Crypto miner backs US senator’s efforts to incentivize using flared gas

Texas Senator Ted Cruz proposed a bill aimed at incentivizing crypto miners to use flared gas for energy generation in the state.

In an April 1 notice, Cruz said he had introduced the Facilitate Lower Atmospheric Released Emissions, or FLARE, Act in the US Senate, aiming to make Texas “the number one place for Bitcoin mining.” Mining advocacy group Digital Power Network supported the bill, and Bitcoin (BTC) miner MARA Holdings endorsed the proposed legislation on X, claiming it would…