News & Reviews:   mining

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.