The Iranian government has finalized power tariffs for cryptocurrency miners and is rewarding individuals who expose illegal miners in the country.

According to Mostafa Rajabi, a spokesman of Iran’s energy ministry, anyone who exposes crypto miners using subsidized electricity will be rewarded handsomely. Such individuals will be given up to 20% of the recovery of the damaged caused to the national power grid. He said this in an interview on Wednesday with the local news agency, IRIB News.

Under these new regulations, crypto mining outside the national electricity grid is banned during peak hours of consumption in the country.

Rajabi added that an average price for the export of electricity will be fixed at $0.08 per kilowatt-hour. This is going to be used as a baseline to calculate the price of the power consumed by the crypto miners.

He also claims that the price will be half that figure in eight cold months of the year. However, it would quadruple ($0.16) for each KWh in the remaining four months of warm weather.

It was reported in July that, the economic commission of Iran has finalized power tariffs for crypto miners. These levies were based on similar tariffs used for electricity export. Using subsidized energy initially was putting pressure on the country’s national grid. It led to a 7% increase in their national energy consumption. About 1,000 Bitcoin mining machines from two former factories were seized by the country’s authorities following the increased electricity consumption.

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