A worker at a nuclear research center in russia’s place in Sarov and has a ticket for the illegal mining of bitcoin (BTC).
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A penalty of $7,000
The Russian news site Meduza reported a remarkable incident. The man has been charged with a fine of 450.000 Rubles, converted to a $7,000 due to the illegal mining of bitcoin.
He was not in his room, but out of his work. That is, it is a research center for nuclear weapons in the Russian Sarov, a small town of about 370 km south-east of Moscow, russia.
There, he made use of a supercomputer for mining of blocks using bitcoin as a reward. The man has been convicted for any criminal gain access to, it systems and the storage of information.
Electricity from there
Guilty to set bitcoin to mine is on the increase. For example, there was the Armenian IT company, who have large-scale electricity aftapte to cryptovaluta to mine.
According to the domestic intelligence service, the company’s mining equipment is installed in a power plant to be no less than 1.5 years, the illegal power tapping.
The estimated worth of the stream with $150,000.
China
Authorities in China’s Sichuan province in may of this year, the number of illegal bitcoin mining farms to be rolled up.
The buildings were more than $ 30,000 bitcoin mining machines, which, without the approval of the local authorities that were put in place.
Source: Cointelegraph