The miner from the Irkutsk region owed the power engineers 28 million rubles – Bits Media

Bayandaevsky District Court of the Irkutsk Region ruled, that a resident of the Ust-Ordynsky Buryat district must pay Irkutskenergosbyt 28.6 million rubles for electricity consumed.

TASS agency reports, that the resident of the village of Bayanday organized Large -scale farm for mining cryptocurrencies on its site. The size of the farm was really impressive - monthly devices on the site consumed 800 000 KW *, which is comparable to a small industrial enterprise. Wherein, He paid for tariffs for the population - 0.86 Rai Kwt * even, And the power engineers, who came to check, I did not let the site.

However, representatives of Irkutskenergosbyt did not give up - they collected evidence and went to court. The court held an exit meeting, During which only hay was found in the premises on the site - the owner took out the equipment in advance. However, racks with sockets convinced the court of, that cryptocurrency mining was carried out on the site.

“In court it was proved, that the resource is not used for communal needs, and for commercial purposes. When using electricity for communal needs in rural areas, the tariff is 0.86 KW *, Commercial tariff - in 3.5 times higher. In this way, The defendant did not pay for the electricity properly. By a court decision, the defendant must pay 28.6 million rubles as a recalculation of electricity at a commercial tariff ", - Note representatives of Irkutskenergosbyt.

In February, the energy of the Irkutsk region said, that the spread of mining among residents of the region has led to an increase in energy consumption in 4 times.