Chinese Bitcoin miner arrested for stealing electricity from oil well

Authorities in China have arrested a man after he reportedly stole electricity from an oil well to mine Bitcoin. The arrest was made after the police received a phone call from Daqing Oilfield, located in Haerken district (Tsitsihar, China) on May 28th. According to a local media report, the man laid an electricity cable through a fish pond to steal the power from the oil well. In order to verify the claims, the police used a drone to conduct an airborne investigation and eventually discov