oplkill@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoThen they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cardslemmy.worldimagemessage-square91linkfedilinkarrow-up1623
arrow-up1623imageThen they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cardslemmy.worldoplkill@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square91linkfedilink
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days agoThey wouldn’t? Monero is more profitable for botnets than bitcoin because it (deliberately) doesn’t require specialized hardware. Who was talking about ransomware? Maybe I’m missing some context here.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·26 days agoThere is a whole universe of coins beyond BTC and Monero, and many of them are more profitable to mine with non ASIC hardware than Monero.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days agoLike which ones? Monero is the biggest one I’m aware of that has mining but no ASICs.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-226 days agohttps://minerstat.com/mining-calculator Right now, there’s about 75 coins/pools/mining methods that are more profitable from a pure mining perspective than XMR… with just an Nvidia 3080.
They wouldn’t? Monero is more profitable for botnets than bitcoin because it (deliberately) doesn’t require specialized hardware.
Who was talking about ransomware? Maybe I’m missing some context here.
There is a whole universe of coins beyond BTC and Monero, and many of them are more profitable to mine with non ASIC hardware than Monero.
Like which ones? Monero is the biggest one I’m aware of that has mining but no ASICs.
https://minerstat.com/mining-calculator
Right now, there’s about 75 coins/pools/mining methods that are more profitable from a pure mining perspective than XMR… with just an Nvidia 3080.