{"id":54613,"date":"2021-12-14T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54613"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:18:39","slug":"bitcoin-miner-in-kyiv-region-suspected-of-stealing-electricity-worth-1-1-million-hryvnias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-miner-in-kyiv-region-suspected-of-stealing-electricity-worth-1-1-million-hryvnias\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin miner in Kyiv region suspected of stealing electricity worth 1.1 million hryvnias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of \\&#8221;DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids\\&#8221; discovered an illegally connected cryptocurrency mining farm in a forest south of Kyiv. UNIAN <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.unian.ua\/incidents\/mayning-u-zemlyanci-na-kijivshchini-kriptofermer-vkrav-elektroenergiji-na-milyon-griven-novini-kiyeva-11640937.html\\\">reports<\/a>, citing the company&#8217;s press service.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>During an inspection of the transformer substation at a closed agricultural enterprise, specialists checked the adjacent security building.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;A buried cable was connected to the power transformer, bearing a fairly heavy load,\\&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Following the cable route, the staff uncovered a tarpaulin-covered, branch-camouflaged dugout; inside lay a cryptocurrency mining farm.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>They prepared a bill for electricity theft totaling 1.1 million hryvnias (about $40,900).<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December, the Security Service of Ukraine uncovered an underground mining farm in Kyiv region, whose owners allegedly stole electricity worth 3.5 million hryvnias (over $128,000).<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids discovered an illegally connected cryptocurrency mining farm in a forest south of Kyiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54614,"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-54613","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":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54613","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=54613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54615,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54613\/revisions\/54615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}