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Two men in Holland may face jail time after authorities claim they pilfered electricity to power their Bitcoin mining operation. The men, brothers from the city of Rotterdam whose names were not released, are said by prosecutors to have hijacked connections from nearby buildings to supply power to a set of number-crunching …

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