{"id":35280,"date":"2021-01-25T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35280"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:36:18","slug":"in-abkhazia-mass-raids-target-mining-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-abkhazia-mass-raids-target-mining-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"In Abkhazia, mass raids target mining farms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Abkhazian Ministry of Internal Affairs<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mvdra.org\/press\/11753\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that several raids were conducted to curb illegal electricity consumption by miners. Over the 24-hour period, law enforcement cut power to equipment totalling around 25 MW.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Gagra District, 17 mining farms with a total capacity of about 10 MW were disconnected. In the Sukhumi District, nine mining farms were identified, and in the Gulripshi District \u2014 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Ochamchira District, at least 970 cryptocurrency mining devices were disconnected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raids and the resulting shutdowns of mining farms also occurred in other districts of Abkhazia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They began after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnik-abkhazia.ru\/Abkhazia\/20210123\/1031686843\/Snizit-potreblenie-elektroenergii-kak-vypolnyaetsya-poruchenie-prezidenta.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an order<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from President Aslan Bzhania to reduce electricity consumption to 2019 levels plus 5%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the near term, the parliament <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnik-abkhazia.ru\/Abkhazia\/20210124\/1031690454\/Glava-MVD-Abkhazii-dal-otsenku-vozmozhnomu-vvedeniyu-shtrafa-za-dobychu-kriptovalyut.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will consider imposing penalties<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for illegal electricity consumption. They are expected to amount to about 1.5 million rubles per MW. The initiative also provides for possible confiscation of mining equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As reported in autumn last year, local media said that, due to energy-intensive mining of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-crypto-mining-puts-abkhazias-power-grid-on-the-brink-of-crisis\">Abkhazia was on the brink of a crisis<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December, the Abkhaz authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/abkhazia-bans-cryptocurrency-mining-until-1-june-2021\">banned cryptocurrency mining<\/a> until June 1, 2021, and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-abkhazia-all-mining-farms-ordered-to-shut-down-by-december-29\">ordered the shutdown of all mining farms<\/a>.<\/span><\/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 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>The Abkhazian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported conducting several raids to curb illegal electricity consumption by miners. Over the 24-hour period, authorities cut power to equipment totalling around 25 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35281,"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":[1561,1137],"class_list":["post-35280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-abkhazia","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280","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=35280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35282,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions\/35282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}