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Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners by hpd on Sunday January 16, 2022 @06:23AM (#29955087)
> The largest-scale crypto mining is thought to be taking place in the north of the country, where the Serb-majority population refuse to recognise Kosovo as an independent state and have consequently not paid for electricity for more than two decades.

So how exactly are they mining if they aren't paying for electricity ? Illegally connected to the grid and/or bribed someone from the electric company to turn a blind eye ?

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Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners by boomskats on Sunday January 16, 2022 @06:38AM (#29955153)
It's far more complex a situation than the article makes it seem. This one explains it much better: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/23/kosovo-to-end-free-ener...
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Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners by rixed on Sunday January 16, 2022 @07:01AM (#29955274)
And how is this ban going to be enforced if they can't even enforce energy bills to be paid?
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Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners by fluffyguy on Sunday January 16, 2022 @12:00PM (#29957632)
They signed a dumb deal with serbia. The serb community doesn't pay the energy bill until a final deal is reached with serbia on the EU facilitated dialogue. I don't know the details of this, but that's a tl;dr version!
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Re:Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners by mrweasel on Sunday January 16, 2022 @06:28AM (#29955103)
Maybe the government is scared to allow powered to be turned off, fearing an uprising among the Serbs, potentially giving Serbian a reason to interven?
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