{"id":85956,"date":"2023-10-19T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85956"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:28:59","slug":"tomsk-water-utility-accused-of-cryptocurrency-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tomsk-water-utility-accused-of-cryptocurrency-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomsk Water Utility Accused of Cryptocurrency Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tomsk Region Prosecutor&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/epp.genproc.gov.ru\/web\/proc_70\/mass-media\/news?item=90913179\">\u043f\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0431\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430<\/a> that Tomskvodokanal dismantle a cryptocurrency mining farm operating on the company&#8217;s facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors from the supervising agency conducted an inspection after numerous complaints from residents of the Kaidalovka settlement about noise emanating from the water intake site.<\/p>\n<p>Two gas-piston installations were found to power the cryptocurrency mining equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, through a court, demanded that the utility dismantle the equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor filed a lawsuit with the court demanding the dismantling of the farm and noted that Tomskvodokanal did not have a license to operate gas-piston installations, which are hazardous production facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Two administrative offense cases have been opened concerning unauthorized connection to power grids and violations of industrial safety requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Energy proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russias-energy-ministry-proposes-higher-electricity-tariffs-for-miners\">to raise prices<\/a> for electricity for cryptocurrency miners in energy-deficient regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor demanded that Tomskvodokanal dismantle the mining farm operating on the company&#8217;s facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85957,"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-85956","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\/85956","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=85956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85958,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85956\/revisions\/85958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}