{"id":15100,"date":"2021-07-20T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T08:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/2021\/07\/20\/crypto-crushed-malaysia-steamrolls-bitcoin-machines\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T08:13:18","slug":"crypto-crushed-malaysia-steamrolls-bitcoin-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/2021\/07\/20\/crypto-crushed-malaysia-steamrolls-bitcoin-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto-crushed: Malaysia steamrolls Bitcoin machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crypto-crushed: Malaysia steamrolls Bitcoin machines\" title=\"Crypto-crushed: Malaysia steamrolls Bitcoin machines\" \/><\/div><p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Police in the Malaysian state of Sarawak recently found themselves saddled with 1,069 Bitcoin mining machines &#8211; and found an innovative way to dispose of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The cryptocurrency mining rigs, worth an estimated $1.25m (\u00a3920,000), had been seized in raids between February and April this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">According to police, the machines were being powered with stolen electricity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Bitcoin mining rigs carry out complex computations and in return are rewarded with the cryptocurrency &#8211; a process which consumes large amounts of energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Footage from Dayak Daily.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Police in the Malaysian state of Sarawak recently found themselves saddled with 1,069 Bitcoin mining machines &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[61,14883,3458,5521,14761],"class_list":["post-15100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mining","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocrushed","tag-machines","tag-malaysia","tag-steamrolls"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",0,0,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"medium":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"large":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"morenews-featured":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C8A9\/production\/_119496315_p09pwzbw.jpg",null,null,false]},"author_info":{"info":["wolf2021"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/category\/mining\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Mining<\/a>","tag_info":"Mining","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecryptowolf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}