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I gotta say, I love Monero but every single time I see malware deploy a miner it is Monero for obvious reasons. More than any currency I want it to succeed beca
by _8j50 5y ago
I gotta say, I love Monero but every single time I see malware deploy a miner it is Monero for obvious reasons. More than any currency I want it to succeed because of true anonymity it provides but when you accept Monero, better beef up your anti-abuse capacity.
- Grimburger 5y agoIt feels wrong going in defending them here but basically nothing else on the planet is CPU mine-able anymore, RandomX was made specifically to exclude GPU's and ASIC's. If you had intrusions on GPU servers it would be a very different story.
- _8j50 5y agoI can't tell you why they compromise thousands of docker containers,vms and even run of the mill malware drops xmr miners with winring0.sys on windows to run at ring0
- Kiro 5y ago> for obvious reasons You might think it's because it's private and confidential but it's actually because it's suited for CPU mining.
- _8j50 5y agoEither way it is very difficult to find the owner of an XMR "wallet"
- kylebenzle 5y ago
- stavros 5y agoWhat kind of abuse could I be subjected to if I accept Monero? Seems like the most that could happen is that people can send me money.
- vorpalhex 5y ago1. Accept kickbacks from <terrorist org> 2. Buy your product with kickbacks 3. Resell your product at a discount for clean money Congrats, you now get to meet all the alphabet people in person and spend a lot of one on one time with them. Hope you didn't have any traveling planned cuz you aren't getting on any airplanes.
- opportune 5y agoI don’t think there is much of any risk of accepting it except that you may not be able to comply with KYC.
- _8j50 5y agoI meant as a business