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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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Influx of crypto miners to Kazakhstan reportedly strains energy supply

According to the country's vice minister of energy, addressing the potential strain on Kazakhstan’s power grid from crypto miners “cannot be delayed any longer."

Now responsible for the second-largest contribution to the Bitcoin hash rate, Kazakhstan’s energy grid may be unprepared to handle the addition of many cryptocurrency miners from China and others looking to capitalize on low-cost electricity.

In a Wednesday report from Reuters, government officials in Kazakhstan estimate that unregistered crypto miners in the country could be consuming twice as much power as those registered to avoid paying taxes and other fees. Together, all crypto miners in the country could be using as much as 1.2 gigawatts, or roughly 8% of Kazakhstan's total power generation capacity.

According to Murat Zhurebekov, Kazakhstan's vice minister of energy, addressing the potential strain on the nation’s power grid “cannot be delayed any longer." He said officials planned to issue a directive that would limit the power consumption of unregistered miners but did not specify how exactly they could be located.

Related: Kazakhstan Senate approves legislation regulating crypto service providers

With the exodus of crypto miners following a government crackdown in China, both Kazakhstan and the United States currently stand as countries responsible for the largest contributions to the Bitcoin (BTC) hashing power. Major mining pools, including BTC.com and firms like Canaan, have set up shop across the border.

In June, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed legislation imposing additional taxes on the energy used by crypto miners legally operating in Kazakhstan. The law would reportedly introduce an additional $0.00233 fee per kilowatt-hour, scheduled to take effect starting in January 2022.

According to data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Kazakhstan generated more than 18% of the average monthly hash rate share for the BTC network as of July, with the U.S. contributing more than 35%. Cointelegraph reported in October that some estimates put cryptocurrency mining revenue in Kazakhstan at $1.5 billion over the next five years.

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