600 Bitcoin Miners Stolen From Data-Center Is Iceland's Biggest Heist...
Local media has dubbed it the "Big Bitcoin Heist" - which has already seen eleven arrests of those suspected to hold upward involved. Among those suspects - the safety guard inward accuse of protecting them.
But fifty-fifty stranger - all those arrests, together with all the same no miners recovered.
"This is a grand theft on a scale unseen before, everything points to this beingness a highly organized crime." says Icelandic police clitoris original Olafur Helgi Kjartansson.
Mining hardware has larn a target of thefts worldwide, since those who pocket it don't bespeak to resell it to brand a net - they tin simply purpose them to mine Bitcoin themselves.
Over the final span years Iceland's cheap electricity has drawn inward Bitcoin mining operations from around the world.
Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk
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