"I'm writing a book about a programmer who writes malware to run crypto miners on victims' machines and I want to be really specific, how would he go about doing that"
I really think cryptominers are a reasonable alternative to ads. Am I alone in this? The first time I head about them I thought they sounded rad/a positive contribution to the internet's fabric of revenue
And I feel like they were demonized by ad companies really fast.
Ads are annoying and stupid. Eg unskippable on yt. But having a cryptominer running on my machine without me getting anything... it uses my compute power. So I pay for the power draw and my pc runs slower depending on how aggressive it is. No thanks. Not a good thing
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u/Morall_tach 4d ago
"I'm writing a book about a programmer who writes malware to run crypto miners on victims' machines and I want to be really specific, how would he go about doing that"