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Power company hid illegal crypto mine that may have caused outages

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A power provider in Siberia has been fined for illegally leasing state land to an illegal mining operation.

The power provider was fined more than 330,000 rubles ( about $3,000 ) for the improper land use.

Russia became the world's second largest Bitcoin miner last year , mining more than $3 billion in 2023 .