Malaysian authorities seized 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs, laid them out in a parking lot at police headquarters, and used a steamroller to crush them.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Hakemal Hawari told CNBC the crypto crackdown came after miners allegedly stole $2 million worth of electricity siphoned from Sarawak Energy power lines.Malaysian authorities seized 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs, laid them out in a parking lot at police headquarters, and used a steamroller to crush them, as part of a joint operation between law enforcement in the city of Miri and electric utility Sarawak Energy.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Hakemal Hawari told CNBC the crackdown came after miners allegedly stole $2 million worth of electricity siphoned from Sarawak Energy power lines.posted last week by local Sarawak news outlet Dayak Daily has since gone viral on social media. Acting on a tip, authorities on the island of Borneo confiscated the rigs in six separate raids between February and April. In total, police destroyed about $1.26 million of mining equipmentPolice opted to crush the mining gear rather than sell it, in accordance with a court order. Other countries, like China, have taken a different route,
Remind me to never visit Malaysia.
One thousand sixty nine. Hmmm. There's something fishy with that number. Hehe.
Pretty random driving 😂 🚜
Steam roller? It's a compactor
Every gamer triggered
Feeless zero-inflation $NANO hardmoney is going to do that to Bitcoin $BTC mining rigs worldwide. And it won't even need a steamroller to do it. Just what is it you'd say you do around here, Bitcoin filth? greencrypto cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies
nailheadparty Computers.
Governments don't want to lose control of their central currency. Lose control of money equals loss of control of their people
Another fad. Like dust in the wind
You savages! There are hungry games out there!
Nice!
There's goes the part of the U.S. Treasuries, future.
Is crypto going to ziptoe? Who knows It all blows.
I think it’s becoming a trend now. I want to destroy on a roller too😖
We get it China says they hate crypto for the people, I saw this video last week grandpa
Outstanding
willyyywww 😂😂
Awesome! The FBI should block Bitcoin internet access.
1,0 69...hmmmmm
ytregaws Yesssss!!!!
realDogecoinOG Another smart move from the forward thinking workd leaders of malaysia
Bitcoin miners committing crimes, surely not? Answer this? When miners reach their Coin issuance maximum who will be servicing transactions for what gain? The whole of Bitcoin sounds flawed to me. If they issue Coin infinitely to confirm transactions, they’re not worth much!
you can yell is very anti crypto. Every story lately from them covering it is very one sided. Wouldn't be surprised if they or the higher ups are shorting it.
Kinda like shooting yourself in the leg before a marathon inflation
“The books that the world call immoral are the books that show the world its own shame”~oscar wild on Bitcoin . The technology/money that central banks deem illegal, is the technology that shows them their own failure and render them obsolete.
Could have benefited the economy tremendously
Idiots.
Un like ethereum bit scam doesn't even have any actual use case Explain to them that it's literally a digital wallet like the wallet you have in your pocket it's never worth more than $10 and that's pushing it
Nice bitscam is just that You're wasting your time breaking the physical objects Just get educate your population on what money is and is not
Theyr all old non profitable rigs hence the criminals stealing electricity
sathishk95
Internet made Bitcoin believable as a trading item, but imagine Bitcoin without internet. It would be like someone saying, I have an imagine coin, you can buy it from me for $40k, someone then actually hand over hard cash for this imagine coin & put it in his imagine wallet. Nuts
I mean they could of just sold or recycled the machines
xavi_ttd Someone is having fun staying poor
Why didnt they just repurpose them?
realDogecoinOG Whatever can help Earth heal itself. That is what must be done if any of us are going to survive at all! Algarnon DogeArmy Dogmentum DogeCan
the beginning of the end on a wasteful energy expense on an unnecessary global asset.
horrible
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