Cryptocurrency Mining Causes a Fire Incident in Russia

[Jeffery Musk]

According to the reports, cryptocurrency mining suspected fire and destroyed eight top floor flats and flooded as more number of firefighters tackled the flames.
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[eternalgloom]

From the article:

Russia has many miners, and this is partly due to cheap electricity. This is to the extent of miners mining cryptocurrencies in the residential blocks. In some cases, they break into power supplies to obtain free power and firefighters warn that this overheats circuits.

I suspect that this was the main reason that a fire broke out, you also see it sometimes when people steal power to grow weed for example.
It's not the cryptocurrency mining that caused the fire, it's most likely because this guy jerry-rigged something to get free power and did a very lousy job doing so.

Short circuit of one of the power supplies is also an option, but I'd suspect that has less chance to lead to a fire.

[TorbiK]

Nightmare! More than 40 apartments suffered from a fire. It's good that no one died. In Russia, in old houses, bad wiring. Most likely it is the cause of fire.

[pawel7777]

From the article:

Russia has many miners, and this is partly due to cheap electricity. This is to the extent of miners mining cryptocurrencies in the residential blocks. In some cases, they break into power supplies to obtain free power and firefighters warn that this overheats circuits.

I suspect that this was the main reason that a fire broke out, you also see it sometimes when people steal power to grow weed for example.
It's not the cryptocurrency mining that caused the fire, it's most likely because this guy jerry-rigged something to get free power and did a very lousy job doing so.
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Thought the same at first, but it's harder to steal electricity in apartment blocks and energy is quite cheap in Russia, so ne real need for that. If mining rigs were indeed the cause (it's not 100% confirmed), then it's most likely due to them overloading the circuit, i.e. multiple miners/other devices connected to one sockets via splitter.

Many of the old apartment buildings have electrical wiring hardly suitable even for the normal consumption, not to mention supporting mining hardware.

Remember kids - always ask a certified electrician for advice before converting your bedroom into mining farm.

Btw, here's the original article (with more pics):
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/cryptocurrency-goes-up-in-smoke-fire-caused-by-bitcoin-mining/

[localcrypto]

very sad for fire accident they must have taken precautions while setting up mining equipment

[budi691]

I personally am sorry for the incident. should if you want to plunge in the world of mining, you try to do a very complete preparation. this is also a warning to the miners around the world. keep safety bro

[Avaemily]

A residential building in Artem near Vladivostok in the Primorsky region, Russia went into flames as a result of massive power surge which caused overheating of circuits as the resident was mining cryptocurrency. The fire destroyed a total of 5,400 square feet of the building.its very sad.

[CryptoBry]

It would be easy to connect this fire to the Bitcoin mining but we should understand that it must be ignorance or neglect of safety standards that was really the cause of such a tragic incident. When we do mining (or whatever business we might be in), we should be following safety procedures much more because electrical problem can happen anytime. We should be aware that Bitcoin mining can be demanding a higher supply of electricity and that it is meet correctly otherwise we are endangering our properties and possibly lives around.