Russia’s War on Crypto Miners: Fines, Fivers, and Frozen Siberian Nights ❄️💸
The Ministry of Justice, in a move that blends Kafka with a touch of Dickens, has unveiled draft amendments to the Criminal Code that threaten unregistered crypto miners with fines, forced labor, or imprisonment. The proposed Article 171.6, “Illegal mining of digital currency,” reads like a Soviet-era satire: “Thou shalt not mine without thy registration papers, lest thou be cast into the algorithmic abyss.”
