{"id":10167,"date":"2024-01-26T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cryptocurrency-mining-farm-with-620-devices-discovered-in-makhachkala-parking-garage\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T15:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:21:41","slug":"cryptocurrency-mining-farm-with-620-devices-discovered-in-makhachkala-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cryptocurrency-mining-farm-with-620-devices-discovered-in-makhachkala-parking-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency Mining Farm with 620 Devices Discovered in Makhachkala Parking Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Makhachkala, in collaboration with specialists from the Dagenergo branch, uncovered a cryptocurrency mining farm with 620 devices in the garage of an underground parking facility while investigating residents&#8217; complaints about power surges in a multi-storey building.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"rosseti_sk\/190\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The equipment belonged to a 35-year-old local resident. An inspection revealed that he had connected the equipment to power lines, bypassing metering devices.<\/p>\n<p>During the farm&#8217;s operation, he stole 1.75 million kWh of electricity, equivalent to the three-month consumption of 120 apartments. The damage amounted to over 12.2 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities seized 620 ASIC miners, a laptop, a video recorder, and flash drives.<\/p>\n<p>The miner faces up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Back in mid-January, Makhachkala authorities identified a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/illegal-mining-farm-overloads-power-grid-in-makhachkala\">mining farm with 250 devices<\/a> that caused a critical overload of the power grid.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, energy officials in Dagestan urged Bitcoin miners to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dagestan-bitcoin-miners-urged-to-shut-down-during-cold-spell\">shut down their farms<\/a> during cold spells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Makhachkala, in collaboration with specialists from the Dagenergo branch, uncovered a cryptocurrency mining farm with 620 devices in the garage of an underground parking facility while investigating residents&#8217; complaints about power surges in a multi-storey building. The equipment belonged to a 35-year-old local resident. An inspection revealed that he had connected the equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1137,504,1251,27],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-rosseti","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"35","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}