{"id":21249,"date":"2025-02-18T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/illegal-cryptocurrency-mining-costs-russia-over-1-3-billion-rubles-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:42:55","slug":"illegal-cryptocurrency-mining-costs-russia-over-1-3-billion-rubles-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/illegal-cryptocurrency-mining-costs-russia-over-1-3-billion-rubles-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Cryptocurrency Mining Costs Russia Over 1.3 Billion Rubles in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rosseti Group of Companies <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rosseti_official\/4540\">reported<\/a> losses exceeding 1.3 billion rubles due to illegal mining activities in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Losses were recorded in regional companies:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rosseti North Caucasus \u2014 over 600 million rubles;<\/li>\n<li>Rosseti Novosibirsk \u2014 400 million rubles; <\/li>\n<li>Rosseti Center and Volga Region \u2014 120 million rubles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The largest incident was recorded in Novosibirsk, where the owner of an illegal farm connected more than 3,200 mining rigs. The damage is estimated at 197 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated that unauthorized mining leads to overloaded power grids and sharp voltage drops, causing household and industrial devices to fail. <\/p>\n<p>Over the year, specialists stopped 130 illegal connections. More than 40 cases were handed over to law enforcement agencies. Offenders face criminal charges with potential prison sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the damage from electricity theft for mining in Russia was <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russias-grey-miners-cause-annual-losses-of-10-billion-rubles\">estimated<\/a> at 10 billion rubles annually. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, Dagestan police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/illegal-mining-farm-with-378-devices-discovered-in-dagestan\">discovered<\/a> an illegal mining farm. A total of 378 devices were seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rosseti Group of Companies reported losses exceeding 1.3 billion rubles due to illegal mining activities in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,27],"class_list":["post-21249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}