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Re:Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton... by random314 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:22PM (#29799860)
And who pays the customers electricity bill? They are simply stealing your electricity.
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Re:Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton... by yosito on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:35PM (#29800054)
Not just your electricity, but also your processor time, which you likely intended to use for something else.
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Re:Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton... by TingPing on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:47PM (#29804874)
The ethereum would pay for it, if the user knew how to actually cash out.
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Re:Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton... by random314 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:51AM (#29807094)
Depending on your power billing rates, mining ethereum might not be profitable at all for the user.
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