Xiangyang investigates and punishes the theft of state electricity to mine Bitcoin, the first case in the city

Original title: Xiangyang investigates the city's first case of stealing state electricity to mine Bitcoin

Since the beginning of this year, as the price of Bitcoin has continued to soar, some people have taken risks to get Bitcoin. At the end of last month, the Xiangzhou Power Supply Company investigated and dealt with the city's first case of producing Bitcoin by stealing national electricity.

On the 30th of last month, the State Grid Xiangzhou Power Supply Company inspected the power facilities in the Xiangzhou Commercial City area and found that the power consumption of an Internet cafe was extremely abnormal. After cutting off the power supply of the Internet cafe, the power supply inspectors found that there was still electronic equipment running in a room in a corner of the Internet cafe:

Wang Yongmeng, Party Branch Secretary of Zhangwan Power Supply Station of State Grid Xiangzhou District Power Supply Company, told reporters that when they pushed open the door of the room, they found that thirty or forty graphics cards were still running and the fans next to them were running at high speed even though the Internet cafe was out of power. They therefore suspected that the Internet cafe was stealing electricity.

As he was caught in the act, the Internet cafe manager admitted to stealing electricity. Inspectors later learned that the electronic devices in operation were not ordinary ones, but “mining machines” specifically used to produce Bitcoin.

It is understood that Bitcoin is actually a kind of online virtual currency. Due to its limited quantity and the market boom in recent years, the price has soared. The mining machine for Bitcoin is a computer used to earn Bitcoin. This type of computer generally has professional mining chips and mostly works by burning graphics cards. Since the mining machine requires 24 hours of non-stop work, it consumes a lot of electricity.

Wang Yongmeng, Party Branch Secretary of Zhangwan Power Supply Station of State Grid Xiangzhou District Power Supply Company, said that according to their calculations, there are a total of ten mining machines in the Internet cafe, each of which is 1.2 kilowatts. The amount of electricity stolen every day is more than 300 degrees, and the electricity bill generated is more than 300 yuan.

Afterwards, the person in charge of the Internet cafe said that he had started mining Bitcoin by stealing electricity in July this year. However, due to the fierce competition among mining practitioners and the fact that the mining machine was still being debugged and adjusted, he had not gained anything in the past few months. Currently, the Xiangzhou District Power Supply Company is organizing a special person to conduct an in-depth investigation into this case:

Wang Yongmeng, Party Branch Secretary of Zhangwan Power Supply Station of State Grid Xiangzhou District Power Supply Company, told reporters that for this kind of electricity theft, they will recover the electricity bill based on data analysis and divide it by three times the electricity bill for breach of contract. If it constitutes a crime, they will be held criminally liable in accordance with the Criminal Law.