Re: 61-year Old Chinese Grandma Convicted For Stealing Electricity To Mine Bitcoin

ohh/ I've read it on taklimakan. For one hand it looks funny how ur grandma is trying to do mining but in another hand it's so sad bc such a lady needs to think where to get some additional profit

Yeah, I completely agree with u. It's such a pity that chinese government can't give a proper payement for its citizens. But her acting encourages me

yeah, I'm also surprised she learned by herself how to mine whereas many of young generation cannot learn the basis. but there are so many platforms like binance

I highly doubt she was the one mining the bitcoin as it takes some technical knowledge to be able to setup these miners and configure them. Do you think she was able to even lift up these miners up or down the stairs when they weight as much as a 12 kilos? Old granny would probably have a heart attack doing such work. She had to have one of her grandkids who was doing this living with her and she was the one caught because the residence where they found the equipment was in her name. And being granny she didnt want her grandkid going to jail so she took the blame.
What grandparents would do so to not have their grandkids lives ruined with breaking the law. Embarrassed

Quote from: bittick on May 26, 2019, 09:56:29 AM

Quote from: Evgenklm on May 26, 2019, 07:31:45 AM

Of course, an elderly person is a pity, I think there are pitfalls in this story, maybe a grandson or a son did this and the grandmother took the blame. And it is not clear how she stole electricity from the state, the article does not describe.

that actually does make sense, I mean it could be that grandma took the blame for someone else just as you said since it's just by nature for the parents to protect their child if we are talking maybe it's that grandma's relative or simply her family.
However as the family has reimbursed the funds I guess it will be fine, but im pretty sure the police will still be looking after that grandma lol.

Yes. I was thinking the same thing when I first heard about this story a couple of days ago.