{"id":57102,"date":"2022-02-03T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57102"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:58:52","slug":"in-volgograd-sauna-owner-ordered-to-pay-4-5-million-rubles-for-cryptocurrency-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-volgograd-sauna-owner-ordered-to-pay-4-5-million-rubles-for-cryptocurrency-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"In Volgograd, sauna owner ordered to pay 4.5 million rubles for cryptocurrency mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Traktorozavodsky District Court in Volgograd ordered the sauna owner to pay about 4.5 million rubles for electricity consumed without metering to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>As local media report, employees of <a href=\"https:\/\/v102.ru\/news\/103172.html\">report<\/a>ed that Gorenergosbyt detected an unauthorized connection to the metering device in a separate building of the bathhouse. The defendant argued that he did not lay the cable or use it.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he rents out the premises. The owner refused to grant access to the basement, after which representatives of the local energy-supply company called the police. In the premises they found mining equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Following the inspection, an act documenting unmetered electricity consumption was drawn up.<\/p>\n<p>The court held that the mining operation was organized by the owner, not the lessee.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in Khabarovsk, the owner of 220 ASIC miners paid damages of 2.75 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Traktorozavodsky District Court in Volgograd ordered the sauna owner to pay about 4.5 million rubles for electricity consumed without metering to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57103,"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":[1137,27],"class_list":["post-57102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","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\/57102","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=57102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57104,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57102\/revisions\/57104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}