TABNAK, Feb 09: CEO of state electricity company Tavanir said that cryptomining has been a major factor in the overconsumption of electricity in Iran in the past months. Mostafa Rajabi said that more ...

A deputy head of Iran’s state electricity company Tavanir said on Wednesday that authorities had discovered and confiscated some 252,000 illegal cryptomining machines amid a surge in whistleblowing ...

"Cryptomining has become such a big industry in Iran that it has strained the country’s energy grid, leading the Iranian government to temporarily suspend cryptomining several times after it was ...

Where is all of that energy going? Well, to computers solving complex math puzzles — aka cryptomining. People are just beginning to understand how outrageously the energy intensive proof-of-work ...

Warren and King directed the officials to "describe the steps the administration is taking to address threats to U.S. national security posed by Iran’s reliance on cryptomining and ...