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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Canadian Bitcoin mining firm Link Global faces $5.6M penalty

Link Global has received an extension to Oct. 14, 2021, as the deadline for filing its response to the action.

Link Global Technologies, a Bitcoin (BTC) mining company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, is facing major potential penalties for operating unauthorized power plants in the province of Alberta.

The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC), the province’s power utility regulator, issued Sept. 24 another enforcement submission against Link Global, with enforcement staff recommending several penalties for violations of Alberta’s legislative requirements.

According to a document shared with Cointelegraph, the AUC’s enforcement staff recommended that Link Global should pay an economic disgorgement of about 2 million Canadian dollars (CAD) ($1.6 million) for financial gains from the unlawful electricity generation.

The regulator is seeking over 5 million CAD ($4 million) from Link Global’s Bitcoin mining operations, based on the AUC’s calculations of Link Global’s alleged gross economic benefit for two plants. Additionally, the AUC is seeking an additional 81,000 CAD ($64,000) in two administrative penalties.

According to the document, the AUC estimated Link Global’s economic benefit based on the “more conservative generation rate of 1.2 Bitcoins per day” and “the more conservative of 95,000 TH of computing power versus 10 MW.” The authority noted that Link Global’s revenue source is mainly based on hosting or selling electricity to third-party digital asset miners, “with a smaller proportion of revenue coming from self-mining activities.”

“The enforcement staff report and recommendations are only part of the information that will be assessed and considered by the AUC tribunal panel of Commission members,” a spokesperson for the AUC told Cointelegraph. Link Global has received an extension to Oct. 14, 2021, as the deadline for filing its response. “All of this information will be considered at an oral hearing before a final ruling is issued. The date of this hearing has not yet been scheduled,” the representative said.

Following the AUC’s submission, Link Global CEO Stephen Jenkins subsequently issued a statement on Sept. 30, stating that the company has acknowledged wrongdoing and has been working hard to rectify mistakes:

“Our business works to respect the laws, the people and the environment, and we believe that our submission to the AUC will make this apparent. [...] I apologize to our shareholders who do not deserve this. We will work tirelessly to ensure the outcome is positive.”

Related: Bitcoin mining difficulty surges 31% since July

Link Global did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.

If applied, the disgorgement would mark only the second disgorgement penalty the AUC had ever levied after approving a 56 million CAD settlement for electricity power generator TransAlta Corporation back in 2015.

As previously reported, the AUC initially asked Link Global to shut down operations in late August after local residents complained about noise from a nearby power plant.

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