Yet another fire has been attributed to virtual
currency mining efforts, this time in the Siberian city of Tomsk.
The FDLE investigation found that McDermott was was part of a mining pool and using state resources for his virtual
currency mining efforts.
Not exact matches
As the price of the
currencies rose last year, the groups had incentives to devote ever greater computing resources to their
mining efforts.
This
effort led to nonexistent seminars, fake cloud
mining services and fabricated lottery schemes that included bitcoin and other digital
currencies.
In an
effort to protect users from having their computer's power illicitly depleted in order to perform cryptocurrency
mining tasks, Google has begun prohibiting Chrome extensions that mine for virtual
currencies.