[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Bob Jonkman]

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All in all, I'd rather mine some digital coin for a site that I
support, rather than be subjected to the ads they inject.

- --Bob, who would love to see a presentation on coin-mining using a
Raspberry Pi...



On 2017-10-11 04:39 PM, Stuart Seeley wrote:
> TLDR: They're getting their hundreds of thousands of visitors to
> mine monero in their browsers on their behalf.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:30 PM, CrankyOldBugger
> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There's more detail on TorrentFreak about what TPB was doing.
>> But if you're worried about visiting TPB, your AdBlock add-in
>> should take care of you:
>> https://torrentfreak.com/cryptocurrency-miner- 
>> targeted-by-anti-virus-and-adblock-tools-170926/
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 at 16:24 Stuart Seeley <stuart at lowlevel.ca>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have.. though I don't currently.  (Mined and day traded
>>> between 2009 and 2013.)
>>> 
>>> Stuart
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:19 PM, CrankyOldBugger < 
>>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> While I'm very curious about bitcoin and related ecurrencies,
>>>> I have to ask... is anyone here making any money off of
>>>> this?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 at 14:23 bob+kwlug at softscape.ca < 
>>>> bob+kwlug at softscape.ca> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I am not affiliated and saddened that simply buying the
>>>>> books does not load them into my brain, but if anyone is
>>>>> interested:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.humblebundle.com/books/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-books
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 
Bob.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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