get their energy/electricity illegally, it is obvious that the government would have to pass an prohibitive suspension on mining. But with its move in lifting the ban, this may attract more miners in return which would contribute to the overall price of BTC in the market.

There were already lots of topics here on the forum where people were talking about the electricity consumption of bitcoin mining, not in Iran but in other countries all over the world, the whole point regarding electricity consumption is miners are not consuming more electrical power than the banks when they print the useless paper money. However, I was really trending especially during the last weeks and in my own idea, the miners can replace the traditional electricity power with solars cells. But still, this can be normal to see the increase in power consumption in the middle of summer and miners are not guilty of this story.

it probably goes back to the main problem iran faced a few months ago which is their electricity supply is running low and when this is implemented actually i don't think it will be difficult to get a license like you said.
but the problem is that electricity supply remains an obstacle when many miners both in individuals and groups make Iran think hard about this.
but this becomes like an overlap between one another, apart from that, I think there are consequences that cannot be changed when making a policy.

Knew that this was going to be gone someday, the ban back then was abrupt and like any other bans before that's against bitcoin, this one isn't any different than that other than their durations. It's not big of a deal though that Iran lifted the ban, not many talks about it.

Iran is one the biggest producer of oil in the world and there annual revenue of oil sales is 60 billion USD, I don't know why are they facing shortage of electricity. One possible reason for BTC mining ban may be that Iran government want BTC miners to pay electricity bill of commercial user (like payed by shops and industrial users) not as a domestic user.
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Exactly, they do not want the operators to gain profit without paying the right amount. Addition, I think that they don't face electricity shortage rather they want to maximize the production of electricity without loss. So in order to do that they regulate and studied the electricity consumption of miners and the result is clear that they are just normal consumers at all.

This is indeed a piece of nice news most especially to the users of bitcoin in Iran.

The unauthorized mining is what pushed their government to ban mining because of high electricity consumption. I can't blame them though because unauthorized mining even consumes way lot more power than those legal ones permitted by the state making the state's natural resources suffer. It's understandable in my opinion because the Iranian government just thinks of what is best for their country's welfare. I really just hope there would be no more people abusing it now that the ban has been lifted so that the authorized ones can return to be fully operational.

This ban lifting is timely because I think bitcoin can help their economy to bounce back now that their local currency is on a rough patch. Hopefully, they'll soon adopt it as one of their legal tenders as well like what El Salvador did. And hopefully, they have found alternative ways (eco-friendly) to generate power to make electricity. This can help them minimize the energy consumption that comes from their non-renewable resources making it more cost efficient in the long run.

The reason behind the ban was to force the people that were using it illegibly by exploiting electricity and making huge amounts of money and not paying any taxes, and this lift came with some laws by making sure that the government can get in on this and make some profit from this industry as well, since it has a huge revenue by imposing taxes and issuing licensees, and i believe that every country is going to be doing the same because it is clearly that they are not able to stop the crypto progress so they will be joining it.

Iran legalized crypto mining in 2019 and started taxing the sector, thereby helping to offset the country's huge electricity subsidy. A year later, the country asked crypto miners to sell their Bitcoin rewards to the Central Bank of Iran. Iran has suspended BTC mining for four months. Due to high temperatures and energy shortages, the country's electricity grid was on fire, and President Hassan Rouhani issued a temporary ban.
Although Iran ranks in the top 5 for cheap electricity due to its large oil and natural gas reserves, this year's power outages only show that the country's national grid is not suitable for high electricity demand.

Cryptocurrency has come to stay. As other countries are not adopting, the remaining nations will be forced to do so. They are not the only nation that banned it but later reverse it. Cryptocurrency is the future of finance.

That is always expected. Never understand why would any country put a ban on mining. I am sure china will unban crypto soon. When you start to hear all types of good news from every where it is a sign the bitcoin is going to rally up. Bitcoin final bull run is just around the corner.  ;)

Iran surely be aware that ban bitcoin will only waste opportunities...

iran is not like china which has a strong economy, if they want to get big tax money then giving rules to miners is a good thing. not impossible in the next few years they will make bitcoin as a legal tender too. I am very positive about the potential of cryptocurrencies in the future.

It is strange to hear that you need to take a license to mine Bitcoin and the projected revenue is really attractive and what i would like to know is how much money you need to pay to get the mining license and how much percentage you have to give the government for every block you mine. I cannot find these details anywhere, so if we could know those details then it would be great.

I wont be surprised if Iran starts accepting Bitcoin as a legal tender because they are giving out licenses and they needs to encourage everyone to start using them and they will be looking to overcome the trade sanctions imposed upon by US and other countries, so i wont be surprised if they starts accepting Bitcoin.

Lifting ban from mining is very good decision from Iranian authorities because after having all assessments now they are feeling it's okay for them currently they are under sanction's so most chances in near future we will have some good news from here as they are also working on bitcoin and crypto and allowing their peoples for use this and adopt this because recently as few countries already having good benefits from this now it's time for them try and have good benefits.

Even Iranian economy is not strong as China but still they are one of big countries in fuel industry and this change can bring them some good revenue.

When the government decides to start working with cryptocurrency companies such as mining companies, they are going to be benefiting from it and it will help the country’s economy really well. But, some countries don’t look at the bright side at all, they just rush and banned Bitcoin without even looking at how It is going to benefit the country and its economy.

Countries like China are one of those countries that are always pushing against Bitcoin and not considering how good it can be for them. Although I do understand that they now have their own central bank distributed digital currency, so they’ll be doing anything possible to make their own cryptocurrency to stay at the top and have more usage in the country.

China is a country that have everything of their own. They always stand away from the rest of the world. Starting from the search engine to the payment gateways, they prefer everything developed specifically for them. From the beginning there is opposition from China, but to some extent it is the country that helped with the growth of bitcoin.

Without any plan China won't make such a decision to ban bitcoin. There should be something positive and highly benefiting them than bitcoin mining and usage. Until now the restrictions weren't made big as few countries that imposed imprisonment over persons using bitcoin.

The reason why some countries come out with outright ban is because they think that cryptocurrencies will be a direct competitor with their fiat currency and the government usually controls its citizen by controlling the financial sector and Bitcoin being a decentralized currency they will not be having complete control over their citizens and so is the reason they implement a complete ban.

As mentioned above, China wants to control their citizen and hence they are banning other cryptocurrencies and coming out with their centralized coin. The difference with centralized coin is that they will have more control over the transactions.

I said it in previous page, it costs about $3.5 to get the license.
As for the other point, I haven't found anything in the law saying you have to give what you mine to the government. There is just a predefined tax which is a percentage of what you earn.

There is also another thing to know about foreign investors which is to prevent abuse and currency exiting country. I'm not sure about the details but basically it prevents a foreign investor to build a mining farm in Iran, use the cheap electricity and then take all the bitcoins they mine out of the country. Which is something that used to happen before they cracked down on miners, and some of the seized miners were due to this abuse.

China is making bitcoin usage as hard as they can simply because they want to force people to use their bankster coin (a centralized cryptocurrency). Otherwise Iran also has its own everything, from different industries to search engines, social media and even a domestic internet known as National Internet (can function using all domestic infrastructure and provide nationwide connectivity), ... but none of it has ever been a reason to prevent bitcoin growth in Iran.

That may be the main reason why the ban was being lifted because the government sees the opportunity that they now tracking and knowing what illegal can make in this mining activities .
and they are on top of it.
Nope there are nothing can force other country to adopt crypto , instead they will lead being behind if they don't follow the trend .

Basically it seems that I have missed the news about when they placed a ban on the bitcoin mining. But what was the cause of the blackouts they were experiencing, was it because of bitcoin mining? Or they just believed that it must have contributed to whatever the case may be that resulted to them having black out? Alright it is quite good that they have now decided to consider bitcoin mining again and allow companies to get back to their mining business.

Imagine a lot of businesses that would have been affected after they placed a ban on the mining of cryptocurrency. I think other countries that banned crypto mining should consider doing the same in the case of cryptocurrency mining, it’s going to be good if they work with these companies and maybe regulate in a way so that it wouldn’t affect the country.

It's more of a convenient scapegoat for the Iranian government to blame for economic mismanagement. If they can say "it's these nasty and selfish blockchain miners" it beats saying "we don't have a solid plan for energy independence even though we are sitting on large oil reserves in this country". Sanctions against Iran make it difficult for them to produce certain needs for their own energy, but we now see that money has trumped that and these miners are bringing in a strong flow of foreign currency that they struggle to produce. Most likely their oil reserves have been topped up and the energy grid situation has stabilized enough that the benefits outweigh the negatives.

Bitcoin mining and its energy requirements have been a talk on the rise and made many headlines ever since Elon Musk brought it up haven't inaugurated it with Tesla previously. Its not a thing of wonder for Iran to have looked into the sector on that cause and attribute most of its electrical supply instability to bitcoin as well as, search for means to better taxe miners, seeing the potential it could bring on the economy. Especially with the fact that, the Iranian currency is of relatively low value.

It's a good thing they've lifted the ban and its also a pointer to other nations, especially nations where bitcoin mining are carried out and nations with low economy to research on means to utilise the field for its benefits.

As we may guess members in this forum do not like the idea of any part of the bitcoin ecosystem being banned anywhere, but they had a point, if miners want to mine then they need to pay for the electricity they consume, that is completely fair and that is something we all do, so why miners should be exempt of this?

I am glad the temporary ban has ended and they are allowing legitimate miners to come back online, after all if they are regulated and they are paying all their taxes then they should be left to their own devices, also this will help a country like Iran which is in bad economic shape due to all the sanctions they are facing from the international community.

Reserving the mining for authorized miners will regulate the electricity consumption many unauthorized miners would want to abuse the privilege and would consume more electricity due to greed and selfish wills. This is just the news we need to hear more often hope china would follow suit in not long a time

Is that 300 megawatts for daily, monthly, yearly electricity consumption for Cryptocurrency miners?  And it's important to note that he is referring to multiple cryptocurrencies and not just Bitcoin.
Well, if miners were not too clustered at few locations, the amount of energy won't be that obvious. Is something wrong with this model? We will know for sure in the future