This Week on Crypto Twitter: 11,000 Venezuelan Soldiers Bring Down Jailhouse Bitcoin Mining Operation
An earlier raid of a suspected drug running operation in Santiago also turned up Bitcoin hardware, but the Venezuela operation was magnitudes larger.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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