To "mine" and generate Bitcoin, two men in Huainan stole more than 30,000 kWh of electricity

Huainan.com "In order to 'mine' and generate bitcoins, some people have actually extended their evil hands to the mining area to steal electricity, stealing more than 30,000 kWh of electricity in just one month." On June 26, reporters from Huaihe Morning News and Huainan.com learned from the Xinji Mining District Public Security Bureau that the two suspects in this case have been criminally detained and the case is being further handled.

The police officer in charge of the case said that in mid-June, an enterprise in Xinji Mining District reported to the Xinji Mining District Public Security Bureau that the company's electricity consumption had surged since May this year. After a preliminary inspection, they suspected that someone might have stolen their electricity. The leader of the Xinji Mining District Public Security Bureau personally took charge of the scene, and the police of the Public Security Brigade quickly launched an investigation. After a secret investigation, the police locked in the suspect of stealing electricity, and decisively took action to verify the suspect's theft of electricity on the spot, fixed the evidence, and arrested the suspect.

The police told reporters from Huaihe Morning News and Huainan.com that "mining" to generate bitcoins consumes a lot of electricity. The criminal suspects Du and Song, who dreamed of getting rich by "mining", used their crooked idea of ​​saving electricity in the Xinji mining area in order to "reduce costs". In the early stage, they rented the third floor of an Internet cafe near the mining area, and then moved 58 "mining machines" and 12 "card machines" that consumed a lot of electricity, privately connected wires and stole electricity to operate. In order to save operating costs, the person in charge of the Internet cafe, Zhang, also put wires on the stolen wires, and used this to reduce the house rental fees of Du and Song, constituting a joint crime. At present, the criminal suspects Du and Zhang have been detained according to law, and the criminal suspect Song has been put on the Internet for pursuit.