{"id":65272,"date":"2022-08-03T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T07:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65272"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:01:35","slug":"kosovo-extends-ban-on-bitcoin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kosovo-extends-ban-on-bitcoin-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo extends ban on Bitcoin mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of the partially recognised state of Kosovo approved the introduction of emergency measures in the energy sector, relating in particular to cryptocurrency mining. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/15364241\">TASS<\/a>, citing an official document.<\/p>\n<p>From August 1, authorities extended the mining ban by 60 days and ordered all institutions in the country to switch to more economical use of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The decree was adopted in response to the sharp rise in the cost of imported energy and the ban on the export of fossil fuels from several EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the government may extend the restrictions for a period of 30 to 180 days.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, Kosovo authorities declared a state of emergency in an effort to cope with the energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In early January 2022, cryptocurrency mining was banned, and law enforcement authorities were tasked with monitoring electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the month, police, together with customs <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-kosovo-authorities-confiscated-more-than-300-bitcoin-miners\">confiscated more than 300 bitcoin mining devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of the partially recognised state of Kosovo approved the introduction of emergency measures in the energy sector, specifically relating to cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[504,1306],"class_list":["post-65272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-energy","tag-mining-ban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65272","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=65272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65274,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65272\/revisions\/65274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}