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The equipment seized by the authorities consumed the same amount of electricity as 500 homes, a problem for the small state, which last week announced a general ban on cryptocurrency mining following a crippling energy crisis the partially recognized country faced this winter. The ban was imposed on the basis of the recommendations of a technical committee.
Ph. Marco Verch if (jQuery ("# crm_srl-th_altra_d_mh2_1"). Is (": visible")) {console.log ("Edinet ADV adding zone: tag crm_srl-th_altra_d_mh2_1 slot id: th_altra_d_mh2"); } Several smaller seizures took place earlier this week. Mining took place mainly in the northern municipalities of Kosovo, where Serbs are in the majority. Kosovo formally declared independence from Serbia in 2008.