A few interesting articles that should be sending a wakeup call to authorities and users alike.

Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity a year than Ireland

Billions of video site visitors unwittingly mine cryptocurrency as they watch

Bitcoin: $64m in cryptocurrency stolen in 'sophisticated' hack, exchange says

Ads don't work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills

And add to this intentional "cryptojacking" the many sites that have been hacked so that visitors and site owners are inadvertently running mining scripts. The symptoms are apparently slowed computer response and increased CPU usage.

Peter

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