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Iranian authorities shut down illegal mines and confiscate 45,000 bitcoin mining machines

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Cryptocurrency researcher Ziya Sadr said miners "had nothing to do with the outage."

Rhythm BlockBeats news, recently, according to the Iranian media Tasmin News Agency, Iranian authorities confiscated 45,000 Bitcoin mining machines, which were allegedly illegally supplied by state-run energy supplier Tavanir.

Recent power outages occurred in several important cities in Iran, and Iranian officials blamed part of the blame on cryptocurrencies Mining, which aroused their strong dissatisfaction, demanded that Bitcoin mining be temporarily suspended until further notice.

Tavanir director Mohammad Hassan Motavalizadeh said the machines consume just 95 megawatts of electricity per hour. Cryptocurrency researcher Ziya Sadr told The Washington Post that the miners had "nothing to do with the outage," claiming that miners accounted for only a "tiny" percentage of the country's total electricity capacity.

Earlier this month, Iranian authorities shut down 1,620 illegal cryptocurrency mining farms, which according to various sources A total of 250 megawatts of electricity have been consumed in the past 18 months.