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>- Bitcoin mining that regular user can't detect

It makes very little sense to mine on anything other than ASICs.




Is that still true if someone else foots the power bill?


Put it this way: once you factored in the price of the bus fare to get to the public library to borrow a terminal to check your giant botnet's bitcoin earnings, your criminal enterprise would be operating at a loss.

CPU mining hasn't been viable since 2011 when bitcoin difficulty was below 1,000,000, and today it's near 600,000,000,000.


Ethereum is mined on GPUs (that's why Radeons are out of stock everywhere all the time :D)




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