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Cryptocurrency mine that drained energy from a village inside a truck was stopped by authorities.
Inside the truck, inspectors found 95 mining devices and a mobile transformer station.
Authorities in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, discovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation hidden inside a KamAZ truck that was diverting electricity intended for a nearby village. Inside the truck, inspectors found 95 mining devices and a mobile transformer station.
The discovery occurred during a routine inspection of the power line in the Pribaikalsky district. The installation was extracting electricity from a 10-kilovolt line without authorization. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the amount of energy extracted was enough to supply a small village.
Authorities in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, discovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation hidden inside a KamAZ truck that was diverting electricity intended for a nearby village. Inside the truck, inspectors found 95 mining devices and a mobile transformer station.
The discovery occurred during a routine inspection of the power line in the Pribaikalsky district. The installation was extracting electricity from a 10-kilovolt line without authorization. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the amount of energy extracted was enough to supply a small village.
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