Residents of Abkhazia burn devices for cryptocurrency mining

Residents of the Abkhazian village of Adzyubzha burned today, on December 16, the cryptocurrency mining devices found in the village.

"This is just the beginning, the Adzyubzh activists say. They plan to hold such actions in the future," the Aiashara telegram channel reports.

For details, see the channel "Aiashara" after turning on the electricity, added the author of the channel.

EADaily reported that mining of cryptocurrencies is prohibited in Abkhazia, however, law enforcement officers periodically report the discovery of mining farms, and customs officers catch mining machines at the border. Residents of Abkhazia now, when the light in their homes comes only for a few hours, are especially annoyed by the activities of miners. Cryptocurrency mining is one of the reasons for the severe energy crisis in which Abkhazia is currently located.

In Gagra today, six devices for cryptocurrency mining were also seized by employees of the Customs Committee with the assistance of the State Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The equipment was located in the basement of a private house on Kabardinskaya Street. According to preliminary estimates, the total cost of goods is about 900 thousand rubles. A case of an administrative offense has been initiated.

An illegally operating mining farm was also discovered in Sukhumi in the building of the extraction plant on the street . Nazadze. Operational and preventive measures to identify the facts of illegal connections to the power grid for the purpose of mining cryptocurrencies were carried out by employees of the 1st police Department of the Department of Internal Affairs in Sukhum.