Power Company Tip Leads to Bitcoin Mining Raid - page 6.

wasserman99

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Quote from: adamstgBit on September 13, 2014, 10:19:41 PM

everyone make sure not to use too much power or the cops are gonna break down your door and arrest you, even if you didn't do anything wrong. this the motherfuicking proff!

how much weed did he have???

why did they take the computers? Huh

is it illegal to have computers!?

this is fucking BS.

sue the bastards for the missed mining income, make them pay in BTC.

The issue was not that he was mining bitcoin. The issue was that he was using a lot of electricity which was probably cause to search his house. When the police searched his house they found drugs which lead to his arrest. He was not charged with anything to do with him mining

notbatman

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Keep in mind the police already knew who lived in the house before they raided.

This guy has a previous history of MJ growing.

If you are going to run Bitcoin farms it is not advisable to run MJ farms concurrently.

~BCX~

More info

http://www.whsv.com/news/headlines/Pot-Bust-Leads-To-Investigation-into-Mans-Computer-228429621.html

What if your warehouse is in Colorado?

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You lead and I'll watch you walk away.

http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/16/land-of-the-free-us-has-5-of-the-worlds-population-and-25-of-its-prisoners/

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Hold on second, they sized "a number of physical Bitcoins"?

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This is scary, scary stuff. Makings of a police state with craven bureaucrats who think nothing of ratting on people to higher authorities. Disgraceful on every count.

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a creepy power company, a creepy police force, and an even creepier legal system

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everyone make sure not to use too much power or the cops are gonna break down your door and arrest you, even if you didn't do anything wrong. this the motherfuicking proff!

how much weed did he have???

why did they take the computers? Huh

is it illegal to have computers!?

this is fucking BS.

sue the bastards for the missed mining income, make them pay in BTC.

Jordan23

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In NC the drug paraphernalia charge is more serious than a misdemeanor possession because the law does not distinguish between a weed pipe or a crack pipe. All paraphernalia is lumped in together. Maybe its different in VA.

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Virginia bitcoin enthusiast, Jonas Diener, 37, will avoid jail time for cannabis discovered in his home during a police raid. The home invasion occurred after a power company official tipped off police that the bitcoin miner was using an “incredible” amount of electricity in his home.

The employee told law enforcement officials the house was using eight times the amount of power a typical home that size would use. This caused police suspicion of a marijuana growing operation in the home. During the raid, police arrested the man and seized all his Bitcoin mining equipment, a number of physical bitcoins, and a small quantity of marijuana.

Per the terms of the plea agreement, the man received six months in jail, all suspended, for misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, while a more serious charge of marijuana possession was dropped. The man appeared in Rockingham County Circuit Court on Thursday.

Bitcoin is a software-based online payment system described by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and introduced as open-source software in 2009. Payments are recorded in a public ledger using its own unit of account, which is also called bitcoin.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/power-company-tip-leads-to-bitcoin-mining-raid/

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