News & Reviews:   mining

Malaysia has reported losses totalling RM4.57 billion from illegal electricity use connected to bitcoin mining between 2020 and August 2025, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Transition Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof. Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) uncovered 13827 premises engaged in electricity theft for cryptocurrency mining over the past five years, highlighting both economic and safety concerns.

The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) yesterday revealed that a total of 627 individuals and RM69.8 worth of itemas have been seized since 2020 in cases related to illegal bitcoin mining in our country. Furthermore, the cases involved electricity theft for the cryptocurrency mining activities.

Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani in a statement yesterday said that the arrests were made possible thanks to cooperation between Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and the Criminal Investigation Department (JSJ). In fact, PDRM even received 9 Mitsubishi Tritons from TNB to be used for combating electricity theft in Malaysia.

Can you imagine if those miners are using RTX GPUs? Luckily, these aren't. It seems that a group of individuals have been mining bitcoins and not only that, they also bypassed the electricity reading which costs Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) more than RM8 million losses.