A news report is circling that says Iran is paying people bounties to out illegal bitcoin mining operations.
The news report can be seen here:
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/11/14/bitcoin-iranian-government-bounty-mining-snitches/
The bounty is said to be 20% of whatever is recovered from the miners.
It appears it's not illegal there to mine bitcoin, you must just register as a mining business to do so and follow applicable mining regulations.
I guess sometimes it does pay to be a rat.
