According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the right-wing French political party "Rassemblement National" plans to introduce a bill to use the surplus electricity from nuclear power plants for bitcoin mining. The party's lawmaker, Aurélien Lopez-Liguori, began drafting the bill in July. The proposal plans to deploy high-performance computing machines at the nuclear power plant of French energy giant EDF to participate in the operation and maintenance of the blockchain network by performing com...
On September 2nd, according to exit polls, the far-right Alternative for Germany party won the most votes in the parliamentary elections in the central German state of Thuringia on September 1st, becoming the largest party in the state parliament. This is the first time the Alternative for Germany party has won a state parliamentary election since its establishment.
The far-right National Union (RN) party in France has taken the lead in the first round of voting in the French general election on Sunday. The election results could lead to a new French parliament that is more polarized between the left and right, making domestic policymaking, including cryptocurrency policy, uncertain and difficult. Mark Foster, head of European Union policy at the Crypto Council for Innovation, said this would limit the president's power on the international and European sta...