Man Using a TV Studio’s Electricity to Mine Ethereum Has the Last Laugh

An unexpected winner appears to have emerged in one of the most bizarre crypto mining stories of the year – one with a twist in the tale!

The story, as reported by media outlet Xataka, begins at the studios of local authority-run television station in Andalucía, Spain, named Canal Málaga.

Canal Málaga engineers had been experiencing blackouts and power shortages since as far back as 2017 – and were having trouble identifying the problem.

They had called in an independent electricity consultant to look at their equipment, but the problems continued to persist. Eventually, they decided to call the police, whose cybercrime unit decided to look at a restricted area devoted to power supply matters.

There they found banks of equipment that the engineers had been told were power stabilizers. The electricity consultant had insisted that this equipment should never be turned off – and should instead be left well alone.

On closer inspection, however,…