{"id":123128,"date":"2021-05-28T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/massive-bitcoin-mine-discovered-in-uk-after-police-raid-suspected-cannabis-farm"},"modified":"2021-05-28T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:22:30","slug":"massive-bitcoin-mine-discovered-in-uk-after-police-raid-suspected-cannabis-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/massive-bitcoin-mine-discovered-in-uk-after-police-raid-suspected-cannabis-farm","title":{"rendered":"Massive bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-bitcoin-mine-discovered-in-uk-after-police-raid-suspected-cannabis-farm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 An illegal bitcoin mine has been found by police in the U.K. who were looking for a cannabis farm.<\/p>\n<p>The mine \u2014 located in an industrial unit on the outskirts of the English city of Birmingham \u2014 was stealing thousands of pounds worth of electricity from the mains supply, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.west-midlands.police.uk\/news\/bitcoin-mine-uncovered-during-industrial-unit-raid\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Police said<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police searched the unit in Sandwell on May 18 on the back of intelligence that led them to believe it was being used as a cannabis farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 An illegal bitcoin mine has been found by police in the U.K. who were looking for a cannabis farm. The mine \u2014 located in an industrial unit on the outskirts of the English city of Birmingham \u2014 was stealing thousands of pounds worth of electricity from the mains supply, West Midlands Police said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}