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With the right malware, your CPU rents itself as part of a Botnet. I remember doing the Seti at Home and Folding at Home projects as a screen saver that used C

With the right malware, your CPU rents itself as part of a Botnet. I remember doing the Seti at Home and Folding at Home projects as a screen saver that used CPU time to solve problems. That was for charity. How is this different than mining for Bitcoin or any other virtual currency? I want to make sure my CPU is not used for illegal means and then the FBI busted down my door because my CPU was part of a peer to peer network serving kiddie porn?

ddtaylor 6y ago
> How is this different than mining for Bitcoin or any other virtual currency? Bitcoin mining is finding y < sha256(sha256(x)) - that's it. When you mine coin you don't give anyone the ability to execute Turing complete code. Even their transaction "scripting" language isn't Turing complete. > I want to make sure my CPU is not used for illegal means and then the FBI busted down my door because my CPU was part of a peer to peer network serving [illegal material]? You run the same risks every time you click a link in a web browser currently. It can execute WASM code and it has network access.