Picking up your bit-axe is very Viking though 

 Sköl ! 

 Have a look at the very end of the article: 

https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2023-2024/inns-202324-383s?all=true#m2

Also check public statements:

🔻According to the Digitalization Minister Karianne Tung: „The purpose is to regulate the industry in such a way that we can close the door on the projects we do not want” . 
https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/9zgyxq/regjeringen-slaar-ned-mot-krypto-datasenter-uoensket-i-norge 

🔻Government ministers claim that:
- they want “serious actors” - data centers “to secure storage of images and communication”, for example – „who are important to society, and the society-serving computer industry is important to Norway“;

- they don't know “how many data centers operate cryptocurrency mining in Norway today, but they are going to get an answer to that”; 

- they “don’t want cryptocurrency mining companies” since they look at them as „actors who are looking to "shop" for cheap electricity in Norway“ and “(...) businesses seeking to exploit Norway for cheap energy extraction”.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-miners-face-pressure-norway-071921322.html?guccounter=1 https://image.nostr.build/55dacc50fc1ac0a959f5ba2b73b0d40c0c31d0ab360e75244317229bcb9d0d62.jpg  

 Thanks! I understand. Yeah, I just thought they had made the decision that they will ban it, but seems they are just asking parliament to consider a ban? Anyway, it is such a clown world it would not surprise me if Norway banned itself from bitcoin. 

 På denne bakgrunn fremmer flertallet følgende forslag:

«Stortinget ber regjeringen utrede et forbud mot utvinning av kryptovaluta i Norge og komme tilbake til Stortinget senest i forbindelse med fremleggelsen av statsbudsjettet for 2025.» 

 Skjønner, jeg leste «going to ban» men de ber jo kun Stortinget utrede et forbud. Så ikke helt bestemt at se «skal» forby. Men det er jo clown world, ikke vanskelig å trekke slutningen.🌎🤡 

 Ingenting avgjort enda, men der er jo flaut at det diskuteres. Heldigvis har vi ett parti som taler dem imot, Venstre. Jeg støtter allikevel det demokratiske prinsippet, politikere får lov å foreslå lover. Det er jo jobben deres, og det norske folk har valgt dem for å gjøre det. 

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 Ja det er flaut, helt klart! At de plutselig skal begynne å differensiere på ting. Hvis det går den veien tenker jeg de angrer sårt den dagen «it catches on» og de havner bakpå. 

 Actually they're doing Bitcoin a favor. 

 Write a request to your legislators and regulators to prevent this ban. You still can do it, not just complain here. 

 I don’t think it the most reasonable answer. Look what bitcoin community is achieving in the US - they defend industry NOW, because they want to see scalability of their #freedomtech now, not in abstract future because of someone’s ignorance. 

 Please explain 

 Not everyone has a privilege to leave. I do respect more position of the US based bitcoiners who prefer to join efforts, invest their resources and time to defend industry and win.  

 We were asking about public consultations on that issue - it is a part of the regulatory process. We got an answer that they don’t have any plans to conduct such consultations. 

My post about that - no public consultation while preparing governmental report on the ban of mining cryptocurrencies. 

The fact that parliament will discuss publicly already written negative report of the government, without input of industry and end-users, doesn’t give you much.  

 This is what we see right now. And we got responses that “no plans to conduct public consultations”. Public hearing with just presenting reports doesn't equal to public consultations, which has to impact on the report presented in that public hearing.  

 That just sounds strange, because industries or others that will be affected by regulations are always consulted. This whole process seems odd.  

 That is correct. That is why we believe, public consultations should happen before government will introduce its report.  

 This post is speculative and I suggest that we Norwegians own the narrative of this. 

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 It doesn’t work who is the most influential. It works when majority of community will activate local communities and educate them, will contact to legislators and regulators with requests to include their opinions during regulatory process, effectively convincing them to be on bitcoin mining side. It sounds probably abstract, but look at the US - bitcoin community investing there its time, resources and getting results. Why we in the EU/EEA can’t do the same?  

 Totally agreeing with that point. So we need a group of people who can make the regulator’s understand bitcoin. Do u think Europe as a hole, or single country? I believe Europe is tougher than Norway by itself. 
Idk…. 

 For the moment, we need to concentrate on Norway. ideally to do advocacy for the EU level too - with newly elected members of the parliament and commissioners.  

 I don’t need to ask emails from ministry - Im in touch with them, no one if hiding its position in the Norwegian government or parliament. They are very clear about how they want to regulate a ban of cryptocurrency mining. 

There are problems that 1) no proper response and advocacy, public campaign in defense of #bitcoin;
2) it allows without any obstacles to produce very restrictive regulation to bitcoin mining which will affect people like me, end-users, and others- developers, investors, bitcoin miners since it will be used as a regulatory example. 

 No, Im from Ukraine.  

 This post is speculative and not accurate. 

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 Very good answer🙂
Follow u now👍🏻 

 The sad thing here from our politicians is that they mention bitcoin and the energy use is to high. Because they don’t understand bitcoin at all! 
Really sad 😔 

 Agreed. 👍🏻 

I will have a sit down with a couple politicians from my hometown and talk them through it. It’s easier to reach the ones at the top if you get some of their own to pitch the idea. 

My plan is to start with my contacts in Venstre, since they already are against the proposition, and make sure they have the right arguments.

Anyway, building knowledge among the common people are even more important IMO. Hodlers are voters too, and our numbers will hopefully grow to make us an important voter group in Norway like we’ve seen in the US. 

 Don’t mess with Norwegian botcoiners 💪🏻🌽⚡️🌮 

 Bitcoiners 😂 

 Seems like a very good plan! ⚡️🙂 

 I don’t think there is a need to predict, just enough to follow public discussion: what media wrote, what politicians said and what communities know about bitcoin mining. I remember times two years ago when attitude to bitcoin mining was neutral or far from negative. 

But now we need to address the current situation, prevent this dangerous regulatory approach.  

 the main question what has been done at all change it? 

Majority of the comments on my post with conclusions “let them ban it and then we will see”. 

I truly believe it is a huge mistake and misunderstanding of the consequences. 

Everyone who said in the past - let’s do not care about human rights, how bad regulations affects human rights and just move to other jurisdictions at the end of their experience understood - regimes able to reach them in the every place in the world. 

Same here: Norwegian regulatory standards will be used as an example for the EU single market, through OECD globally. To prove it more context - Swedish government implemented what Norway is doing right now. So what is the result? Sweden is pushing restrictive regulations against bitcoin mining at the EU level. 

#Bitcoin  is the same human right as others, it is people behind the technology, its developers, investors,  miners and end-users. Bitcoin is not getting funds from the authoritarian world, simply because it is a threat to dictatorship by default. So why you should allow to restrict it while you have all privileges to impact your regulators and change their approach? 

It is a matter of responsibility, investment of your time and resources, just like US bitcoin community is doing, and achieving significant success. Without just being complaining or being ignorant. 

 We can be bearish, but the main question if we are trying at all change it? 

Majority of the comments on my post with conclusions “let them ban it and then we will see”. 

I truly believe it is a huge mistake and misunderstanding of the consequences. 

Everyone who said in the past - let’s do not care about human rights, how bad regulations affects human rights and just move to other jurisdictions at the end of their experience understood - regimes able to reach them in the every place in the world. 

Same here: Norwegian regulatory standards will be used as an example for the EU single market, through OECD globally. 

#Bitcoin is the same human right as others, it is people behind the technology, its developers, investors,  miners and end-users. Bitcoin is not getting funds from the authoritarian world, simply because it is a threat to dictatorship by default. So why you should allow to restrict it while you have all privileges to impact your regulators and change their approach? 

It is a matter of responsibility, investment of your time and resources, just like US bitcoin community is doing, and achieving significant success. Without just being complaining or being ignorant. 

 Not everywhere will be the first. The cost of convincing is real both in actual cost terms as well as opportunity cost terms.

Texas is huge for bitcoin … tons of waste, curtailed, and spare energy in a favorable political / regulatory regime. I’d expect that Texas’s success will be more convincing for other regimes missing out than the pleas of a small group of passionate citizens.

Regimes will get FOMO…good thing for you is that Norway is sophisticated so they’ll be one of the first regimes to realize what they’re missing. 

 Texas bitcoiners have a lot of challenges with local and federal policymakers too, but they ADDRESS THEM, they really fight for their rights and GETTING RESULTS. 

That is my main point :) you work and show PoW. Or you don’t work and there is no PoW. 

 Just be sure you’re allocating your capital efficiently! Would love to see Norway be a leader in bitcoin mining. Good luck!