And plugging into your neighbor's outdoor receptacle each night...
Wait a minute, do you actually make money from setting up your PC to mine cryptocurrency?
I mean, all this cryptocurrency crap is a massive scam, but if part of the scam involves just running your PC to run mathematical equations without actually spending any of my own money other than on the equipment and power, I’d love to try that!
Love it! Ha!
Dont believe it
Clickbait.
“The difficulty is so high...I could make more money working at McDonald’s,” he said.
Crypto Ping!
How do you mine bitcoin?
The end of the article says it all to me “make more money working at McDonalds” - in other words, his ingenious scheme to make the car mine crypto may work, but it’s like using a hack saw to cut down an oak tree... possible given enough time, but a worthless unprofitable endeavor.
Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. If the main incentive in doing so is to save on electricity costs, how does using a battery that’s charged with your house current achieve that?
Maybe Tesla still offers free charging at their stations? If so it won’t be much longer.
Yeah I’m sorry but a “currency” you can create by running computers doesn’t make a lot of sense.
If they would just introduce a set number and that’s it, the value would be more clear.
“meaning that he was grandfathered into a scheme where he has free and unlimited supercharging for the life of his vehicle. “
So he made money because he was getting free electricty. This is a non story. What’s next, a CNBC story how some guy is making money selling burgers because he gets free beef?
It does speak well for the power of the Tesla’s processors. That said, I’d be afraid to hack into the car’s computer system for fear of bricking it.
I don’t get it. Does that $800 per month add to the GDP? If it does I would like to know how that works.
Sweet...
Back in the day when I was writing freeeware, stuff like disk copy utils and such it occurred to me I could stick in some mining code....but it’s still stealing even if you only grab a penny or two from each victim, so no....
That last line kinda summed it up, eh?
That will probably get patched out real soon.
My Son in Law makes $11 a day mining, and the cost is $20 a month. Maybe move to a hydroelectric state, get cheaper power per wattage. It can be done, you are not going to get rich, but you will stack money up with little effort in hopes that it will be a help during retirement.