A study by Cisco that free electricity available on student campuses allowed these locations to become the second largest “ farm”.
Analysts investigated the scope of in various industries using Cisco Umbrella, which analyzes client network connections and tracks malware, including .
It is reported that the campuses ranked second among the miners of with a result of 22%. In the first place was the energy and utility sector, which accounted for 34%.
“You leave [the rig] running in your dorm room for four years, you walk out of college with a big chunk of change.” said Austin McBride, a Cisco researcher.
Thanks to free electricity, students avoid the associated costs of , which makes it much more profitable.
“ difficulty for a lot of coins is very high right now — which means it costs more for electricity and internet than the profit you can produce from those coins. If you don’t have to pay for those costs, then you are in a really good spot for making money on the university’s dime.” added McBride.
Note that earlier, researchers at the Oak Ridge Institute of Ohio State said that consumes three times more energy than is necessary to extract an equivalent amount of gold in a dollar ratio.
Author: Marko Vidrih
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Published at Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:07:36 +0000
