The Russian cryptocurrency market is now the third largest in the world and is growing at an accelerated pace, which can become a decent source of income in the state budget.
Major players are also looking at this industry. Thus, BitRiver is implementing a project for mining cryptocurrencies using renewable energy sources together with Gazprom Neft, which supplies electricity for mining coins using associated gas for BitRiver.
And everything would be fine if you choose a suitable partner who provides ready-made solutions for large-scale projects. But there is information that Gazprom Neft’s partner is close to bankruptcy.
Even a quick check of open sources shows that there are now two lawsuits against BitRiver in court: for 534.7 million rubles from 21 Century LLC and for 7.9 million rubles from Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant JSC. The company has overdue lease payments in excess of 850 million rubles, where the smallest debt is less than 1.5 million rubles. Moreover, the company does not pay for rent systematically: if in 2021 the arrears reached 50 million rubles, in 2022 250 million rubles, then in 2023 there is already a record 850 million rubles. Moreover, there is information about tax claims from the state for almost 1 billion rubles on suspicion of understating the income tax base and receiving an unjustified VAT deduction.
It turns out that the “largest” blockchain data center in the CIS cannot pay off its lease debt of less than 1.5 million or pay 8 million under the contract for the supply of equipment.
Let’s not even remember about the import of equipment at a reduced cost through Belarus, to which customs still turns a blind eye. It looks like the cryptocurrency market has its own Bitpapa.
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