{"id":82400,"date":"2023-07-31T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82400"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:48:06","slug":"malaysia-cracks-down-on-illegal-cryptocurrency-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/malaysia-cracks-down-on-illegal-cryptocurrency-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia cracks down on illegal cryptocurrency mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s electricity supplier Sarawak Energy uncovered a mining farm in Miri, on the island of Borneo, whose owners were involved in illegal cryptocurrency mining. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theborneopost.com\/2023\/07\/27\/power-theft-operation-in-miri-uncovers-crypto-mining-activities\/\">local media<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>The farm consisted of 34 ASIC miners, connected to the grid via cable tapping. The perpetrators were identified following a public complaint.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/b291ba2d-fcc6-4195-8002-5824ac126a04-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"b291ba2d-fcc6-4195-8002-5824ac126a04\" class=\"wp-image-212564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/b291ba2d-fcc6-4195-8002-5824ac126a04-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/b291ba2d-fcc6-4195-8002-5824ac126a04-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/b291ba2d-fcc6-4195-8002-5824ac126a04-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/b291ba2d-fcc6-4195-8002-5824ac126a04.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: The Borneo Post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Sarawak Energy, the owners of the equipment were siphoning electricity for about 6,000 Malaysian ringgits per month ($1,300). Authorities seized the mining devices.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in Miri, city authorities confiscated more than 137 ASIC miners. In July 2021, local police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/malaysian-police-crush-1069-bitcoin-miners-with-a-steamroller\">destroyed a batch of 1,069 devices<\/a>, seized during raids.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, on July 26, Bitcoin&#8217;s mining difficulty fell by 2.94%. The metric stood at 52.33 TH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s electricity supplier Sarawak Energy uncovered a mining farm on Borneo whose owners were involved in illegal cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,1539],"class_list":["post-82400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-malaysia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82402,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82400\/revisions\/82402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}