News: New virus installs cryptocurrency miner on IoT devices.
Me: I hope it was worth the whole 37 cents they made.

Well... 37 cents * many devices = a lot.

@Olverine the joke was that cryptocurrency mining requires a lot of GPU power which IoT devices don't have so it would take hundreds of thousands of IoT devices to generate as much money as a single machine with a decent graphics card.

Basically when I said 37 cents I meant for the entire fleet not per device.

@DuckyMcDuckFace Well that depends on the currency. I can imagine that mining monero on thousands of IoT devices could be quite profitable.

@DuckyMcDuckFace monero works great on CPU. It's the currency of choice for CPU mining. My ryzen gets 550H/s almost the same as my R9 380!

@Olverine @Wozza365 well the bot net I was referring to was mining Bitcoin not monero.

@DuckyMcDuckFace hmm, any info to back that up? Mining bitcoin is completely pointless these days and hasn't been for years. They would be lucky to get a cent per device. Most will be doing it so slowly that every time it finds a solution it is too late and the solution has already been found meaning they do not get a share.

@DuckyMcDuckFace perhaps it was bytecoin? They're worthless but can be mined really quickly. Even on a small device

If they managed to get something at all

@Wozza365 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...

@DuckyMcDuckFace that's just a dumb article, it even mentions at the bottom that they've moved on to other cryptocurrencies.
Only a retard would actually mine Bitcoin directly on anything but an asic