A company accused of turning its customers in to an unaware Bitcoin mining army has settled with New Jersey's attorney and will pay a settlement of $1 million.
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Online video game company E-Sports Entertainment has been accused of infecting thousands of computers belonging to customers in order to illegally mine Bitcoins.
E-Sports was established in 2006 and charges subscribers $6.95 per month for its game subscription service. Malware was injected within user computers through software necessary to play games through the subscription service. Once downloaded and installed, the digital currency was mined without user consent.
Court documents state that malicious code was installed within the software by two employees, co-founder Eric Thunberg and engineer Sean Hunczak. In a press release, U.S. lawmakers said that thousands of computers were infected when users signed up for its anti-cheat online games service.
lol like I dont get why you wouldnt just go all in on a GPU farm somewhere cold instead of risking your already comfortably paying job just to steal some processing power out of a bunch of teenagers.
either way someone is gonna start accepting alt coins for a drug marketplace, its already happened but on such a limited scale it didnt really affect anything. I just wish I knew which coin its going to be for. Developers really are the key cog in this whole shit. Without sites to take these coins, none of this happens. nobody invests money in a coin with no where to spend it, unless they have inside information about future developments.
but trying to find out (accurate) information on this stuff is like pulling teeth I swear.
everyone's got an opinion on something. nobody knows where all the money really is at. a lot of the people have a superiority complex for absolutely no reason. Adds up to be a huge annoyance
btc-e took a huge stash of Novocoins (NVC) in order to put it on their site a while ago, sounds like some backdoor business to me
and its funny because its the same type of deals that go down with real businesses on the real stock markets, and that was the whole "point" of btc to begin with, to circumvent that type of behavior
wtf man I want a job a chase bank I could wear a suit while I sit on my ass and talk about this stuff
To be fair BTC-E provably destroyed those coins eventually after much backlash by sending them to a non existant address IIRC. Or was that the developer who pre-mined and also made MinCoin and MCXnow, can't remember exactly.
). If the price tripled tonight I'd still be more than happy with wot I got. No point thinking about what couldashouldawoulda happened. Far too close to actual capitalism for me is that :Dthats cool you arent going to be homeless shambles.
I deposited today and I saw the conversion chat go from £730 to £650 in a matter of minutes, was quite strange.
