A poorly organized cryptocurrency mining farm has caused a fire in an apartment in St. Petersburg, Russia, and injured the operator, according to a 78.ru report citing the Ministry of Emergencies.<\/p>\n
The resident of the seven-bedroom apartment had apparently failed to set up sufficient cooling for his equipment, and was hospitalized due to severe burns to his hands, neck and back. <\/p>\n
The blaze took four fire engines, 16 firefighters and 40 minutes of work to put out, the report indicates.<\/p>\n
This is not the first incident of its kind in Russia. In December of 2019, a mining farm set up in a private car garage in the city of Vologda also caught fire, destroying all the equipment, Cnews reported at the time. <\/p>\n
And, in February 2019, a larger fire destroyed seven apartments in a residential building in the town of Artem, in the east of Russia. <\/p>\n
Illicit mining is a problem across the country. The federal power grid company Rosseti reported losing about $6.6 million last year because of the mining farms plugged into the electric grid illegally. <\/p>\n
In 2018, scientists in a nuclear research institute were arrested and later sentenced for using the institutions computers to mine bitcoin.<\/p>\n
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