{"id":34902,"date":"2021-01-18T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34902"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:45:33","slug":"iran-confiscates-45000-asic-miners-used-for-bitcoin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/iran-confiscates-45000-asic-miners-used-for-bitcoin-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran confiscates 45,000 ASIC miners used for Bitcoin mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian authorities confiscated 45,000 ASIC miners that were illegally connected to the state electricity company Tavanir. CoinDesk <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/bitcoin-miners-seized-electricity-iran\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">reports<\/a>, citing local media. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Tavanir, the ASIC miners consumed 95 MWh of electricity at a subsidised price.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Late last week, major Iranian cities experienced widespread power outages. Officials partly linked the outages to cryptocurrency mining and called for a temporary halt to mining.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Tehran-based cryptocurrency researcher Zia Sadr, in a Washington Post <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/01\/16\/massive-blackouts-have-hit-iran-government-is-blaming-bitcoin\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">refuted<\/a> the authorities&#8217; claims. He said that miners &#8220;have nothing to do with the power outages,&#8221; since they account for only a &#8220;very small&#8221; share of the country\u2019s total electrical capacity. The problem lies in the worn-out equipment of the power plants.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Mining was legalized in Iran in July 2019. However, not all industry participants approved of the proposed tariffs, and they continued to use subsidised electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, the government required miners operating in the country to register, disclosing their identity, type and quantity of installed equipment. Authorities allowed power plants to operate with mining centres <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iran-allows-power-plants-to-work-with-cryptocurrency-miners\">provided they hold a licence<\/a> and comply with the established tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In early 2021, Iranian authorities shut down <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/iran-shuts-down-1620-illegal-mining-farms\">1620 illegal centres<\/a> for cryptocurrency mining, which together consumed 250 MW of power.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian authorities confiscated 45,000 ASIC miners that were illegally connected to the state electricity company Tavanir. CoinDesk reports, citing local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,504,840],"class_list":["post-34902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-iran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902","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=34902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34904,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902\/revisions\/34904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}