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It isn't worth CPU mining Bitcoin. Furthermore, even when it was botnet owners quickly saturated not just the CPU mining but the GPU mining as well. It wasn't u
by 3pt14159 11y ago
It isn't worth CPU mining Bitcoin. Furthermore, even when it was botnet owners quickly saturated not just the CPU mining but the GPU mining as well. It wasn't until FPGA Bitcoin software and ASICs started coming out that this generally stopped.
One of the dark bits with people calling for a more democratic Proof of Work based cryptocurrency is that it will dramatically increase monetary flows to organized cyber criminals.
- tromp 11y agoReplace "bitcoin mining" with "cryptocurrency mining". Several cryptocurrencies use alternative Proof-of-Work that is more CPU friendly, e.g. by requiring several MB of memory and exploiting Intel CPU's AES-NI support for cryptographic operations.
- monocasa 11y agoIt totally is if someone else is paying for the power.
- duskwuff 11y agoYou may be underestimating how wildly inefficient CPU mining is. Even if an attacker isn't paying for the hardware or the power, there's still a significant opportunity cost. (Especially given that Bitcoin mining is a rather conspicuous way to use an exploited computer; users are likely to notice the increase in fan noise.)