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Perhaps I'm underestimating it here, or they are mining a currency I'm not aware of, but how does this actually end up being worth the effort involved for the p
by VoidWhisperer 4y ago
Perhaps I'm underestimating it here, or they are mining a currency I'm not aware of, but how does this actually end up being worth the effort involved for the people running cryptominers in the build actions? My understanding is that they'd be making cents or fractions of cents from this..
- arlcode 4y agoThey don't need to be profitable since someone else is paying for power, maintenance and hardware. That makes it pure profit (for the scammers)
- simcop2387 4y agoAlong with that, the cost to "develop" the miner is pretty much a fixed one time cost and they just have to hit a few deploy buttons to do it. The software to do the mining, and send the tokens off to where they need to be already exists and can be sent to tons of different places to do the mining (CI infra, hacked AWS accounts/EC2 servers, etc.). There's very little overhead for them to actually get the things running.