{"id":55173,"date":"2021-12-24T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55173"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:02:32","slug":"illicit-crypto-mining-farms-found-connected-to-the-electricity-grid-in-dagestan-damage-estimated-at-2-5-million-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/illicit-crypto-mining-farms-found-connected-to-the-electricity-grid-in-dagestan-damage-estimated-at-2-5-million-rubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Illicit crypto-mining farms found connected to the electricity grid in Dagestan; damage estimated at 2.5 million rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement authorities discovered mining farms illegally connected to the electricity grid in Dagestan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/xn--j1aihn.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai\/novosti\/item\/27644176\/\">\u041c\u0412\u0414<\/a>, in May the head of the homeowners&#8217; association installed mining farms in two non-residential premises in the settlement of Vremenny.<\/p>\n<p>During searches, police discovered 749 mining devices, as well as magnets fitted to meters to understate the amount of electricity consumed.<\/p>\n<p>The damage was estimated at 2.5 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened against the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Dagestan ranks <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/rosseti-bitcoin-miners-in-dagestan-stole-electricity-worth-70-million-rubles-since-the-start-of-the-year\">first among the North Caucasus regions<\/a> in the number of detected cases of energy theft connected to mining. Authorities began <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dagestan-launches-crackdown-on-illegally-connected-cryptocurrency-miners\">to fight illegal miners<\/a>.<\/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 analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement authorities discovered mining farms illegally connected to the electricity grid in Dagestan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55174,"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-55173","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":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55173","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=55173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55175,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55173\/revisions\/55175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}