Chinese law enforcement in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province have arrested 22 suspects reportedly involved in the illegal mining of cryptocurrencies at the expense of as many as nine factories in the city. According to the report, the criminals were detected after the local energy agency reported an abnormal spike in energy consumption in the region, totalling to a surplus of nearly $3 million worth of power. The police have currently seized 4,000 BTC miners from these factories and are now continuing the investigation on the suspects to find out just how much BTC they’ve mined in the process. Even if the
