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> Coin mining has been on the rise in northern Kosovo, mostly populated by Serbs who do not recognise the state of Kosovo and refuse to pay electricity. This i
by boomskats 5y ago
> Coin mining has been on the rise in northern Kosovo, mostly populated by Serbs who do not recognise the state of Kosovo and refuse to pay electricity.
This is a very loaded, technically inaccurate statement. This recent article explains the situation better: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/23/kosovo-to-end-free-energy-supplies-to-serb-majority-municipalities/ https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/23/kosovo-to-end-free-ener...
- londons_explore 5y agoIt is a literal quote from the article...
- boomskats 5y agoExactly. It's why I posted another article.
- petre 5y ago"Mimoza Kusari-Lila, an MP from the ruling Vetevendosje party said that “it is a matter of weeks” until consumers in northern start paying their own bills for the first time since the war ended in Kosovo in June 1999." "Serb consumers in the four northern municipalities have not paid for their electricity since 1999. According to Radio Free Europe, the total cost of the energy used in the Serb-majority municipalities is around 12 million euros per year." Whoever really believes that people who haven't paid their bills since 1999 would magically start paying in 2022 is quite naive.
- boomskats 5y ago> Whoever really believes that people who haven't paid their bills since 1999 would magically start paying in 2022 is quite naive. That belief is irrelevant. It's completely different to the article's statement that the population refuses to pay it, when a mechanism for them to pay it has not existed since 1999.