The French right-wing party National Rally plans to draft a bill to use excess electricity from nuclear power plants to mine Bitcoin

ChainCatcher news, according to Le Monde, the French far-right party National Rally (Rassemblement National) is preparing to draft a bill to use excess electricity from nuclear power plants to mine Bitcoin. In 2016, the party's presidential candidate Marine Le Pen stated that she wanted to ban virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, on the grounds that they are products manipulated by the "elite" and "Wall Street lobbying forces."