ENDWELL, NY (WSKG) — Amid environmental concerns in several Finger Lakes communities, Assemblymember Anna Kelles (D-125) said she will introduce legislation this week to temporarily ban cryptocurrency mining operations. Plan To Legislate Last month, the Town of Torrey Planning Board, in Yates County, gave the go-ahead to Greenidge Generation to expand its Bitcoin mining operation at its facility along the western bank of Seneca Lake, much to the chagrin of activists who demonstrated against the move.