Some crypto miners use it instead of dedicated Asics, its intense cpu processing but at the expense of everything else running through the cpu, its a cludge but

Some crypto miners use it instead of dedicated Asics, its intense cpu processing but at the expense of everything else running through the cpu, its a cludge but Intel have said they are looking at dedicated crypto mining cpu's to maybe get in on the inflated GPU price tags people currently see. I read somewhere Nvidia have even added some features which prevents their GPU's from being used for mining. AVX-512 is possibly a go-to place for stealth crypto mining for some hackers in server farms.