The Governor of the Irkutsk Region complained about the large consumption of energy "underground" miners – Bits Media

The Governor of the Irkutsk Region Igor Kobzev published a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak with a request to help with entrepreneurial mining recognition.

In a message on the social network Instagram, Kobzev reported, what Over the past year, the consumption of electricity among the population has increased by 159%. He blames illegal miners in this, After all, equipment for the production of cryptocurrencies consumes a lot of energy.

The governor emphasized, that such a load leads to accidents and precedents have already been. Therefore, it is necessary to recognize the production of cryptocurrencies by the type of entrepreneurial activity, so that miners use energy by appropriate tariffs.

“It is required to establish regulatory features of mining activities, including the features of electric energy consumption in the production of cryptocurrencies and for household needs, excluding any discrimination of the population ", - emphasized Kobzev.

He told, that due to the increased load on energy networks, a disconnection of summer villages in the Markovsky municipality has already occurred. There were no electricity for several hours and, In the case of repeating such accidents in the winter period, Sad consequences are possible.

Recall, that Russia now takes third place in the world in terms of mining - Russian miners generate 11% of the total hashrate of the Bitcoin network.