It'd still suck balls, just an FYI. It's lower spec than the lowest end Atom, and I *think* lower spec than the Edison module.
You'd think I'd actually know the specs for the damn thing with how much code I wrote for it... but I don't. I only remember it never felt like it had enough always live RAM and it was just fast enough to get done what needed to be done.
No, if you want to make money off a compromised ME mining BTC or any other crypto currency is *not* it. Vastly more valuable in a botnet as a distributed C&C node for other devices, or as a mail relay, or proxy/VPN endpoint.
Repurposed... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Quite right, however if it's not your own machine you're using to mine BTC, then you have neither the cost of hardware nor power to contend with.
And since we're talking about a separate computing system on the mainboard, 99.9% of the users probably wouldn't notice anything strange.
Imagine a botnet of a few dozen thousands of these mining for you.
Re:Repurposed... (Score:2)
It'd still suck balls, just an FYI.
It's lower spec than the lowest end Atom, and I *think* lower spec than the Edison module.
You'd think I'd actually know the specs for the damn thing with how much code I wrote for it... but I don't. I only remember it never felt like it had enough always live RAM and it was just fast enough to get done what needed to be done.
No, if you want to make money off a compromised ME mining BTC or any other crypto currency is *not* it. Vastly more valuable in a botnet as a distributed C&C node for other devices, or as a mail relay, or proxy/VPN endpoint.