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Could those guts of the internet be set up to mine bitcoins or shave mbtc off of transactions?
by conorclearshot 13y ago
Could those guts of the internet be set up to mine bitcoins or shave mbtc off of transactions?
- pjbrunet 13y agoIf you set up 10 Digital Ocean accounts ($50 / month) and mined some scrypt-based coin (optimized for CPU mining) and pointed all ten at a pool, that's only ~30khash/s. Your desktop PC probably has more than 30khash/s mining potential. D.O. is one of the few hosts that doesn't block mining and we'll see if that lasts. So 30khash/s is maybe 20 cents worth of altcoins/day minus fees to convert that into dollars. So you're already losing $44/month, hurting everyone on your hypervisor and difficulty is rising. And I think Litecoin was an attempt to make CPU mining more lucrative ;-)