They will be when you suddenly find out you were mining to someone else’s wallet. All someone would need is your IP address (given out with your hostname on many ISPs). I say when and not if because the more people who know you’re mining under Windows, the more it becomes inevitable you get money stolen.
This is why no large scale mining operation uses Windows. Even most serious hobbyist miners are on Linux.
First two laptop CPUs I noticed (40 Watt?) posted today in other thread:
29 Sol/s: i7-6770HQ
32 sol/s: i7-5775C
Laptops and new desktops will be 1 W per Sol/s. Claymore is probably 2 W per sol/s after his tweaking on the optimal GPU.
The other developer claiming 120 Sol/s was reporting the same 6 H/s speed as my CPUs. According to someone in another thread, this means he does not have what he thinks he has. It won’t work.
CPUs still winning.
People buying GPUs for Zcash are taking a chance. Aren’t ETH changes supposed to cause a glut of GPUs in a couple of months?
Claymore needs to be writing a miner for windows laptops.
as a small miner the chances of someone that evil to buy an exploit or something (a backdoor is something else ofc) for my windows miner AND one of my machines which are accessible public (that being linux and freebsd) to get it installed are pretty low, my machines arent directly connected with the internet (seriously, who does that?).
so please take your bs about IP and hacking elsewhere, this only applies if you have no firewall and use a public ip with your windows miner, even then you can easily setup an IDS.
edit: my public ip is 130.83.137.28, anyone is welcome to try and “hack” into it, sadly in a month no one will have succeeded though
large farms use linux because its free, lightwight and easy to deploy and manage once you got an image and some scripts
SIlentArmy in Ubuntu is WAY faster!
how did claymore screw this one up
silentarmy miner is a good 15-20% faster
and claymore wants a 2.5% fee??? wtf
Stop moaning and try the damn thing
People shut down a good part of the internet a little over a week ago by installing stuff on unsuspecting (average people’s) home routers, NAS and cameras. Never underestimate a botnet. There are even worms which specifically look for miners and wallets:
No one thinks it will happen to them until it does. Then they wise up and ditch Windows for anything other than gaming.
Ignorance of Security is not immunity. It’s quite the opposite.
im sure you dont know how networking works
also im not the average user with insecure public IoT devices
ALSO a ddos is something completely different than hacking into someones pc with exploits
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im sure you dont know how networking works [/quote]
You’d be entirely wrong. I’ve worked in the industry.
How do you think the DDoS was done?
Its been established it was from hacking people’s networked devices: Hacked home devices caused massive Internet outage
i cant believe this, but if you say so
OK, GPU beats my CPUs. People are confirming 45 Sol/s with $199 RX 4xx. Same electrical cost. 1/2 my initial costs.
how many of those you have? I have 2 7970 and 2 7950 but haven´t been able to test them yet (psu broke down). What is the setup you are using?