Chinese Police Seize Thousands of Miners, Arrest Dozens of Scammers
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Chinese Police Seize Thousands of Miners, Arrest Dozens of Scammers

THELOGICALINDIAN - In the aftermost brace of canicule Chinese media accept appear on badge armament in one arena of the all-inclusive Asian country abduction abutting to 7000 mining rigs application baseborn electricity and in addition arena arresting 72 multilevel business arrangement operators for declared fraud

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Police Seize Thousands of Miners

Chinese badge armament from the burghal of Tangshan, Hebei province, accept bedeviled 6,890 bitcoin mining rigs, accompaniment anchorperson CCTV (China Central Television) reported on Monday. According to the address this was the aftereffect of “special operations to action the abomination of ability theft” by accessible aegis agencies in assorted places beyond the country, in affiliation with the Accompaniment Electric Ability Department.

The Hebei Tangshan Badge affirmation that back April aftermost year they accept conducted absolute inspections of added than 70,000 households, factories, mines, courtyards, merchants, communities and villages, in affiliation with ability accumulation and added departments. During one of these investigations, the badge aboriginal begin a apprehensive clandestine agent in a admixture in a apple in Shuangqiao Town, Kaiping District, Tangshan, Hebei. After investigating the site, it was bent that the abreast affiliated agent was acclimated to abundance bitcoin. They bedeviled 1,906 bitcoin miners.

The badge additionally followed a advance and bedeviled three high-power transformers and 790 bitcoin mining machines that were allegedly burglary electricity in a adjacent village. According to the police, a asperous appraisal of the ability burning of the 790 bitcoin mining machines that were bedeviled in that one adventure gives them the aforementioned burning of electricity for one day of connected operation agnate to the electricity burning of added than 5,000 Chinese households a day. Badge said that the crackdown on electricity annexation will continue.

72 Cloud Token Operators Arrested

Police armament in the burghal of Taiyuan, Shanxi province, accept arrested 72 Cloud Token operators according to an official video aggregate on amusing media belvedere Weibo on Monday. The video shows admiral carriage off dozens of bodies in a bounded alternation station, easily abandoned abaft their backs, cutting numbered chicken vests and atramentous sacks over their heads. The explanation claims that Taiyuan Public Security auspiciously detected the aboriginal Cloud Token belvedere case in the burghal that acclimated blockchain to barter basic currencies in a betray involving added than 30 actor yuan (over $4 million) and added than 300 victims.

According to media letters from the country, Cloud Token is a Chinese multi-level business arrangement with aerial barometer fees that started operating in January of this year. It is said to accept similarities to the massive Plus Token Ponzi betray that some accept is amenable for crashing crypto prices.

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