Malaysian authorities have taken to an extreme measure to prove the point that it is illegal to steal electricity
Malaysian authorities have taken to an extreme measure to prove the point that it is illegal to steal electricity in order to run cryptomining rigs: crush them with a steamroller. The video making the rounds shows what looks like Antminers laid out and filling a parking lot at a police headquarters before the ruthless hands of justice drove an actual, honest-to-God steam roller over the entire lot of them. The 47-second video doesn't show each and every device getting crushed, but according to PC Gamer , none of the 1,069 illicit mining rig was spared, which is definitely not nice. The offending computers were seized in six raids conducted jointly by Malaysian police and Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) around an airport in the Sarawak region, where miners had allegedly tapped into SEB power lines to divert as much as $2 million in electricity to power the rigs.