The company and residents of Vietnam ceased to import equipment for mining in accordance with the decree of the Ministry of Finance. The decree of the Ministry supported the Central Bank of Vietnam. About it reports the local edition of Viet Nam News.
The first reports that the Finance Ministry wants to ban the import of equipment for mining appeared in the early summer. Then, the Agency argued that the complexity of the regulation of kryptonyte and the increasing incidence of fraud. The official ban on the import of mining equipment since July.
According to the Finance Ministry, six months in 2018, Vietnam has imported more than 3.5 thousand of equipment. Three of them thousands of devices bought four mining company. Basically this model ASIC miner Antminer from Bitmain Chinese giant.
Recall from 1 January in Vietnam came into force a decision of the Central Bank of the country banning the issuance and use of bitcoin as means of payment.
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