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I doubt it's a bitcoin miner. Probably some altcoin. Bitcoin mining is not profitable on CPU anymore, no matter how many general purpose CPUs you have at your d
by comboy 12y ago
I doubt it's a bitcoin miner. Probably some altcoin. Bitcoin mining is not profitable on CPU anymore, no matter how many general purpose CPUs you have at your disposal (fair approximation).
- leni536 12y agoIt's profitable if you use other people's computers and don't pay for the wasted electricity. It's straight stealing though.
- shawabawa3 12y agoDepends on what you mean by profitable For a modern top of the range CPU you can expect maybe ~5MH/s (likely even less) If 1 million people install utorrent and have their processors mining constantly, you can expect a daily profit of about $14
- jonknee 12y agoAs far as I know uTorrent has hundreds of millions of users, it's not going to be amazingly profitable, but still significant revenue. (I don't see any recent figures, but they were at 150m monthly users over three years ago.)
- mikeash 12y agoIt could be a Bitcoin miner put in by people who don't understand how worthless that would be.
- blueskin_ 12y agoSee: How people have found miners running on compromised NAS boxes and even DVRs.
- alvarosm 12y agoyeah, Litecoin actually