The National Power Administration of Paraguay (ANDE) has recently detected and seized an illegal bitcoin mining operation hosting 693 miners. ANDE inspectors detected a tampered meter that failed to register all the energy consumed by the equipment connected to the power grid. The detection was carried out using SCADA systems. Paraguay Keeps Chasing Illegal Bitcoin […]
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Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Argentina reached zero inflation in food and beverages in June, the Central Bank of Bolivia unbans bitcoin, and several employees of the Paraguayan power company were allegedly involved in illegal bitcoin mining operations. […]
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Ukraine’s government-owned nuclear power plant picked a firm to build a massive data center in Rivne for cryptocurrency mining operations. After a bidding process, Energoatom chose Kyiv Energy Construction Company to handle the nuclear plant crypto mining project. Nuclear Power Plant Operator Expects to Launch the Data Center in 2022 According to official documents, the […]
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One of the largest exporters of electricity in Europe has revealed details of the most significant theft they have had in history, linked to a massive illegal bitcoin mining farm in a small Bulgarian village. Bulgarian Electricity Company Uncovers Massive Electricity Theft Linked to Illegal Bitcoin Mining According to Vesti, CEZ Group and police in […]
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Cryptocurrency mining malware has recently became such a hot issue in the cyber security world that popular internet browser Opera is now starting to offer protection against it right out of the box. Also read: New Cryptocurrency Mining Bot Is Infesting Facebook Messenger The developers of the Opera browser have announced that the next version of […]
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