[LINK] 5 Myths About Bitcoin You Need to Understand

[Roger Clarke]

At 14:53 +1100 20/12/17, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>One increasingly popular work-around for energy requirements when mining cyrpto-currency.
>Steal it.
>For one example .. "Android trojan has miner so aggressive it can bork your battery"
>
>By Richard Chirgwin 19 Dec 2017  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/19/android_trojan_has_miner_so_aggressive_it_can_bork_your_battery/
...
>The sample analysed by Kaspersky, when running a few days to mine the Minero cryptocurrency, worked their test device so hard that "the battery bulged and deformed the phone cover."

Among a few aspects of this, it's a pity Kaspersky didn't publish details of the test device, so that people could avoid a supplier whose design is so shoddy that it's capable of such self-destruction.


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