I just got burned by a group of faucet sites. Nothing like finding out your microsoft account (used for logging into Windows 10) is hiding scriptlets that mine bitcoin in your web browser without your consent!
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Wait.. what did you do about this? How were you informed? I recently was just informed about some suspicious activity on mine and had to change my password...
Well, it turns out I'm retarded. I thought I was running mining applets in Firefox because I saw multiple sub-processes running, with some of them drawing from the GPU. Then I found out that Firefox Quantum splits processing power to each of the CPU cores, and now offloads some processing to the GPU to improve efficiency.
So I probably was mining for some scam operation, but not in the way I thought.
Oh interesting 🤣 well hey, be safe out here. May your trades be epically successful, and your portfolio TO THE MOON! ;D thanks for commenting
Honestly, I could probably mine with my desktop computer. I've got a GTX 970, I just don't know how to get started. I want to mine Litecoin, but the litecoin wiki is down and I don't want to create a reddit account to ask them and get ridiculed to high hell.