Bne Intellinews – Iran seizes 240,000 illegal encryption miners where the theft of power relates

Iranian energy interest has confiscated more than 240,000 illegal mining devices for the encrypted currency that consumes about 800 megawatts of electricity, with estimates indicating three times what many remain active throughout the country, Mehr News Agency It was mentioned on February 14.

The National Energy Company was in a battle with coding mining farms throughout the country for years, which appears to be a losing battle due to the low electricity price in the country, which attracted Chinese mining farms in recent years as well as thousands of underground mining farms that are slowly discovered.

Mustafa Rajabi Mashhadi, CEO of Tafanir, warned that illegal encryption mining can consume up to 3000 megawatts of energy – equivalent to three nuclear power plants in Bushehr (NPS) after a series of power outages that cause anger across The capital.

“Only bitcoin mining consumes a lot of electricity, such as 440 housing units in Tehran, which effectively leads to cutting energy to the neighborhood of 500 people for a month,” he said.

The company estimates that consumers are imposed only from the actual cost of electricity production, with highly supported rates, especially in warmer areas, which makes Iran attractive to illegal mining operations.

Masadi explained that this pricing policy led to the growth of unrestricted consumption. “These are the illegal miners, an evil phenomenon that is fueled by cheap electricity prices, and the rights of the public are clearly violated,” he said. The official highlighted how the power of energy generation in Iran has grown 13 times since the revolution, from 7,000 megawatts to more than 94500 megawatts, while consumption increased 23 times.

According to what was stated, illegal devices are smuggled into the country through boats and unauthorized entry points before contacting the national network. Tavanner previously called for the continuation of support from the Economic Security Police to track and confiscate equipment. However, the police are often under pressure else to target farms.

To produce 800 megawatts of the energy consumed by the currently seized miners, Iran will need to build 1,200 megawatts of the capacity of the new power plant, according to Tafanner accounts.

Iran has banned the advertisement One of the encryption mining machines last year In dictations of Pezeshkian, ICTNA mentioned on December 1.

In a letter issued by the Ministry of Communications addressed to the senior retailers via the Internet, the Ministry referred to President Rohani’s decision on April 14, 2016, by the Council of Ministers who prohibit the announcement of “high -consumption goods” without explicitly naming mining machines in observation.

The Ministry also called for the removal of ads to train cryptocurrency mining devices and high -power power strands.

Iran is not alien to encryption developments, as it focused on using its identity from financial transfers in its favor in the face of international sanctions.

As part of this step to seize Crypto uses in January 2022, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said it is planning to launch CBDC and use Crypto to settle International settlements. As part of this plan, the Central Bank of Iraq and the Ministry agreed to link the central bank’s platform to the comprehensive trading system of the Ministry (CTS) to facilitate trading.

Iran has surpassed the launch of “E-Toman” over the past two years to work on sanctions and liberate our restrictions on payment controls, including fast transfers and banks. However, technical and political concerns have slowed the work of the cryptocurrency, which currently identified the Central Bank of Digital Currency (CBDC).