{"id":240493,"date":"2021-05-26T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=240493"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:54:16","slug":"iran-regimes-bitcoin-mining-causes-blackouts-worsens-risks-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/iran-regimes-bitcoin-mining-causes-blackouts-worsens-risks-from-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime\u2019s Bitcoin Mining Causes Blackouts, Worsens Risks from Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"bitcoinIran\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bitcoinIran.jpg\" alt=\"bitcoinIran\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bitcoinIran.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bitcoinIran-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bitcoinIran-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bitcoinIran-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bitcoinIran-696x428.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Numerous large-scale blackouts have been reported across Iran in recent days. In the capital city of Tehran, electricity remained unavailable in certain areas for as much as six hours at a time, and in Ahvaz, people were intermittently left without <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/iran-power-outage-crisis-reasons-and-impacts\/\" rel=\"noopener\">power<\/a> at a time when temperatures reached 45 degrees Celsius. The regime officials attempted to explain away the situation at least in part by referencing the effects of drought upon hydroelectric power generation, but many experts agree that the primary issue is the excessive growth of bitcoin mining in a country that is ill-equipped to handle it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Elliptic, a cryptocurrency analysis firm, has recently estimated that about 4.5 percent of all the world\u2019s bitcoin mining operations take place in Iran. The growth apparently reflects efforts by\u00a0the Iranian regime\u2019s\u00a0authorities and state-linked private institutions to find creative means of evading US sanctions on the\u00a0regime. Their foray into cryptocurrency also exploits\u00a0a newfound expansion in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-poverty-government-corruption-20210524\" rel=\"noopener\">economic<\/a> relations between the\u00a0Iranian regime\u00a0and China, which is reportedly home to many of the firms involved in the current operations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This in turn means that China is exploiting Iran\u2019s vast oil and gas resources by using them to fuel some of the massive volumes of electricity consumption associated with their own bitcoin mining. Iran has officially recognized this activity as legitimate since 2019. Not all such mining has been officially licensed over the past two years, however.\u00a0Like\u00a0all lucrative illegal activity in\u00a0Iran, the unlicensed bitcoin has been undertaken\u00a0by\u00a0the Islamic <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc-part-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolutionary Guard Corps\u00a0(IRGC)<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to Elliptic, the legal and illegal Iranian bitcoin mining operations collectively account for more than 600 megawatts of electricity, which means that they are consuming the equivalent of 10 million barrels of crude oil per year. Meanwhile, the operations produce nothing of value for the country but simply function as links in a chain of computer-to-computer interactions that legitimize purchases made with cryptocurrency somewhere in the world. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The recent blackouts are the result of the regime\u2019s illicit activities. The regime\u2019s newfound reliance on bitcoin mining has apparently evolved to the point at which it is not just burning off supplies of locally produced crude that it would otherwise export; it is needlessly consuming supplies that are needed by the Iranian people and converting them into the currency that can generally be used only by the regime and terrorist entities such as the IRGC in Iran or beyond its borders.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One member of the\u00a0regime\u2019s\u00a0parliament, Mohammad Ali Mohseni\u00a0Bandpi, recently emphasized the impact that this situation is having upon the population\u2019s health needs. He\u00a0acknowledged\u00a0that hospitals have experienced lengthy blackouts and that although most have backup generators, they are not designed to keep equipment running for as long as these blackouts have persisted. This means that medical staff have not only struggled to maintain ordinary operations but have also lost supplies of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-source-reports\/irans-covid-19-crises-and-its-effects-on-peoples-livelihood\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19<\/a> vaccines, which must be kept at very cold temperatures in order to remain usable.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Due to the regime\u2019s inhuman Covid-19 policy,\u00a0Iran is among the countries that have been hardest hit by the global pandemic.\u00a0According to\u00a0the\u00a0People\u2019s\u00a0Mojahedin Organization of Iran reports,\u00a0the actual death toll is now\u00a0close to\u00a0300,000 and that the discrepancy reflects a situation of chronic\u00a0regime\u00a0misinformation, masking the effects of\u00a0the regime officials\u2019\u00a0neglect and deliberate mismanagement.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous large-scale blackouts have been reported across Iran in recent days. 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