Tag: bitcoin
Macedonia 26.12.21 | 21:31

Shop owners in the GTC mall say their electricity bills have almost halved after the illegal Bitcoin mining operation was stopped

Shop owners in the GTC shopping mall in Skopje say that their electricity bills have dropped significantly after the aborted police raid in mid November. Led by the press, officers raided a basement office in GTC and found Bitcoin mining rigs apparently hooked to the common electricity supply. The offices...
Macedonia 07.12.21 | 20:59

Macedonian citizen detained on the Kosovo – Albania border carrying Bitcoin equipment

Albanian border police detained a Macedonian citizen who was carrying Bitcoin mining equipment. The 33 year old man was arrested at the Kukes border crossing with Kosovo. He had 39,000 EUR in cash and a device that is likely used to mine Bitcoin. He is charged with failure to report cash and valuables.
Macedonia 19.11.21 | 10:09

Government continues to deny reports about bitcoin mining with stolen electricity

Gjoko Trajcevski, the Government appointed director of the GTC shopping mall in Skopje, is again denying that people close to the ruling SDSM party were stealing electricity from the mall to mine for bitcoin. The suspects are the Bajram family, who dominate the Roma Shuto Orizari neighborhood and have...
Macedonia 19.11.21 | 09:52

Energy crisis: LDP and DOM will propose a ban on bitcoin mining

The LDP and DOM parties announced they will propose a limit on bitcoin mining in Macedonia, because of the major energy crisis. The proposal comes after a scandal in which it is alleged that people close to the ruling SDSM party were using an illegal power connection at the Skopje GTC mall to mine for...
Macedonia 17.11.21 | 11:35

Bitcoin miners with links to the ruling SDSM party suspected of stealing electricity in Skopje’s iconic GTC mall

After the aborted police raid in Skopje’s GTC shopping mall yesterday, the question of whether politicians close to the Zaev regime are going to be investigated for apparent mining of bitcoin using stolen electricity. The raid was conducted after the Infomax news site filmed the set of bitcoin...
Macedonia 16.11.21 | 20:31

Police raids a bitcoin mining operation in Skopje’s GTC mall

A large police raid was conducted this evening in Skopje’s central GTC shopping mall, against a group that set up bitcoin mining rigs. According to early media reports, the group used an illegal link to the power supply in GTC to make the operation profitable. Илегална фарма за...

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