[Venezuela News] "Whoever starts to mine cryptocurrencies commits illicit exchange and goes to jail"

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" Officials from the Lara State Police Force raided a warehouse in Barquisimeto on Tuesday with 21 cryptocurrency mining machines. This is captured by a note by journalist Marlyn Silva for El Impulso.

Each machine is valued at $ 7,000. "The sudden increase in electricity consumption at that specific site was the warning signal for the researchers. They asked the National Electric Corporation (Corpoelec) for service orders to install new transformers to verify who these applications were in and they found the user's address.(...)"

And so the news continues, now in Venezuela it is unlawful to have a cryptocurrency, since exchanging this to the local currency (bolivares) is a "currency crime". Little by little this government takes all possibilities that the Venezuelan has to overcome this crisis ... in this case, everything to be able to steal the machines of these supposed "criminals" and to be able to mine cryptocurrency on their own ...

Im afraid that at some point the Venezuelans are also prohibited from using steemit, since to pass the revenues on this platform to bolivares .. it is necessary to commit the "exchange crimes" .. and users like @steem-pays will have to Be careful that the government does not create a witch hunt against him and others who offer this service of change.