{"id":13715,"date":"2024-05-22T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/authorities-in-abkhazias-capital-shut-down-25-illegal-bitcoin-miners\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:37:08","slug":"authorities-in-abkhazias-capital-shut-down-25-illegal-bitcoin-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/authorities-in-abkhazias-capital-shut-down-25-illegal-bitcoin-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities in Abkhazia&#8217;s Capital Shut Down 25 Illegal Bitcoin Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Sukhumi, during raids to uncover illegal electricity connections and cryptocurrency mining, discovered three mining farms, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mvdra.org\/press\/15201\/\">local Ministry of Internal Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen devices were located in a repair workshop, four in a warehouse on a residential property, and two in the basement of a house.<\/p>\n<p>All equipment was confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Energy and Transport of Abkhazia, as cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/proisshestviya\/20856061\">TASS<\/a>, local law enforcement discovered over 3000 ASIC miners in 2023 and more than 800 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, cryptocurrency mining and the import of related equipment have been banned in the republic.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, in 2022, authorities approved special tariffs for miners.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2023, the Sukhumi administration proposed immediate disposal of confiscated illegal devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Sukhumi, during raids to uncover illegal electricity connections and cryptocurrency mining, discovered three mining farms, according to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs. Nineteen devices were located in a repair workshop, four in a warehouse on a residential property, and two in the basement of a house. All equipment was confiscated. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13714,"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":[1561,504,1306],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-abkhazia","tag-energy","tag-mining-ban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","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=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}