This is outrageous...
Whoever organized this mining operation is really stupid, and really don't care for their lives. We've all seen stories of people stealing electricity from offices, workplaces, and even public places, but this takes it to another level.
To be fair though, these freak accidents are hard to prevent, who would have thought that guards would try and utilize nuclear power to earn a couple of dollars worth of BTC. It's not very recyclable energy and is definitely too much power for mining BTC.
The idea of using nuclear power for crypto mining is not new, Belarus president is have plan to build mining farms near a nuclear power plant and use surplus energy for mining Bitcoins.
Quite certain I read in 2017 also of several new nuclear plants in the Russian Federation that was going to power a couple of blockchain hubs, including crypto mining. I even remember that it wasn't all going to be Bitcoin (this was when BTC was really heating up in price). I suppose if you have surplus energy, which you will if you have a modern nuke generating it, then mining all those low value coins in the hope of them rising in the future's a low-risk strategy (since it's surplus).
In any case, will be interesting to see impacts.
If it's the surplus energy, it's not as bad, but I think it's a bit of an overkill using such a dangerous energy source to power BTC mining.
, i wonder how anyone could do such activities inside a nuclear power station, if anyone could do these illegal activities in a nuclear power plant how about their bloody security, it is a serious security breach or lack of it altogether.
