[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Stuart Seeley]

TLDR: They're getting their hundreds of thousands of visitors to mine
monero in their browsers on their behalf.

Stuart


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:30 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There's more detail on TorrentFreak about what TPB was doing.  But if
> you're worried about visiting TPB, your AdBlock add-in should take care of
> you:  https://torrentfreak.com/cryptocurrency-miner-
> targeted-by-anti-virus-and-adblock-tools-170926/
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 at 16:24 Stuart Seeley <stuart at lowlevel.ca> wrote:
>
>> I have.. though I don't currently.  (Mined and day traded between 2009
>> and 2013.)
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:19 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> While I'm very curious about bitcoin and related ecurrencies, I have to
>>> ask... is anyone here making any money off of this?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 at 14:23 bob+kwlug at softscape.ca <
>>> bob+kwlug at softscape.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not affiliated and saddened that simply buying the books does not
>>>> load them into my brain, but if anyone is interested:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.humblebundle.com/books/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-books
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bob.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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