Care company calls for $ 800,000 from Russians Mining Krypto with cheap energy-mining Bitcoin messages
Care company calls for $ 800,000 from Russians Mining Krypto with cheap energy-mining Bitcoin messages
The largest supply company in Irkutsk wants to collect almost $ 800,000 from owners of crypto farms who are said to have caused an increase in power consumption in the Russian region. The provider accuses the miners to burn cheap budgetary current in actual business.
energy supplier sues Krypto-Miner in court
Irkutskenergosbyt, the local electricity supplier in the Irkutsk Oblast, has submitted 137 complaints against customers to use the subsidized electricity to shape digital currencies in mining systems in basements and garages. If the cases are brought to trial, the supply company hopes to reclaim 63 million Russian rubles (over $ 790,000) as compensation, TASS reported on his director Andrey Kharitonov.
The company says that these home miners are operational while paying for their electricity to the tariffs for the population that are four times lower than the commercial tariffs. The owners of the underground crypto farms also increase the load on the power grid in residential areas, which leads to failures and failures failures .
In 2021 alone, over 1,200 cases of "gray" mining were identified, Kharitonov told the news agency. Of the 137 complaints submitted, 19 claims of 21 million rubles were satisfied. All other claims are still being checked and no cases have been lost so far, he explained.
The executive pointed out that the mining of cryptocurrencies significantly increases the volume of the used electrical energy in the region. While Irkutskenergosbyt customers used around 7 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) in 2020, it was almost 8 billion kWh in 2021. At the same time, the number of private households and apartment buildings has remained almost unchanged.
The energy supplier has registered the highest concentration of mining companies in the districts of Irkutsky and Shelekhovsky. The electricity tariffs in these rural areas are lower than in the city of Irkutsk. With only 0.86 rubles ($ 0.01) per kWh, households in these parts of the region have access to the cheapest electricity in Russia, while companies have to pay 3.6 rubles per kWh.
The miners inferior in court not only have to pay the price difference for the electricity already used, but also conclude new contracts irkutskenergosbyt at commercial prices. Your region became known as the "mining capital of Russia" after a large number of mining equipment was imported from China when Beijing initiated a nationwide approach to industry in May last year.
In October 2021 the governor of the Oblast Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, at Cryptocurrency mining as a kind of entrepreneurial activity and get miners to pay higher electricity tariffs and taxes. In December the Federal Government in Moscow may Russian regions are allowed to determine local electricity tariffs in Residential areas.
The future of mining in Russia, along with other crypto -related activities, is still undecided. A Working group In the state duma, laws were commissioned to prepare the law after the law To close “gaps in the digital financial investments”. Last week, the central bank of Russia suggested The prohibition of the bitcoin mining Crypto bits but according to media reports Your compromising attitude can be found Support from other government institutions.
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