Regarding crypto mining these were plugins associated with wordpress sites that
were turning them into cryptominors and i think as a result these miners were
downloading onto peoples pc's and run wiht out them knowing if my memory serves
me right.
Phone apps not to sure to be fair.
Regards,
Jonathan
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From: Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org> on behalf of Lux, Jim (US 337K) via
Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 6:50 PM
To: beowulf@beowulf.org <beowulf@beowulf.org>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing?
Wasn't there a minor scandal a year or so ago about websites mining bitcoin in
the background using user resources? And some phone apps doing the same?
On 11/26/19, 9:30 PM, "Beowulf on behalf of Greg Lindahl"
<beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of lind...@pbm.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 08:07:32PM +0000, Chuck Petras wrote:
> Are there any classes of problems that would be monitizeable in a grid
computing environment to make those efforts financially viable?
Sure, currently there are 2 major areas:
1) Creating web proxies for web scraping from residential addresses
2) Mining cryptocurrencies
#2 pays less than the electricity consumed, but there are lots of
circumstances
where people don't pay for their own electricity.
#1 doesn't use much cpu, but it's about as sleezy as #2.
Presumably you had something more noble in mind? And something other
than the well known SETI-at-home, etc.
-- greg
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