U.S. House Committee Releases List of Witnesses in Crypto Mining Hearing

On January 17, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Business Oversight and Investigations released a list of witnesses for the hearing. It is reported that the witnesses come from different professional backgrounds, including Brian Brooks, the former acting director of the OCC and the current CEO of mining services company Bitfury; John Belizaire, the CEO of Soluna; Ari Juels, a professor of blockchain courses at Cornell University of Technology; Gregory Zerzen, former Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, and Steve Wright, former Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Chelan County Public Utilities District and Bonneville Power Authority. Earlier, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announced that it will hold an oversight hearing on the energy consumption of