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Re:It looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips by Someone on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:29PM (#9540114)
If you do that while the USB charger isn't in use, that in practice already is illegal in the EU (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320...).

You could try and stay under that 0.3W load, or only start using real power whle under load, but I expect the EU will move to forbid that, too, if an Intel-scale company starts doing it.

That will probably kill this idea world-wide, as economies of scale make it cheaper to have only one type of charger (economies of scale similarly exported lead-free soldering from the EU to the world and car safety and economics guidelines from California to the USA to the world)

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