Kosovo confiscates hundreds of crypto mining machines in picking up-mining Bitcoin messages
Kosovo confiscates hundreds of crypto mining machines in picking up-mining Bitcoin messages
as part of raids that started on Thursday, the police confiscated another batch of over 200 mining devices in Kosovo. The offensive against underground crypto farms was launched after the authorities in Pristina banned the power -hungry embossing of digital currencies in the middle of an energy crisis in the country.
authorities in Kosovo confiscated mining hardware in the Serbian majority in the north
police officers in Kosovo have confiscated hundreds of mining machines to curb crypto mining activities in view of the shortage of electricity. One person has been arrested in the most recent police operation in the mostly Serbian north of the country.
A statement by the Kosovar police showed that the authorities in the municipality of Leposavic confiscated 272 devices used to manufacture cryptocurrencies, reported AFP. "The whole campaign went and ended without incidents," said Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla in a post on Facebook.
Finance Minister Hekuran Murati also pointed out on the social media platform that the estimated monthly consumption of mining equipment is as high as the power consumption of 500 households, worth between 60,000 and 120,000 euros. Murati also said:
We cannot allow the illegal enrichment of some at the expense of taxpayers.
The new confiscation has increased the total number of mining platforms confiscated since the beginning of the raid against Miner at the beginning of this week to 342, as data from the Interior Ministry show. This began after the government in Pristina All mining companies on Tuesday to the growing power deficit in the cold winter months.
mining threatens to increase ethnic tensions
In the middle of the government offensive against mining plants, there are tensions between the central government of Kosovo dominated by ethnic Albanians and the ethnic Serbs, which form the majority in four municipalities in the north of the partially recognized republic in Southeast Europe. The Serbs have not accepted the authority of Pristina and have not paid any electricity since 1998-1999.
The state's municipal utilities still contest their invoices from their own income and, according to estimates, amount to 12 million euros a year. The current energy crisis, intensified by inadequate local production and increasing import prices, has put the topic in the foreground. The police also carried out two raids in areas with ethnic Albanian population majority, in which 70 mining devices were confiscated.
The crypto mining ban was presented by Economics Minister Artane Rizvanolli as an emergency measure, together with other measures that were proposed by a special parliamentary committee. However, critics have expressed doubts about the legality, since the characteristics of digital currencies are not prohibited by the current legislation. A draft law for regulating cryptocurrencies, which was presented to Parliament in October, still has to be adopted.
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