TBC and Riot have agreed to stop providing data to the U.S. Department of Energy, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for their proposed three-year emergency survey. The survey was filed under the “EIA-862 Emergency Collection Request.” This information was made available in a March 2 filing.
The agreement essentially nullifies the interim restraining order, which was scheduled to last until March 8.
All data that was previously gathered from cryptocurrency miners for the survey—which Riot and the TBC deemed to be intrusive—will be destroyed, along with any future data that may be gathered.
This occurred after Riot and the TBC persuaded the judge that irrevocable harm would occur if additional data collecting was not banned.
According to the plaintiffs, the survey could result in non-recoverable costs associated with complying with it, a real fear of prosecution if they don’t cooperate, and the revelation of required proprietary information.
The poll would take around half an hour to complete, according to the EIA’s estimate, but the court found that estimate to be “extremely inaccurate.” Riot and the TBC disputed the estimate as well, claiming that the total cost of compliance to date has exceeded 40 hours.
Riot and the TBC have concurred, nevertheless, that the EIA may publish a further notice asking for public input on the data it is permitted to gather for a period of two months.
“Defendants consent that the EIA will accept comments for submission for a period of sixty days, starting from the date of the New Federal Register Notice’s publication,” the document said.
