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posted by martyb on Saturday January 08 2022, @10:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the charge-the-miners-more? dept.

Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining after blackouts:

The government says security services will identify and clamp down on sources of cryptocurrency mining.

The mining is energy intensive and involves verifying digital transactions to get cryptocurrencies as a reward.

While all of Europe faces sharp price rises, Kosovo is enforcing rolling blackouts amid an electricity shortage.

The Balkan state's largest coal-fired power plant was shut down last month over a technical issue, forcing the government to import electricity at high prices.

A 60-day state of emergency, declared in December, gave the government powers to allocate more money for energy imports and impose stricter restrictions on power usage.

The blackouts have sparked protests and calls for the resignation of Economy Minister Artane Rizvanolli.

Energy prices are skyrocketing across Europe for various reasons, including low supplies from Russia and high demand for natural gas as economies recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The spike has been fuelled by geopolitical tensions with Russia, which supplies one third of Europe's gas. Russia has rejected European accusations that it has limited gas deliveries while tensions are raised


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by khallow on Saturday January 08 2022, @12:21PM (6 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 08 2022, @12:21PM (#1211037) Journal

    Or that we should stay the fuck out of his biz

    Is he going to reciprocate? He going to stay out of all that biz he's currently meddling in? Not just including the places you mentioned, but Russia too?

    At some point, you have to realize that a large part of the problem is that Putin is in a lot of biz that isn't his. Else you can't resolve this.

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday January 08 2022, @01:05PM (5 children)

    by looorg (578) on Saturday January 08 2022, @01:05PM (#1211044)

    I doubt it. He is indeed. I guess he considers all former soviet republics and eastern align states as his sphere of influence or something such. But I guess he takes his ideas from other "great leaders". They tend to all go for that do what I say not what I do kind of thinking. The same rules does not apply and we are not even playing the same game from the look of it. Sort of like Uncle Sam doesn't like it when other people meddle in his biz either and if the last 70 years or so is any kind of indicator you fuck with Sam at your own peril.

    The other part is that he probably knows the the EU whine and bitch a bit. After all what are they going to do? Send him a harshly worded letter? Auch. They can't really agree on much else then that, most of the time not even that. Economic sanction? Doesn't bother him and his cronies to much either.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 08 2022, @05:16PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 08 2022, @05:16PM (#1211094)

      The Russian troll is string in this one. Is he paid by Russia?

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 08 2022, @06:08PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 08 2022, @06:08PM (#1211099)

        Maybe, but string trolls are paid with balls of string, so anyone can afford to hire them.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 08 2022, @06:25PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 08 2022, @06:25PM (#1211105)

          That will keep them amused for.several hours but you still have to pay for the cat food.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 09 2022, @12:16AM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 09 2022, @12:16AM (#1211163) Journal

      Sort of like Uncle Sam doesn't like it when other people meddle in his biz either and if the last 70 years or so is any kind of indicator you fuck with Sam at your own peril.

      I take it Putin will get curb stomped Real Soon Now (TM) by scary Uncle Sam?

      • (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:48AM

        by looorg (578) on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:48AM (#1211215)

        Who knows, he might be some kind of exception to the rule. It's much easier to curb stomp small tinpot dictators instead of big once. It's not that he couldn't, it might be a question of does he want to or is it worth the effort, the price and the cost.