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Re:Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs lea... by buffalobuffalo on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:47PM (#44171984)
Yeah i was wondering about that too. Even small cap PoW chains have dedicated mining hardware that is orders of magnitude faster than a GPU. I guess in theory it could work if you cobbled together enough hacked AWS accounts, but the scale required to make any sort of real profit would be gigantic. It just doesn't seem worthwhile.
Re:Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs lea... by latchkey on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:54PM (#44172061)
Exactly. The problem is volume on exchanges to unload what you've mined. Some of these tokens only have a few thousand a day and any selling risks dumping the entire market. If you can steal the compute, sure, that is one thing, but it is very risky for not a huge payout.