Irkutsk officials say they have identified over 8,000 illegal miners. Hiding places include forests, paper mills, and petrol ...

Russia has moved to shut down crypto mining operations across 13 regions, targeting an estimated 50,000 miners in what ...

Illegal cryptocurrency mining is causing billions of rubles’ worth of damage to the Russian state and economy, according to an estimate made public in the country’s parliament. Despite severe ...

Crypto miners use 1 gigawatt of power in and around Moscow, say officials. Only governors can request mining bans, central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian police say they have confiscated over 2,700 crypto mining rigs from a facility in St. Petersburg that went online in 2018.

Russia’s Justice Ministry proposed fines and prison for illegal crypto mining, as officials say most miners still haven’t joined the tax register. Russia has proposed a new draft bill seeking to crack ...

Anna Baydakova, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk joins us to talk about Russia's complex relationship with Bitcoin. From Putin's surprising embrace of crypto mining to the grey market of mining rig ...

The Russian government says it will not enact any further crypto mining bans, despite talk of further regional restrictions on miners. The media outlet RBC reported that the Russian Ministry of Energy ...