Russia cracks down on ‘illegal’ cryptomining with prison terms up to five years — Kremlin will begin prosecuting in 2027

The Russian government plans to penalize ‘illegal’ mining of cryptocurrency to prison terms of up to five years.

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World’s oldest Bitcoin Mining Pool celebrates 15th anniversary, has mined 1,311,339 bitcoins worth $115 billion — group has 255 billion times more hash power than at inception

15 years ago, the first Bitcoin mining pool was introduced by coder Slush.

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