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Re:Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses Coi... by freeflight on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:43AM (#15898175)
Another comment pointed out they are not literally mining Bitcoin but rather Monero [0], which seems to be profitable to mine on CPUs and SoC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)

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