Massive cryptomining rig found under the floor of a courtroom in Poland!

[thewayne]

Very interesting. Arrests have been made and a computer consulting firm responsible for maintaining systems in the court house has been fired.

The computer rig was not connected to the court's network - apparently it had its own "modems", but it was stealing a significant amount of power, which makes it a prosecutable offense. There is also no indication as to how long the rig had been running. I'm sure the investigation will uncover these points of information.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/secret-cryptomining-rig-found-hidden-in-the-floors-of-a-polish-court/

https://slashdot.org/story/23/11/21/2213231/massive-cryptocurrency-rig-discovered-under-polish-courts-floor-stealing-power

Comments

[rain_gryphon]

How very odd.

[thewayne]

Privatize the profit, get someone else to cover the costs!  Win-win.  Until you get caught.

[disneydream06]

Good luck investigators. :o
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

Yet more proof that cryptocurrency has no real value, when people start deciding that the only way to make their mining rig viable is to make someone else pay the electric costs for it and to hide it in other places.

[thewayne]

It's been proven time and again that the most common use for cryptocurrency is in the criminal realm.  Either doing criminal activity or paying ransoms.