{"id":54694,"date":"2021-12-15T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54694"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:40:26","slug":"duma-threatens-bitcoin-miners-with-prison-over-electricity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/duma-threatens-bitcoin-miners-with-prison-over-electricity-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Duma threatens Bitcoin miners with prison over electricity theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoy threatened to jail cryptocurrency miners for illegal connections to power grids. This was reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/lenta.ru\/news\/2021\/12\/15\/polony210\/\\\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442<\/a> \u00ab\u041b\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>He said that if mining is recognised as a legitimate form of activity, electricity-distribution companies should issue permits to connect energy-intensive equipment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abIf [miners] are refused, but they still connect, then they will violate both the administrative and criminal codes. Illegal miners will have to be jailed\u00bb, \u2014 Lugovoy noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As an additional regulatory measure, he proposed a profit tax on cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abThey produced Bitcoin \u2014 then look at the price, calculate how much electricity they used, what other costs they incurred (salaries and other payments). Subtract all this \u2014 you get profit\u00bb, \u2014 added he.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In November, representatives from several ministries supported the move to recognise <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-authorities-back-plan-to-classify-mining-as-entrepreneurial-activity\">mining as a form of entrepreneurial activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, proposed to separately spell out <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/aksakov-proposes-codifying-miners-tax-treatment-in-law\">the taxation procedure for individuals and legal entities<\/a> engaged in cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, the Ministry of Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ministry-of-energy-rules-out-applying-a-preferential-tariff-to-bitcoin-miners\">excluded the application of a preferential tariff<\/a> for Bitcoin miners. For now, the regions have to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-irkutsk-region-bitcoin-miners-face-higher-electricity-tariffs-after-court-ruling\">push for rate recalculations through the courts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, experts calculated that, because of miners, household electricity consumption in several regions of the Russian Federation could <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/experts-forecast-a-surge-in-russias-energy-consumption-driven-by-mining\">increase by 2.5 times<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in 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>State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoy threatened to jail cryptocurrency miners for illegal connections to power grids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54695,"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":[1137,504,1138,36,27],"class_list":["post-54694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-opinions","tag-regulation","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54694","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=54694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54696,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54694\/revisions\/54696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}