Irkutsk mining coded currency in the south of the region until 2031

The Russian authorities have banned the coded currency in the southern part of the Irkutsk area in Siberia until 2031, under a decree It was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Michotin and published on Monday.

Previously, the encryption mining was Prohibited Irkutsk and many Siberia are only seasonal, from January 1 to March 15. The new procedure makes the ban throughout the year.

The governor of the Irkutsk Igor Copziv region He said The stretching ban due to the “high -pregnancy” mining has been requested on the power system in the region.

“The temporary ban on January to March helped reduce the load on the energy network and released 320 megawatts of capacity – equivalent to 146 billion rubles [$1.92 billion] In construction costs for new power generation facilities, Copziv wrote on Telegram.

The ban is covered by 21 regions and eight cities, including IRKUTSK, but it excludes Bratsk – the home of the Bratskaya electrical power plant, a major electricity supplier in the region.

In late 2024, the Dossier Center, an investigation carried out by the exiled businessman Mikhail Khodrukovsky, linked Deputy State always Andre Logovoy to a data center in Bratsk participating in encryption mining. According to what was reported, the center received the reduced electricity, forcing other customers to pay higher prices to compensate for the costs, according to a source that the director cited.

Current currency mining also Prohibited During the year 2031 in the North Caucasus and the parts that Rossi occupied from Ukraine. Journalists have Described The Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus, which has been plagued by long power outages and aging infrastructure, such as “the capital” in Russia.

Russia is the second largest mining center in the world after the United States, which consumes 16 billion hours of electricity annually-about 1.5 % of the total energy use-according to the Ministry of Energy.