One of China’s largest bitcoin mining regions, Inner Mongolia’s electricity generation comes largely from highly polluting coal-burning power plants. It accounts for about 8% of the total global bitcoin mining. Yet Beijing has been pushing for more renewable energy for years, as pollution levels grow.
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Can cryptominers cure Coronavirus?
The Folding@home project wants to use out-of-service mining machines to help scientists learn the secrets needed to create a vaccine for COVID-19
While the markets tank over COVID-19 fears a small group of programmers are trying to convert their cryptomining GPUs to find a cure for coronavirus via the Folding@home project.
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Salon is now using readers’ browsers to mine cryptocurrencies
A recently published FAQ explains how the progressive site is using its readers to make money
The fewer and fewer people who are visiting progressive-leaning blog site Salon may be mining cryptocurrencies, according to a recently published FAQ on the site. Based on data from Archive.org, the FAQ was first published on Monday, February 12, 2018. [Editor’s note: We’ve just heard back from Salon. We hope to have more updates shortly.] Those visitors to Salon using an ad blocker are now given two choices: disable the blocker or let Salon use some of their computers CPU to mine cryptocurrencies while they catch up on the circus that is American politics. Of course, Salon couches it in terms that make one’s bleeding heart flutter just a little…
