Wasn't sure where to post this. The links below describe how the imbedding of software into a Chrome extension, into games and even hijacking corporate Cloud environments all in the name of getting others to unwittingly mine Bitcoins for othes. Who knows how much more energy/pollution this has caused:
Wasn't sure where to post this. The links below describe how the imbedding of software into a Chrome extension, into games and even hijacking corporate Cloud environments all in the name of getting others to unwittingly mine Bitcoins for othes. Who knows how much more energy/pollution this has caused:
Anyone can create their own cryptocurrency, bitcoin is open source and you can just copy its code.
'Bitcoin' however is limited to 21m. To change that it needs consensus within the bitcoin system.
No-one is stopping one from making their own system, and one has all the existing open source code to help start-up.
Wasn't sure where to post this. The links below describe how the imbedding of software into a Chrome extension, into games and even hijacking corporate Cloud environments all in the name of getting others to unwittingly mine Bitcoins for othes. Who knows how much more energy/pollution this has caused: