CPU power. You’d configure a machine, install the software, and let it run. It was decentralized in theory, but in practice?

A coordinated operation by Terengganu police and Tenaga Nasional Berhad has dismantled an illicit bitcoin mining syndicate accused of stealing electricity to power its operations in Hulu Terengganu ...

Their mining is painstaking, costly and only sporadically rewarding ... There are hundreds of online shops and retailers that accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. However, there is a catch. Both ...