Siberian Power Firm Aims to Prosecute 400 ‘Illegal’ Crypto Miners

The Siberian power firm Irkutsk Energosbyt says it wants to prosecute around 400 “illegal” crypto miners. And the provider says that illegal miners in the oblast have already “stolen $6.3 million worth of power from the grid.” Per the Russian media outlet RBC, Irkutsk Energosbyt has filed 2,113 lawsuits against private individuals for the “illegal use of electricity for crypto mining” in the past five years. The power firm is hunting so-called “gray” miners, who “install mining equipment in places not intended for this purpose.” Irkutsk Energosbyt called crypto mining rigs “powerful devices” that “increase the load on household power grids.”

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