Paraguay Proposes Harsh Penalties for Illegal Bitcoin Mining
The Paraguayan government is urging lawmakers to pass a bill that would impose up to 10 years in jail for illegal bitcoin miners, in response to the large amounts of electricity theft threatening the state-owned National...
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