Police Discovered Mysterious Graves, Turn Out To Be Bitcoin Mining Facilities

Recently, the police in Heilongjiang, China, received a complaint about a sudden loss in electricity from a local petroleum mining company. When the police got the spot for the investigation, they spotted something strange: There were two abnormal graves on a nearby field.

However, these graves didn’t have headstones and there was some firewood a few meters away from them. The police then discovered an entrance.

When entering through a door on the ground, they found a secret basement used for illegal bitcoin mining. The basement had a lighting system, electric supply, along with 8 bitcoin mining devices placed on a shelf.

After an investigation, the police identified the people behind this illegal activity are the same electricity thieves. Mining bitcoin requires a huge amount of electricity, so these criminals dug a basement to hide the devices and steal energy.

While the case may sound strange to some, it’s actually quite common in China. In April, police in the same province found a huge illegal bitcoin mining facility with 54 devices running on electricity stolen from a nearby petroleum mining plant. However, instead of faking the facility as a grave, these criminals installed their system under the ground inside a dog kennel.

Though bitcoin trading is illegal in China, mining bitcoin is not. Therefore, many companies have been using low-cost electricity sources to mine cryptocurrency and sell on licensed platforms in other countries.

These incidents are partly attributed to the fact that bitcoin price has been increasing lately.

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