Several mining companies filed civil lawsuits against the U.S. Energy Information Administration for "illegal data collection."

Court documents show that a number of U.S. mining companies, including Texas Blockchain and Riot Platforms, jointly filed a civil lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and Information Administration (EIA), accusing the defendants of "illegally" collecting 82 bitcoins, including Riot. Proprietary data of coin mining companies. Recently, the EIA issued an "urgent" investigation into Bitcoin miners, requesting highly proprietary information such as the specifications of the machines used at each mine, the specific location of mining operations, and the commercial energy partners associated with each contract information, etc.