Employees of the Irkutsk electric grid company and the police found a mining farm in the bushes in the wasteland in Irkutsk. 21 The device was connected to an electric line 20 meters from the street of the working headquarters.

According to preliminary estimates, the profit from illegal mining on the farm amounted to 250,000 rubles monthly. At the same time, the damage from non -contractual electricity consumption amounted to at least 1 million rubles.

Since January 1, the Russian government introduced a complete ban on mining in several regions of the country. In most other regions of Russia, it is possible to engage in the extraction of digital assets only under state control.

Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs registered in the special register of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service), as well as an individual within the limits of the limit of 6000 kWh per month, have the right to minute. Since July 30, the Russian authorities approved the rules for the transfer of information about miners in the Federal Tax Service by data centers operators.

Earlier, the prosecutor’s office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in Russia announced that she had stopped the operation of a large mining hotel: the equipment was placed in several rented rooms and beyond, which caused interruptions in power supply at the neighboring clinic.