The CEO of the Tehran Province Electricity Distribution Company announced a decrease in theft of electricity industry equipment and said: "Over the past three years, we have collected about 24,000 unauthorized miners consuming 50 megawatts, and we ask all subscribers to report any unusual noises and receive a cash reward of one million tomans for each miner discovered without revealing their names."

All compatriots can benefit from a cash reward by sending an SMS to the number announced by the Big Tehran Electricity Distribution Company by introducing unauthorized miners.

The executive of the plan to monitor and organize cryptocurrency mining said: after identifying the unauthorized miners of cryptocurrency, the amount of energy consumed and the duration of use are checked and its price is calculated and received from them at the daily rate of the permitted cryptocurrency, the violator is also presented to the court and the miner's device It will be recorded and delivered to the judicial and security authorities and destroyed.

The installation of smart meters has been considered as a priority of the 14th government, after which the identification and discovery of unauthorized miners will speed up and it can be said that smart meters will be a barrier to the activities of unauthorized miners.

Mining or extraction of digital currency requires complex calculations that are performed through miner devices. The high power consumption of these devices also causes damages such as voltage drop, increase in distribution network losses, and occupying the capacity of the power supply network.