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A Wooden Hut in Malaysia Used for Bitcoin Mining: The Untold Story of Illicit Crypto Operations

Summary by Being Crypto
In a riveting example of how the global cryptocurrency boom is intersecting with unconventional locations, a rustic wooden hut in Malaysia once became the unlikely epicenter of a covert Bitcoin mining operation. Hidden deep within an oil palm plantation in Miri, Sarawak, this humble structure — easily mistaken for an abandoned shed — was repurposed to host dozens of powerful mining machines in an effort to generate Bitcoin, quietly feeding off s…
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Being Crypto broke the news in on Monday, January 12, 2026.
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