It ain't all smooth sailing for #Bitcoin miners in Paraguay 🇵🇾, after welcoming mining with open arms to help monetise it's vast hydro 🌊🌊 power resources, however illegal operations have grown through bribes and corruption and now the government is turning to seizures of #ASICS

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/paraguay-seizing-btc-mining-operations/?utm_source=nostr&utm_medium=social

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This is the South American MO. I'm not really surprised and my guess is that they're just using "illegal operations" as an excuse to steal.

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The illegal ops stole electricity directly from the grid. Same thing has happened in other countries as well.

Indeed, but my question is how do you set up an illegal mining operation without the permission of corrupt officials?