I say: combine the two (cannabis farming and bitcoin mining)!
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Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity
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#32Those ASIC's look old, however if you're not paying for power then it's all profit.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get your reply? Obviously they're not facing charges for intent to supply drugs because that's not what they did?
Computer equipment getting seized is unusual for electricity theft.
If it's a business getting raided for a crime I would expect some seizure of computer equipment might happen.
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#35I say: combine the two (cannabis farming and bitcoin mining)!
There has got to be a British Gangster movie in this somewhere!
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#36How does the police think it is a good idea to make the raid when no one is inside. The article said that a lot of people go in and out everyday and no one was arrested.
I don’t get it.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get your reply? Obviously they're not facing charges for intent to supply drugs because that's not what they did?
Computer equipment getting seized is unusual for electricity theft.
In a consumer setting, I would be also be surprised. In this setting where it probably isn't clear exactly who the perpetrators are, you seize the assets until you can figure that out. I'm sure this wasn't all being done by "Sandwell Bitcoin Miners Ltd.", a registered British corporation majority owned by Joe Sandwell.
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#38"Detectives said they were tipped off about lots of people visiting the unit throughout the day and a police drone picked up a lot of heat coming from the building." Does that imply a drone with infrared capabilities?
...one has to wonder also why they needed to keep visiting the place once they set everything up.
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#39I say: combine the two (cannabis farming and bitcoin mining)!
There has got to be a British Gangster movie in this somewhere!
Just imagine that one scene from the Snatch! where Lincoln instead of a fianite tries to fend off a golden-painted manhole cover that the Pikies convinced him was a Bitcoin :)
Edit: Oh God, it's actually an actual thing that already exists: [1]
[1] https://bitcoinpenny.com/products/the-manhole-cover-physical...
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#40Nothing to do with me >.>