July 05, 2019

Bitcoin eats as much energy as Switzerland

That's around seven gigawatts, equal to 0.21% of the world's supply: as much power as generated by seven Dungeness nuclear power plants.

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July 30, 2018

Google bans Android miners from Play Store

Google has cracked down on apps that mine for cryptocurrency, banning them entirely from its official Google Play Store.

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February 22, 2018

Tesla cryptojacked by currency miners

Tesla's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud account was broken into by hackers who suckled at its computer power for cryptocurrency mining

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February 15, 2018

Coinmining frenzy is making it hard for us to find aliens

As cryptocurrency values have soared, so too has the cost of the hardware needed to mine them - if you can even buy the GPUs, given the shortages.

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December 14, 2017

Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers’ laptops to mine cryptocoins

A 10-second delay when customers connected to the "free" Wi-Fi was harnessed for secret cryptocoin mining

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December 07, 2017

NiceHash cryptomining exchange hacked; everything’s gone

Reports say that the Bitcoin was worth $58m at the time. As of Thursday morning, the value had soared to $80m.

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September 20, 2017

Pirate Bay hits users’ CPUs with secret cryptocurrency mining

They should have asked. If they had, would it be better or worse than ads?

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September 08, 2016

Cryptomining malware on NAS servers – is one of them yours?

A new research paper by SophosLabs uncovers how NAS servers are being used to distribute Mal/Miner-C malware.

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