{"id":12139,"date":"2024-11-13T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2024-11-13T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:12:40","slug":"thai-police-bust-nine-illegal-bitcoin-mining-rigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/thai-police-bust-nine-illegal-bitcoin-mining-rigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai police bust nine illegal bitcoin mining rigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Authorities in Thailand have dismantled nine illegal bitcoin mining operations and charged two suspects with stealing more than $280,000 worth of electricity, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began after a resident noticed multiple CCTV cameras installed at an apparently vacant house in southern Surat Thani province, said Pongsak Meemusik, a police officer who led the operation.<br \/>\nThe Central Investigation Bureau, in collaboration with the Provincial Electricity Authority, raided the house last week and found it was being used as an illicit bitcoin mining site.<br \/>\nTwo suspects, both aged 30, have been arrested on charges of theft.<\/p>\n<p>Pongsak told AFP that modified electricity meters were used to steal power worth more than 10 million baht ($280,000).<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation led police to uncover eight more houses in the province with similar setups.<br \/>\nMining virtual currencies such as bitcoin requires powerful computers that consume huge amounts of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin miners are considered manufacturers in Thailand and must pay associated taxes, but illegal mining has been on the rise for years.<\/p>\n<p>There have been multiple raids on illegal cryptocurrency mining rigs in this year alone.<br \/>\nBitcoin soared to a new record high of over $80,000 last week on the election of Donald Trump as US president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Thailand have dismantled nine illegal bitcoin mining operations and charged two suspects with stealing more than $280,000 worth of electricity, police said Wednesday. The investigation began after a resident noticed multiple CCTV cameras installed at an apparently vacant house in southern Surat Thani province, said Pongsak Meemusik, a police officer who led the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12141,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions\/12141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}