https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv739/police-destroy-1069-bitcoin-miners-with-big-ass-steamroller-in-malaysia
on the one hand, crypto dickheads owned
on the other, jesus christ that's extremely wasteful
I mean if they are ASICS is not that wasteful compared to the energy spent mining bitcoin, but if they're GPUs then yeah
Bitcoin mining is exclusively done with ASICs now and has been since 2014 or so. It's mostly ETH that's at fault for the GPU shortage.
What would they do with them? This hardware basically can't do anything but mine. If they sold it at auction, it would be used for more illegal crypto mining. These are chips that should never have been manufactured, the only thing to do with them is recycling.
surely they have coolers and the like that could have been yanked out
Yeah and power supplies... Recycle the Asics or whatever if at all possible.. Just seems excessively spiteful and wasteful. Ah well :shrug-outta-hecks:
The scrap would probably just be melted down back to its component metals
Right. Fuck the miners, but those could maybe be repurposed (although there are specific boards built to mine bitcoins so maybe not) or recycled at least.
Those are all asics, they literally can't do anything but mine
