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Harvard supercomputing cluster commandeered to mine Dogecoin

22

Feb

2014

An unidentified Harvard community member managed to break their way into the universitys high-powered Odyssey cluster last week all for the purpose of mining Dogecoin, reports the Harvard Crimson. The offending miner was reportedly using the research network to participate in a mining competition, taking up significant resources from the cluster in the process. However, making […]

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The secret Hong Kong facility that uses boiling goo to mine Bitcoins

02

Dec

2013

Serious miners have started to build dedicated facilities for the sole purpose of Bitcoin mining. Journalist Xiaogang Cao visited one such center, the secret mining facility of ASICMINER, reportedly located in Hong Kongs Kwai Chung industrial building.

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Bitcoin Miner Bundled in Advertising-Based Software

30

Nov

2013

Bitcoin mining software has been detected to be part of third party applications inadvertently installed by users together with legitimate applications.Following a request for assistance from one of their users, Malwarebytes discovered recently that some third party programs, generically called PUPs or PUAs (potentially unwanted programs/applications), integrate bitcoin mining software that is deployed on the […]

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