Topic: Toasters to Mine Bitcoins - page 2. (Read 4142 times)
My toaster, refrigerator, as long as the links to the things other people could be controlled? For them to seek benefits, but spend my electricity bill?
Op are you really interested in mining cryptocurrencies with Toeaster or Freezer? It seems illogical and really waste of potential even if you could make it work. You will be better with one ASIC than dozens of Toasters.
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It would be have to be alt coins, probably a cpu coin.
Well it wouldn't have to be. It's just likely that it's easier and more profitable to mine such a coin, and then exchange that for other coins (including Bitcoin), than mining Bitcoin; same reason those NAS boxes were mining Dogecoin, rather than Bitcoin or even Litecoin (at the time, Dogecoin was going through a growth spurt).
The list of requirements is pretty short:
Whether that's worth the bother depends on how many machines you manage to actually target. Processing power in these is pretty limited, but if you can get 10,000,000 of them, at very low cost to you, then it may be lucrative all the same.
Remember that some NAS (basically just a 'dumb' hard disk on your network) systems were hacked to perform cryptocoin (in this case, Dogecoin) mining; http://www.pcworld.com/article/2364120/hacked-synology-nas-systems-used-in-highprofit-cryptocurrency-mining-operation.html
- Must be capable of performing the calculations required; even lowly microcontrollers may be sufficient
- Must be capable of being programmed to perform these calculations; if you can't change the firmware/software, you're stuck
- Must be connected to the internet; otherwise you'd have to manually set it up with work, and manually submit solved work
- Must be hackable across the internet via a vulnerability; only in the case of remote hacking, though that's generally the vector to go for.. being able to hack a machine in person is great, but that's a lot of work for very little trade-off.
Whether that's worth the bother depends on how many machines you manage to actually target. Processing power in these is pretty limited, but if you can get 10,000,000 of them, at very low cost to you, then it may be lucrative all the same.
Remember that some NAS (basically just a 'dumb' hard disk on your network) systems were hacked to perform cryptocoin (in this case, Dogecoin) mining; http://www.pcworld.com/article/2364120/hacked-synology-nas-systems-used-in-highprofit-cryptocurrency-mining-operation.html
Is it possible to mine Bitcoin using refrigerators and toasters.
How that even works?
Well they are saying that hackers could target this things to compute with the mining power of computed device.
Is it possible?
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hackers-could-be-targeting-toasters-mine-bitcoins-expert-warns-1475625
How that even works?
Well they are saying that hackers could target this things to compute with the mining power of computed device.
Is it possible?
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hackers-could-be-targeting-toasters-mine-bitcoins-expert-warns-1475625
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