Of the confiscated machines, 272 were found in Leposavic, indicating a high level of crypto mining in the region. Pictures of raids carried out to catch crypto mining have been posted on the Twitter handle of Kosovo Police. This action of the police has been supported by the Economy Minister of Kosovo, Artane Rizvanolli. A 60-day state of emergency was declared last month in Kosovo due to a lack of electricity. After this, the crypto mining activities have been strictly enforced. Illegal crypto mining in Kosova is consuming electricity that was supposed to be distributed to the people. The population of Kosovo is about two million and its generation is not enough to meet the electricity consumption there.
As per the report of Devdiscourse, there are two coal-fired power plants in Kosovo with electricity generation capacity of around 900 MW. Apart from this, more than 40 percent of the energy is imported to meet the demand. The increase in crypto mining activities has increased the load on Kosovo’s power grids.
Pollution is also increasing due to the high consumption of electricity in crypto mining activities. China banned crypto mining last year for the same reason. Iran has also recently banned crypto mining activities for three months due to high consumption of electricity. Authorities in Iran will control illegal bitcoin mining centers that use more than 600 MW of electricity. This is not the first time that Iran’s authorities have blamed bitcoin mining as a major cause of pressure on its power grid. In May last year, Iran imposed a four-month ban on bitcoin mining due to lack of electricity.
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