{"id":55104,"date":"2021-12-23T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T09:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55104"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:42:15","slug":"dagestan-launches-crackdown-on-illegally-connected-cryptocurrency-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dagestan-launches-crackdown-on-illegally-connected-cryptocurrency-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Dagestan launches crackdown on illegally connected cryptocurrency miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dagestan Prime Minister Abdulpatakh Amirkhanov <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-dag.ru\/novosti\/novosti-pravitelstva\/presechenie-nelegalnoj-raboty-majning-ferm-obsudili-pod-rukovodstvom-abdulpatakha-amirkhanova.html\">held<\/a> a meeting, where countermeasures against illegal electricity consumption for cryptocurrency mining were discussed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amirkhanov, the activity of illegally connected miners leads to electricity shortages, prompting the regional authorities to intensify the search for such mining farms.<\/p>\n<p>In several Dagestan districts, authorities have already identified and stopped the activities of illegally connected miners.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also ordered the local Ministry of Energy to report on the discovered mining farms, specifying the number of identified facilities as well as any administrative and criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p>Mining in Russia is not prohibited and is not yet regulated by law; however, unauthorized connection to power networks or theft of electricity for cryptocurrency mining is a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Dagestan is a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/rosseti-bitcoin-miners-in-dagestan-stole-electricity-worth-70-million-rubles-since-the-start-of-the-year\">leader among the North Caucasus regions<\/a> in the number of detected cases of electricity theft for cryptocurrency mining. Since the start of the year, the damage has exceeded 70 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s 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>Dagestan Prime Minister Abdulpatakh Amirkhanov held a meeting to discuss countering illegal electricity consumption for cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55105,"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":[1137,504,27],"class_list":["post-55104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55104","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=55104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55106,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55104\/revisions\/55106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}