Russian Miner Has His Video Cards Stolen – By Balcony-Scaling Neighbor

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A Russian miner was robbed of his video cards by his next-door neighbor – who police say climbed over the man’s balcony to steal his hardware.

According to the Kursk branch of the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the local media outlet Kurskie Izvestia, the flat belongs to a Kursk resident who had moved out of the property after converting it into a crypto mining “farm.”

But the miner guessed something was wrong when he noticed that the equipment had ceased to generate any income for him – and was no longer mining coins.

He notified the police, who were initially flummoxed by the fact that they were unable to find any traces of a break-in or a burglary in the apartment. Eventually, they formulated the theory that the miner’s neighbors were somehow involved in the theft – and were soon proved correct.

Their investigation led them to discover that a resident in the neighboring apartment had deduced that a miner was living next door – due to the sound of the mechanical “whirring” of graphics processing units and mining rigs.

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