If the guy they arrested was a miner, will he have to serve jail time or just a “time out” penalty?
So the moral of the story is,
A) Mining $3mm of coin will cost you (or someone else) $3.25mm of electricity.
B) Make sure it’s someone else’s electricity.
C) Don’t get caught.
He had A and B down.
my understanding is,
in most the world,
electricity is free, five finger discount
or not.
please enlighten me
When I read “miner”, I thought that the article would be about someone who worked at extracting minerals, not someone who produced cryptocurrency.
Just some advice from an electrical contractor friend. He told me of a case where the utility had a strong suspicion that electricity was being stolen from a residence. So they put a second meter up on the pole and compared the readings.
Obviously the pole meter recorded more usage, so they dug up the line to house and found the tap. The guy owned the house and this was also an electrical contractor...so he got the book thrown at him.