{"id":3074,"date":"2019-07-13T00:13:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/chinese-police-crack-down-on-bitcoin-miners-over-3m-of-stolen-electricity"},"modified":"2019-07-13T00:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:13:57","slug":"chinese-police-crack-down-on-bitcoin-miners-over-3m-of-stolen-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Chinese police crack down on bitcoin miners over $3m of stolen electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in eastern city of Zhenjiang confiscate almost 4,000 of bitcoin mining devices<\/p>\n<p>Police in eastern China have cracked down on a ring of illicit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/bitcoin\">bitcoin<\/a> miners who stole nearly $3m (\u00a32.4m) worth of electricity to generate the digital currency, prompting a local power company to tip off investigators, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Zhenjiang, in eastern Jiangsu province, said officers confiscated almost 4,000 mining devices from an illicit bitcoin operation that stole nearly 20m yuan in power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/chinese-police-crack-down-on-bitcoin-miners-over-3m-of-stolen-electricity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in eastern city of Zhenjiang confiscate almost 4,000 of bitcoin mining devicesPolice in eastern China have cracked down on a ring of illicit bitcoin miners who stole nearly $3m (\u00a32.4m) worth of electricity to generate the digital currency, promp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,309,50,310,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bitcoin","category-china","category-cryptocurrencies","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}