{"id":50187,"date":"2021-09-27T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50187"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:39:32","slug":"police-uncover-an-illegally-connected-cryptocurrency-mining-farm-in-kryvyi-rih-residents-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/police-uncover-an-illegally-connected-cryptocurrency-mining-farm-in-kryvyi-rih-residents-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Police uncover an illegally connected cryptocurrency mining farm in Kryvyi Rih resident&#8217;s apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kryvyi Rih resident illegally connected to the power grid to mine cryptocurrency, police in the Dnipropetrovsk region said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\\\"lazy\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPoliceDniproRegion%2Fposts%2F1884174985076480&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\\\" width=\\\"500\\\" height=\\\"736\\\" style=\\\"border:none;overflow:hidden\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" allowfullscreen=\\\"true\\\" allow=\\\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\\\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement carried out a search of his apartment and seized mining equipment. It is reported that to cut electricity costs, the Kryvyi Rih resident tampered with the meter using a magnet.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened for electricity theft, with the extent of the damage yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, mining in Ukraine is not prohibited, provided it does not involve an unauthorised connection to the electricity grid for that activity.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kryvyi Rih resident illegally connected to the power grid to mine cryptocurrency, police in the Dnipropetrovsk region said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50188,"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":[1137,16],"class_list":["post-50187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ukraine"],"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\/50187","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=50187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50189,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50187\/revisions\/50189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}