{"id":82590,"date":"2023-08-03T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82590"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:00:21","slug":"773-bitcoin-miners-seized-in-dagestan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/773-bitcoin-miners-seized-in-dagestan\/","title":{"rendered":"773 Bitcoin miners seized in Dagestan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement agencies of Dagestan seized 773 mining devices illegally connected to power grids. The information was reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mvdmedia05\/114\">Republic&#8217;s Ministry of Internal Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The farm was located in a non-residential building on the premises of a farming enterprise in the village of Novoe-Gadari.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old owner had initially registered a cryptocurrency-mining business, but later illegally installed a second power line.<\/p>\n<p>The police seized the ASIC miners and opened an investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">9 August 2023 | 14:43<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over six months, Rosseti North Caucasus identified electricity theft for cryptocurrency mining amounting to more than 5.7 million kWh, worth 23 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Energy officials prepared acts of unaccounted consumption for each case and forwarded the materials to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the cases, a criminal case has already been opened. According to its materials, at the Dagestan-Ethanol plant in Makhachkala there were 341 ASIC miners. The equipment illegally consumed more than 1.5 million kWh, worth 1.5 million rubles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In late July, a Malaysian electricity provider Sarawak Energy detected on the island of Borneo <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/malaysia-cracks-down-on-illegal-cryptocurrency-mining\">mining farm<\/a>, whose owners were involved in illegal cryptocurrency mining. The farm consisted of 34 ASIC miners, connected to the grid via cable tapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dagestan law enforcement seized 773 mining devices illegally connected to power grids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82591,"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":[1154,1137,504,27],"class_list":["post-82590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82590","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=82590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82592,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82590\/revisions\/82592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}