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> The largest-scale crypto mining is thought to be taking place in the north of the country, where the Serb-majority population refuse to recognise Kosovo as an
by boomskats 5y ago
> The largest-scale crypto mining is thought to be taking place in the north of the country, where the Serb-majority population refuse to recognise Kosovo as an independent state and have consequently not paid for electricity for more than two decades.
I still find this wording very interesting, and somewhat loaded. It's not that the population is somehow collectively refusing to pay for their electricity. A mechanism for them to pay it has not existed since 1999.
Discussed previously here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29809078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29809078
- henrydark 5y agoI read the discussion and the piece referenced therein, but I couldn't find a reference to the Serbs not being able to pay. Can you elaborate on this?
- boomskats 5y agoMy understanding is that the billing infrastructure for that part of Kosovo still hasn't been established. Quoting another article from balkaninsight [0]: > While the Kosovo government remains unclear on how to proceed after the six-month deadline, Serbs in the Kosovo north remain confused on how and to whom they should pay their electricity bills. > Miodrag Milicevic, of the North Mitrovica-based NGO Aktiv, says Serbs in the north of Kosovo are in a “grey zone” when it comes to their electricity bills. > “Some still favour of maintaining this status, partly because they do not know who to pay, no one has complete information about it, about the method of calculating electricity, or who will be responsible for payment,” Milicevic told BIRN. [0]: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/05/06/kosovo-pledges-to-solve-electricity-billing-problem-in-serb-north/ https://balkaninsight.com/2021/05/06/kosovo-pledges-to-solve...