{"id":11517,"date":"2021-07-16T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:01:04","slug":"big-ass-steamroller-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/16\/big-ass-steamroller-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Ass Steamroller&#8217; Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/7kv739\/police-destroy-1069-bitcoin-miners-with-big-ass-steamroller-in-malaysia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from VICE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Police Destroy 1,069 Bitcoin Miners With Big Ass Steamroller In Malaysia<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysian authorities did not mess around when they broke up a cryptocurrency mining farm and charged the operators with stealing electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/contributor\/andrew-hayward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrew Hayward<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Polis Miri lupus mesin bitcoin bernilai RM5.3 juta\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_tcg9kOfkg?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Bitcoin\u2019s price surged this spring to a new all-time high, the spotlight shining on its controversial mining process only got brighter. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many other cryptocurrencies use an energy-intensive \u201cproof-of-work\u201d process that makes computers on its decentralized network compete to solve complex mathematical equations to verify a batch of transactions; this makes the network less susceptible to certain attacks, and earns miners crypto rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the competitive element in the quest for valuable cryptocurrency, powerful mining rigs\u2014essentially, PCs purpose-built to maximize mining rewards\u2014are the preferred tool of serious crypto miners. They are expensive, and persistent demand and manufacturing delays can mean\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.bitmain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">months-long waits<\/a>\u00a0for rigs to be delivered. This week, police in Malaysia crushed 1,069 of them with a steamroller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/7kv739\/police-destroy-1069-bitcoin-miners-with-big-ass-steamroller-in-malaysia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at VICE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VICE Police Destroy 1,069 Bitcoin Miners With Big Ass Steamroller In Malaysia Malaysian authorities did not mess around when they broke up a cryptocurrency mining farm and charged the operators with stealing electricity. By\u00a0Andrew Hayward As Bitcoin\u2019s price surged this spring to a new all-time high, the spotlight shining on its controversial mining process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}