It's a mystery. Mining farms were discovered in cowsheds near Volgograd. Despite the conspiracy
About what's in the cowsheds Gorodishchensky district It was practically impossible to guess that they were "breeding" not cattle, but cryptocurrency: "the sounds of bleating and mooing were coming from there."
A mining farm was exposed by energy company Rosseti Yug, together with operatives from the Economic Security and Combating Corruption Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Volgograd Region.
"The cryptocurrency mining farms were located in uninhabited buildings. They were connected to bypass metering devices, and the sounds of sheep bleating and cattle mooing were used as camouflage." storyali at the Volgogradenergo branch.
Preliminary estimates of damage from unmetered electricity consumption amounted to approximately 800 kWh, or over 3 million rubles in monetary terms.
Internet users were amused by the news: "I've always disliked the smell of crypto," "ASICs are competitors to cows," "I wonder how much they managed to mine? Will it cover the cost of electricity consumption?", "If only they'd gotten cows, they could have paid for it with them."- we reasoned they.
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