There is also mining done with subsidized electricity in aid stations.
Obviously a refugee who shows up is not bringing their own miners... the people benefitting are probably the aid workers and/or friends who caught on to the good gossip.
It's done on a small scale, because it can't overload the infrastructure to the point where the aid station is no longer able to subsidize power.
I had a difficult time forming an opinion about such mining at first, although reached the ultimate conclusion that I'd rather have those people learning about cryptocurrencies and arguing about costs of their aid station, than just encouraging that electricity only be used for sitting around and scrolling TikTok; if ultimately the miners got caught and banned from the aid station, then that was a consequence of their greed and political failure to negotiate a beneficial arrangement.
obligatory note: I wasn't directly involved with either side of such mining activity, although heard rumours of it for a long time, and eventually spoke briefly once with a person who admitted mining that way.
There is also mining done with subsidized electricity in aid stations.
Obviously a refugee who shows up is not bringing their own miners... the people benefitting are probably the aid workers and/or friends who caught on to the good gossip.
It's done on a small scale, because it can't overload the infrastructure to the point where the aid station is no longer able to subsidize power.
I had a difficult time forming an opinion about such mining at first, although reached the ultimate conclusion that I'd rather have those people learning about cryptocurrencies and arguing about costs of their aid station, than just encouraging that electricity only be used for sitting around and scrolling TikTok; if ultimately the miners got caught and banned from the aid station, then that was a consequence of their greed and political failure to negotiate a beneficial arrangement.
obligatory note: I wasn't directly involved with either side of such mining activity, although heard rumours of it for a long time, and eventually spoke briefly once with a person who admitted mining that way.