{"id":1657,"date":"2021-05-28T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/police-find-bitcoin-mine-using-stolen-electricity-in-west-midlands\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:51:42","slug":"police-find-bitcoin-mine-using-stolen-electricity-in-west-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/police-find-bitcoin-mine-using-stolen-electricity-in-west-midlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find bitcoin mine using stolen electricity in West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers expected to discover a cannabis farm when they raided building on industrial estate<\/p>\n<p>Police have discovered a cryptocurrency operation that used stolen electricity to mine bitcoin in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from West Midlands police raided a building in an industrial estate on 18 May expecting to find a cannabis farm, but instead stumbled upon the cryptocurrency scheme. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/28\/police-find-bitcoin-mine-using-stolen-electricity-west-midlands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6d3183750e0160c9c5d0664e28a6bf410de1f7fb\/2_294_1218_731\/master\/1218.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bf0d27d25f96cf22c69eca47499d2303\" title=\"Police find bitcoin mine using stolen electricity in West Midlands\" \/>Officers expected to discover a cannabis farm when they raided building on industrial estate<br \/>\nPolice have discovered a cryptocurrency operation that used stolen electricity to mine bitcoin in the West Midlands.<br \/>\nOfficers from West Midlands police raided a building in an industrial estate on 18 May expecting to find a cannabis farm, but instead stumbled upon the cryptocurrency scheme. No arrests have been made. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers expected to discover a cannabis farm when they raided building on industrial estate Police have discovered a cryptocurrency operation that used stolen electricity to mine bitcoin in the West Midlands. Officers from West Midlands police raided a building in an industrial estate on 18 May expecting to find a cannabis farm, but instead stumbled &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/police-find-bitcoin-mine-using-stolen-electricity-in-west-midlands\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police find bitcoin mine using stolen electricity in West Midlands<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}