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The point in electricity consumption stands across the board for all hardware. CPU mining is just that ineffective compared to ASICs. Basically uTorrent folks
by sharpneli 12y ago
The point in electricity consumption stands across the board for all hardware. CPU mining is just that ineffective compared to ASICs.
Basically uTorrent folks are willing to turn tens of millions of dollars worth of electricity, paid by someone else, into heat just so they can grab a thousand or so of profit.
I have no idea who thought it would be a good idea. How sociopathic a person must be to suggest it originally?
- ptomato 12y agoI mean, the software exists to allow you to reap the benefits of other people's work without paying them. I'm not sure why this is surprising.
- sharpneli 12y agoFirst of all this must be made well known, so that people will avoid uTorrent. Second of all this is bit different from normal theft in the orders of magnitudes involved. If you steal 1000€ from someone the other person loses 1000€. In this case uTorrent guys are stealing 1000€ and receiving only 0.1€, or robbing 0.1€ and causing 1000€ worth of damage. It's like burning down a department store, destroying all the goods in it and the building, just to rob a single cash register.
- andrepd 12y agoIf it stands across the board, all the more reason not fudge up by using an overpriced dated laptop as comparison instead of a recent desktop for instance. It would even illustrate the point better (even your "gaming" grade desktop will be orders of magnitude less efficient than a specialized ASIC).