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I wonder if you use the DVRs for bitcoin mining how much you could produce per day.
by gravypod 10y ago
I wonder if you use the DVRs for bitcoin mining how much you could produce per day.
- deftnerd 10y agoMost IoT devices wouldn't produce any significant revenues from Bitcoin Mining because they don't have anywhere near the computational power of dedicated Bitcoin mining devices. A DVR might have a chance to make an impact if it had a GPU that was used to encode video that could be co-opted to mine Bitcoin, but I think most DVR's use special video encoding chips rather than a general purpose GPU. I think the only hardware they would have that could mine Bitcoin would be their general purpose CPU, which is probably under-powered anyway. A DVR would be more easily monitized as a node in a Botnet that does DDoS attacks, email spamming, or network scanning. One resource they do have though is drive space. a DVR botnet could sell unused DVR HD space using a service like Maidsafe [1] [1] https://maidsafe.net https://maidsafe.net