News ASMR for Gamers? Watch Police Steamroll $1.6 Million in Bitcoin Equipment

[Joseph_138]

So there's a world shortage of chips and they are steamrolling computers?

These aren't computers, they're purpose built mining rigs. They can't be reused for anything else.

 

[geogan]

The main crime here is that this youtube video is only in 360P resolution in 2021. What kind of potato-cam are they using over there 😵

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Does seems to be not very efficient way to crush them and I would hope this is the first step in recycling them.

Very likely, or at least it could be. Most recovery of rare earth metals and such begins with mashing things up. ¯\(ツ)/¯

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

I guess these things could be reused like in schools for kids ? This is just stupid. Shame on them

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

Does seems to be not very efficient way to crush them and I would hope this is the first step in recycling them.

Maybe they should of use dynamite

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

The main crime here is that this youtube video is only in 360P resolution in 2021. What kind of potato-cam are they using over there 😵

Explains alot in this video they cant afford good camera but can afford the destroy 10s of thousands of dollars of PC equipment

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Explains alot in this video they cant afford good camera but can afford the destroy 10s of thousands of dollars of PC equipment

The PSUs are the only "PC equipment" and those look like server power supplies. As for the ASICs, probably the only reason they were running these was due to the "free" electricity. They look like much older Antminer designs, which would now mine Bitcoin at a loss in most regions. Stealing power on the other hand means they can keep going even when technically losing money on power. I suspect the FIFA 2021 farming on the PS4 that we mentioned in another article was a similar story, though I could be wrong. If you could farm FIFA'21 players and use 150W per PS4 or something (about $0.36 per day in electricity normally), would you make enough to pay for the power without stealing?