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Business Insider: Take a look inside this underground crypto mining farm in Ukraine

Published July 12, 2021. Updated July 12 at 7:12 am

An employee of Ukrainian mining service provider MiningNetUa stands in front of computers set to mine Bitcoins, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies in January 2018. The computers are assembled in blocks dubbed "farms" and are put on shelves in a Kyiv data center that belongs to the company.

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A huge underground cryptocurrency mining operation has been busted by Ukraine police for allegedly stealing electricity from the grid. Police said they’d seized 5,000 computers and 3,800 games consoles that were being used in the illegal mine, the largest discovered in the country.