Electricity Consumption Spikes in Irkutsk as More Russians Start Mining Cryptocurrency
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Electricity suppliers in the Russian region of Irkutsk have registered a surge in power consumption in residential areas which they are blaming on cryptocurrency mining. Planes with mining equipment from restricted China continue to land in the region, and cases of......