{"id":30274,"date":"2020-10-19T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30274"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:30:10","slug":"hungarian-politician-resigns-over-on-the-job-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hungarian-politician-resigns-over-on-the-job-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian Politician Resigns Over On-the-Job Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A municipal representative of the Democratic Coalition in Budapest, Thomas Borka-Saxon, is accused of stealing electricity for Bitcoin mining. Local media <a href=\"https:\/\/hvg.hu\/itthon\/20201016_borka_szasz_andras_niedermuller_peter_aramlopas_bitcoin#rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p>Police raided a government building in Erzs\u00e9betv\u00e1ros district, where Borka-Saxon&#8217;s office was located, and seized cryptocurrency mining equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The source did not disclose the number of mined bitcoins or the extent of damage to the capital&#8217;s power grid.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Erzs\u00e9betv\u00e1ros, P\u00e9ter Niederm\u00fcller, strongly condemned his colleague&#8217;s actions:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPNiedermueller%2Fposts%2F2648992765321463&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=552&#038;height=263&#038;appId\" width=\"552\" height=\"263\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA fellow party member has disappointed me greatly. Or perhaps that word is not strong enough. He betrayed me. The rule of law and adherence to moral principles apply to everyone. And, in particular, to members of my party,\u201d he wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMiner\u201d has already resigned and left the party.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, the Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/australian-man-sentenced-for-mining-ethereum-and-monero-on-government-supercomputers\">convicted<\/a> of mining Ethereum and Monero on supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A municipal representative of the Democratic Coalition in Budapest, Thomas Borka-Saxon, is accused of stealing electricity for Bitcoin mining. Local media report this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,1980],"class_list":["post-30274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-hungary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274","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=30274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30276,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions\/30276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}