# Seven Years Dark: Inside Moscow’s Bitcoin Mining Shutdown

Bitcoin miners in Moscow have been ordered to power down their machines — and this is no temporary pause. Crypto mining is barred in the city, the wider Moscow Region and parts of Kursk all the way through Dec. 31, 2032. Seven years of exclusion, in the capital of a nation that generated an estimate

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Source: https://egamers.io/seven-years-dark-inside-moscows-bitcoin-mining-shutdown/