Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, we're hearing from

Moldova in Eastern Europe and the mystery of one of the world's biggest unpaid gas bills. Transnistria

consumes gas, but they don't pay and we accumulate huge amount of debts. $7.5 billion.

It's almost the GDP of our country.

Free power for a region that's using it to mine millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin.

Are sanctioned Russian officials organizing a cryptocurrency boom?

The idea of a financial system without having to go through the traditional

banking system, highly controlled by the US, that makes cryptocurrencies really, really

interesting for states like Russia. That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC.

We now need somebody else to put the special pass in.

There we go.

Victor has opened the door for us.

And in we go.

And this is where the magic happens.

That was me last month in Tbilisi in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia,

visiting its largest Bitcoin mining facility. A multi-million dollar factory run by a firm called Bitfury. The machines there run

bewilderingly complex algorithms with enough computing power. They are producing vast amounts

of Bitcoin, each of which is worth about $9,000 on the current global market.

That is the sound of money being made.

Huge machines.

They look like isolation tanks. It like a noak liquid so right so this is water is that

water it's a special liquid it is not water which keeps temperature the same level are in like a 12

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