{"id":45372,"date":"2021-07-01T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45372"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:47:17","slug":"ukraine-shuts-down-bitcoin-mining-farm-whose-operation-caused-over-3-million-hryvnias-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ukraine-shuts-down-bitcoin-mining-farm-whose-operation-caused-over-3-million-hryvnias-in-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine shuts down Bitcoin mining farm whose operation caused over 3 million hryvnias in damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) <a href=\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/sbu-zneshkodyla-kryptofermu-cherez-yaku-bez-svitla-i-vody-mohla-zalyshytysia-chastyna-chernihivskoi-oblasti-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down the mining farm<\/a>, which the owners illegally connected to a transformer substation in Chernihiv Oblast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vW7r2GnUEHc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More than 150 ASIC miners were kept in leased warehouse premises. To conceal the electricity theft, the perpetrators used specialized equipment to underreport the meter readings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_140943\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140943\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7871f561609f442ff4a2ea374d166f2c.jpeg\" alt=\"Bitcoin mining farm in Ukraine shut down; damages from its operation exceeded 3 million hryvnias.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7871f561609f442ff4a2ea374d166f2c.jpeg 2000w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7871f561609f442ff4a2ea374d166f2c-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7871f561609f442ff4a2ea374d166f2c-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7871f561609f442ff4a2ea374d166f2c-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7871f561609f442ff4a2ea374d166f2c-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-140943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: ssu.gov.ua.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the agency, the substation to which the miners connected also serves the Nezhin Emergency Medical Service, Nezhin Vodokanal and other facilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe actions of the perpetrators could have led to emergencies with uninterrupted electricity supply to the population and businesses \u2013 part of the region could have been left without light and water,\u201d the SBU said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In two months the losses from the miners\u2019 activities exceeded 3 million hryvnias (over $109,000).<\/p>\n<p>During the search, law enforcement seized cryptocurrency mining equipment and other gear.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in February, SBU officers identified crypto-farm assemblers in the Lviv region who <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-ukraine-mining-farm-operators-stole-mined-cryptocurrency\">stole the mined cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog\u2019s news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) halted the operation of a mining farm that the owners illegally connected to a transformer substation in Chernihiv Oblast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45373,"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":[1137,504,16],"class_list":["post-45372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"41","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372","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=45372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45374,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372\/revisions\/45374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}