Venezuelan authorities confiscate more than 100 miners of secret Bitcoin mining operation-Bitcoin messages

Venezuelan authorities confiscated over a hundred mining machines in a residential area of ​​a central state. According to reports, the mining farm operated illegally without permits that the national cryptocurrency guard Sunacrip needs for these operations. The confiscation was cited by the national police, officials of the national energy company and staff from Sunacrip.

Venezuelan Mining by authorities confiscated farm

The authorities have arrested over a hundred miners who operated illegally on a secret farm in a residential area in Miranda, a central state in Venezuela. Corresponding to reports Local media According to the authorities, the farm localized the farm due to the load on the power distribution system in the area. This led to an inspection by the police and authorities of both the national electricity supplier (Corpoelec) and the national waking dog for cryptocurrencies (Sunacrip) to look for not reported mining activities.

The farm was dismantled and the mining equipment was confiscated by Sunacrip. Mining cryptocurrencies in Venezuela are a completely legal operation, which, however, requires a number of permits from Sunacrip to protect the electrical system from possible loads. Due to occurrences in the past, however, some miners choose to reduce underground to avoid supervision through Sunacrip and give the opportunity to give these events.

Sunacrip repeatedly asked the miners to register with the organization and give the miners guarantees.

More seizures pass

This is not the only confiscation that these authorities have carried out in the state. 165 mining machines were confiscated from a warehouse in the same state, which also lacked the necessary permits for the company in the area. Like the latest incident, this confiscation was a joint action by the police and the Sunacrip officials. This year, Sunacrip had to request that these visits always be carried out accompanied by a Sunacrip representative in order to avoid possible irregularities in the inspection process.

In addition, more than 400 miners confiscated due to a lack of permits when transporting the machines. The authorities confiscated the mine freight on a street control.

But even registered Venezuelan miners had problems with the officials of the electricity suppliers and Sunacrip. In August, officials from the national energy supply company Cut the power supply Bitcoin miner under strange circumstances in the state of Carabobo. Sunacrip was able to convey between those affected, the miners were connected to the power grid again after a week.

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