{"id":21693,"date":"2025-03-03T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/250-bitcoin-miners-shut-down-in-irkutsk-region\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:08:00","slug":"250-bitcoin-miners-shut-down-in-irkutsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/250-bitcoin-miners-shut-down-in-irkutsk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"250 Bitcoin Miners Shut Down in Irkutsk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An illegal mining farm with 250 devices was discovered in Shelekhov, Irkutsk region, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/irkutskprocnews\/7005\">report<\/a> by the city prosecutor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment was located in a non-residential building and belonged to an individual not listed in the registry of citizens engaged in cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Shelekhov district is among the areas where digital currency mining is <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russia-imposes-mining-ban-in-several-regions\">prohibited<\/a> during the winter period from January 1, 2025, to March 15, 2031.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcYlGaKn0ltCO9IzF-iHhFH5S-0ysn5zH-3qcmI-ZeMy8w98UkvdYYcEe7mBJja9Iq2f87UPHI0rMtLf0qPQ40Wp4c4I_q9m4MnSo8umstTKmeDZ_Vg13-6BUgovtS6FwNffOm4?key=4Y_UU89e1oBDt4hMr7V-n5n4\" alt=\"250 Bitcoin Miners Shut Down in Irkutsk Region\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Irkutsk Region Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The total unaccounted energy consumption amounted to about 1 MW. Law enforcement suspended the mining activities and seized the equipment.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation has been launched into the alleged property damage through deception or abuse of trust.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, experts estimated the annual damage to Russia from &#8220;grey&#8221; miners at <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russias-grey-miners-cause-annual-losses-of-10-billion-rubles\">10 billion rubles<\/a>. In 2024, this figure <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/illegal-cryptocurrency-mining-costs-russia-over-1-3-billion-rubles-in-2024\">exceeded<\/a> 1.3 billion rubles.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 1, a law <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russia-legalises-cryptocurrency-mining-implications-for-the-industry\">regulating cryptocurrency mining<\/a> came into effect in Russia. The country also established an <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russia-imposes-energy-consumption-limit-for-individual-miners\">energy consumption limit<\/a> for individual miners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illegal mining farm with 250 devices was discovered in Shelekhov, Irkutsk region, according to a report by the city prosecutor&#8217;s office. The equipment was located in a non-residential building and belonged to an individual not listed in the registry of citizens engaged in cryptocurrency mining. Moreover, Shelekhov district is among the areas where digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21692,"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":[1137,504,27],"class_list":["post-21693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693","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=21693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}