{"id":22251,"date":"2025-03-20T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-farm-destroyed-in-irkutsk-region-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:33:13","slug":"bitcoin-mining-farm-destroyed-in-irkutsk-region-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-farm-destroyed-in-irkutsk-region-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Farm Destroyed in Irkutsk Region Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single-story residential house in the village of Baklashi, Irkutsk region, was destroyed by fire. The house contained a cryptocurrency mining farm, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/38.mchs.gov.ru\/deyatelnost\/press-centr\/novosti\/5479978\">report<\/a> from the local Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS). <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on the night of March 20. By the time rescuers arrived, the fire had engulfed the entire structure, causing the roof and ceiling to collapse. <\/p>\n<p>The fire consumed 80 square meters of the house, but the spread to neighboring buildings was prevented.<\/p>\n<p>During the site inspection, burnt ASIC miners were discovered. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfZ4Dztmp-Jmrhz9RMDwToIaC2VKh87tMGE1FSwWz0lBjb27_WjtITn8BnbG4zEl70S8L_1Nt3xXInqNK4LVMBQza5R-AabZioH_Nattv5OyoIOnqKeDLzYniotGmFPHk474HwpxQ?key=iOWLXOQFM922-z0XObhYVwEg\" alt=\"Bitcoin Mining Farm Destroyed in Irkutsk Region Fire\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: MChS of Irkutsk region.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Details of the incident are being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that the damage from &#8220;grey&#8221; miners in Russia is estimated at <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russias-grey-miners-cause-annual-losses-of-10-billion-rubles\">10 billion rubles<\/a> annually.<\/p>\n<p>Since September 1, 2024, a law regulating cryptocurrency mining has come into effect in Russia. Additionally, the country has set an <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russia-imposes-energy-consumption-limit-for-individual-miners\">energy consumption limit<\/a> for individual miners.<\/p>\n<p>In certain regions, authorities have imposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russia-imposes-mining-ban-in-several-regions\">ban on cryptocurrency mining<\/a> and participation in mining pools from January 1, 2025, to March 15, 2031. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single-story residential house in the village of Baklashi, Irkutsk region, was destroyed by fire. The house contained a cryptocurrency mining farm, according to a report from the local Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS). The incident occurred on the night of March 20. By the time rescuers arrived, the fire had engulfed the entire structure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22250,"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":[1137,1782,27],"class_list":["post-22251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-incident","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"62","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251","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=22251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}