SUMMARY
The Center for Monitoring and Forecasting of Natural and Technogenic Antistikhia Issues issued a statement in which it stated that the extraction of cryptocurrencies may cause an increase in the number of accidents in power facilities. This is reported by RIA Novosti.
According to the specialists of the center, mining uses the computer power of computers and requires a high energy consumption, which increases the load on power grids, which are not calculated for this. All this, according to experts, creates fire risks.
"The probability of accidents in power grids is increasing due to an increase in the load on them in the case of Crypto-currency"
In turn, a specialist in the field of blocking technologies, Alexander Kitchenko, in an interview with "The Fifth Channel", said that attention should be paid not to mining in general, but to the attitude of people towards security requirements.
"Technically, yes, a fire can always happen, especially if the equipment is badly assembled and connected, and if a person does not follow it, but once again, the main thing to understand here is that the reason is not in the mining itself in itself, but in the specific negligence of the person who has installed this equipment badly and followed it badly, "
The expert also drew attention to the fact that when installing the mining equipment, one should remember about possible overloads. At the same time, the spark in the device does not always cause the malfunction; more often than not, the old wiring can not support the load.
Recall that at the end of February, the head of the faction of "United Russia" in the State Duma, Sergey Neverov proposed to limit the extraction of cryptocurrencies, because it can entail a danger for people.
