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Icelandic Bitcoin mining equipment thief, Sindri Þór Stefánsson, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Jan. 17th. He was re-apprehended in the Netherlands after he fled custody and boarded a flight to Stockholm from Reykjavik in April 2018. Stefánsson made headlines in February last year when he stole Bitcoin mining equipment […]

In February 2018, poet and former Icelandic presidential candidate, Andri Snær Magnason, took to Twitter to decry the immense energy consumption of Bitcoin miners. At the time, Vice reported the country was in danger of an energy shortage because of the expansive work of crypto miners. Magnason’s comments echoed the sentiments of others in Iceland, describing […]