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posted by janrinok on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the we'll-get-you-for-something dept.

At phys.org:

Prosecutors in the Netherlands are seeking prison sentences for two brothers who they say used stolen electricity to power computers they used to mine bitcoins worth an estimated 200,000 euros ($223,500).

Prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday that powerful computers used to "mine" the electronic currency were found in a building in the port city of Rotterdam that belonged to one of the brothers and also was used as a cannabis nursery.

Equipment in the nursery and the computers were running on illegally tapped electricity when they were discovered in 2014.

Also at AP.org.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:50PM (#405324)

    I hope they were stealing internet access with unactivated burner SIM cards.