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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by GigabyteCoin on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:45PM (#6912954)
Most scrypt mining software uses the CPU by default. It might have been too difficult for the thief to figure out how to get GPU mining setup.
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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by aestra on Monday December 16, 2013 @08:23AM (#6914523)
No it doesn't. cgminer is the "default" that almost everyone uses and the current version doesn't even have CPU mining. The current version doesn't have script either, you gotta download a previous version but that's a different story. You gotta throw in a --script when starting it, otherwise it mines with SHA-256.

If you wanna CPU mine, you gotta download a specific CPU miner.

Source: I mine Litecoins.

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