The company failed to repeat its success.
In 2011, a former employee of Qiwi through the company's self-service terminals received 500 thousand bitcoins. The head of the company Sergey Solonin told about it at the lecture at the Moscow school of communications MACS, without revealing the identity of the former employee.!
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According to Solonin, the activity was noticed by the security service — its employees found that in shops where there are no people, at night the terminals work under heavy load and constantly transmit information. After a three-month investigation, it turned out that the technical Director of Qiwi installed applications for bitcoin mining on the terminals and already managed to get 500 thousand coins.
What struck me most was the amount of it for three months nominal 500 thousand coins and it was worth $5 million And now is worth billions of dollars. But at that time, $5 million was a big amount for me, and I thought, "wow, that's a big topic! We don't know how these stupid terminals a penny earned, and there is a gold mine!»
Sergey Solonin
the head of Qiwi
Solonin has demanded the return of nominingue bitcoins, since their production was used the company's resources, but the CTO has filed a letter of resignation and left the company. According to the head of Qiwi, there was no actual damage to the company:"there is no direct loss, it did not cause damage — only to landlords who pay for electricity somewhere."
What the former employee did after leaving the company and how to dispose of bitcoins, Solonin did not tell. After his dismissal Qiwi head of the company ordered to start mining on all terminals, but by the time the application is restored, the mining process has become too complicated and the terminals did not cope with the task, added Solonin.
Now it seems: probably, it was necessary to negotiate with him somehow, for $5 million to buy all this, because now it is some catastrophic money.
Sergey Solonin
the head of Qiwi
In the last three years, Qiwi has managed to open three mining centers in Iceland, the company is also developing chips for cryptocurrency mining. Solonin himself also deals with cryptocurrencies-for example, he said that he took part in the telegram ICO.