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Home » Venezuela’s Main Bitcoin Market Shuts Down amid Arrest of Miners

Venezuela’s Main Bitcoin Market Shuts Down amid Arrest of Miners

Orlando Avendaño by Orlando Avendaño
February 6, 2017
in Economics, Featured, News Brief, NL Daily, South America, Technology, Venezuela
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Venezuela's Main Bitcoin Market
Two isolated incidents involving fraud and bitcoin mining have caused problems for the bitcoin community in Venezuela.

EspañolVenezuelan authorities detained four men suspected of bitcoin mining, forcing the country’s main exchange platform to temporarily shut down operations and lose its bank account.

On Friday, February 2, authorities confiscated 11,000 computers belonging to bitcoin miners.

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Mining is the process of adding transaction record to bitcoin’s purchase history to make it seem like they had really taken place.

Eusebio Gomez, 51, and Andres Alejandro Carrero Martinez, 35, were both arrested for cybercrime, financial terrorism, electricity theft and fraud.

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“What caused a reaction was the fact that 11,000 mining computers were consuming the same amount of energy that a whole city uses at a time of scarcity,” Surbitcoin Director Rodrigo Souza said.

Surbitcoin is the country’s main exchange platform for bitcoin.

In an isolated case, Adan Erick Tapia Salas and Edwald Antonio Tapia Salas were detained in Caracas for mining cryptocurrency, according to authorities.

The Tapia Salas brothers were tracked through the online market site Mercado Libre. Their equipment — valued at US $334 million — was also seized.

The discovery of these enormous mining facilities is complicating bitcoin exchange with local currency. After February 2nd, Surbitcoin announced that their bank account was revoked, and advised users to withdraw their money in order to avoid losses.

The company is expecting to renew its operations in Venezuela; however, Surbitcoin said the site LocalBitcoins will be relocating.

“We have not been contacted by the government, but our bank does not want to be involved in this, so it revoked out account. We are reaching out to other banking partners,” Souza said.

Source: Reason

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Orlando Avendaño

Orlando Avendaño

Orlando Avendaño is Editor-in-Chief at The PanAm Post. A columnist from Venezuela. He studied journalism at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. He is the author of «Días de sumisión: cómo el sistema democrático venezolano perdió la batalla contra Fidel».

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