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Title: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: frog on May 25, 2011, 07:00:36 AM http://blogs.computerworld.com/18335/bitcoin_miners_busted_police_confuse_bitcoin_power_usage_for_pot_farm (http://blogs.computerworld.com/18335/bitcoin_miners_busted_police_confuse_bitcoin_power_usage_for_pot_farm)
Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: SomeoneWeird on May 25, 2011, 07:06:49 AM omg wow :S
Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: oVPN on May 25, 2011, 08:14:00 AM thats really LOL and WOW, so you are pot grower if you need more than xx kWh per day!?
hopefully this will not happen in germany this way, where are your rights? oO i cant believe Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: drgr33n on May 25, 2011, 11:15:28 AM lol I think pot growing would be much more profitable at this difficulty :D
Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: commlinx on May 25, 2011, 11:26:10 AM I remember years ago someone telling me authorities looked at your power bill to try and find people growing. Because of all the legitimate reasons for your power to go up I'd put it down at the time to paranoia from them smoking too many cones :D.
Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: frog on May 25, 2011, 11:31:33 AM thats really LOL and WOW, so you are pot grower if you need more than xx kWh per day!? hopefully this will not happen in germany this way, where are your rights? oO i cant believe http://www.faz.net/artikel/C31034/fahnder-entdecken-cannabis-plantage-gras-im-grenzverkehr-30098401.html (http://www.faz.net/artikel/C31034/fahnder-entdecken-cannabis-plantage-gras-im-grenzverkehr-30098401.html) "Häufig führte der auffällig hohe Stromverbrauch die LKA-Fahnder der Projektgruppe Cannabis auf die Spur der Treibhäuser." (Frequently the remarkably high current consumption led the police investigators of the project group cannabis on the trace of the greenhouses.) Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: Basiley on May 25, 2011, 03:52:24 PM I remember years ago someone telling me authorities looked at your power bill to try and find people growing. Because of all the legitimate reasons for your power to go up I'd put it down at the time to paranoia from them smoking too many cones :D. it China its may be different:dialogue during police raid: "are you mining bitcoins ? no, sir. just growing marijuana and make child porn. ok then." Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: bulanula on May 25, 2011, 06:44:11 PM I remember years ago someone telling me authorities looked at your power bill to try and find people growing. Because of all the legitimate reasons for your power to go up I'd put it down at the time to paranoia from them smoking too many cones :D. it China its may be different:dialogue during police raid: "are you mining bitcoins ? no, sir. just growing mariuana and make child porn. ok then." LOL made my day ! Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: someguy123 on May 29, 2011, 03:06:54 AM That's pretty stupid, the cops see high power usage, the first thing they'll assume "WE FOUND A MARIJUANA GROWER!", and not "Probably just some gamer with a powerful computer.", I really never thought they'd think you're growing weed just because you're using a bit too much power.
Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: FreeMoney on May 29, 2011, 03:55:39 AM They should have used this as a plot device in Farenheight 411.
"We noticed you've had a light on for most of the night. You aren't reading books are you?" "No sir, those are grow lights. These are my hemp plants." "I heard you can make paper from that plant. We'll be keeping a close eye on you." Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: airdata on May 29, 2011, 05:47:21 PM Thank god nobody got hurt... plenty of videos of over-zealous police on pot raids going in guns blazin.
I wonder how that went? "Sir, what is this contraption with 8 video cards sticking out of it?" Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: mewantsbitcoins on May 29, 2011, 05:51:28 PM GET A MINING RIG - SAVE A POT FARM!!!
We are going to make this world better ;D Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: AtlasONo on May 29, 2011, 09:18:08 PM Claims some guy in IRC ::)
Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: grue on May 29, 2011, 09:31:22 PM Quote The Canadian town of Mission, BC has a bylaw that allows the town's Public Safety Inspection Team to search people's homes for grow ops if they are using more than 93 kWh of electricity per day. [citation needed]Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: Explodicle on May 29, 2011, 09:43:51 PM Quote The Canadian town of Mission, BC has a bylaw that allows the town's Public Safety Inspection Team to search people's homes for grow ops if they are using more than 93 kWh of electricity per day. [citation needed]http://www.mission.ca/psit/ Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: FreeMoney on May 29, 2011, 09:48:45 PM Thank god nobody got hurt... plenty of videos of over-zealous police on pot raids going in guns blazin. I wonder how that went? "Sir, what is this contraption with 8 video cards sticking out of it?" "It's going to eat your monetary syst-I mean I like to play video games." Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: ribuck on May 29, 2011, 10:29:16 PM This so-called "bust" is an urban legend that almost certainly didn't happen.
Someone wrote an article about a blog post about an IRC chat where someone said something that supported a rumor about the situation where a minehouse could be mistaken for a growhouse. There's more evidence for the existence of so-called "gods" than for the existence of the raid being discussed here. Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: AtlasONo on May 29, 2011, 11:04:12 PM Quote http://www.mission.ca/psit/ Quote excessive electricity consumption is often an indicator of a serious safety hazard. Properties, which exceed the mandated threshold of 93 kwh/day, would be reviewed and inspected. The PSIT inspects homes which are using more than 93 kwh/day of electricity and are observed to show signs of being a controlled substance property. If the three-person inspection team reaches a consensus that there is no obvious reason for the property to be consuming abnormal amounts of electricity, or that the property exhibits one of the obvious signs of a controlled substance property, a notice of inspection is posted to the door of the property indicating that the PSIT will return for a home inspection in 24 hours. 24 hours later, the PSIT returns to perform a property inspection – for safety reasons, a RCMP officer is within sight distance (typically at the end of the driveway). If the resident of the property grants access to PSIT, the team performs an inspection, which typically takes between 30 to 90 minutes. If PSIT is denied access the team leaves and returns the next day with a warrant from a Justice of the Peace. If the warrant specifies, an RCMP member may accompany the PSIT inside the property for the inspection. This is not a raid Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: Anonymous on May 29, 2011, 11:40:46 PM Grow a crop and turn it into biomass to fuel a generator to mine bitcoins ?
The only thing this story is missing was the cops shooting some guy's dog - oh and the truth. :) Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: Fiyasko on May 31, 2011, 04:35:55 PM Grow a crop and turn it into biomass to fuel a generator to mine bitcoins ? The only thing this story is missing was the cops shooting some guy's dog - oh and the truth. :) Bwaaahahhahahhaaaa Title: Re: Bitcoin-miner busted by police (Police confuse bitcoin power usage for pot farm) Post by: barbarousrelic on May 31, 2011, 05:54:13 PM Claims some guy in IRC ::) Indeed. This entire story is a prime example of Internet hysteria. I explicitly remember someone on either this forum or Reddit/r/bitcoin saying 'oh- wouldn't it be funny if the cops started raiding these bitcoin miners under suspicion for growing?' A day or two later this story appears, judging from some guy on IRC who got picked up by a low-level blog. From there, much like fractional-reserve banking, the story was pyramided up by more and more legitimate news sources, each one sourcing the one below it. This story was on Slashdot. All from one guy's probably-false statement on IRC. |