With digital currency gaining in popularity worldwide, additional mining operations and farms have started to appear despite looming bans on the practice. Understanding The Ban While many see bans on crypto mining as a hindrance to entrepreneurship and the crypto space, in actuality, it’s an effort to protect and enhance cities, states, and countries’ natural, historic, cultural, and electrical resources. Back in March, a moratorium was enacted in Plattsburgh, New York, the first major U.S. city to pause any and all mining operations due to an operation that had nearly drained the city of its electrical resources, at the expense of the residents who