Behold the pyramid scheme known as cryptocurrency mining. Man allegedly consumed $3.5 million of computing resources from Amazon and Microsoft to generate $1 million worth of digital coin.
The real crime here is all the energy consumed.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/nebraska-man-indicted-multi-million-dollar-cryptojacking-scheme
@dangoodin I'm somewhat puzzled as to how exactly he "stole" all these services. I guess if you start a new account they let you use some amount of $ worth of compute on the theory that they'll bill you at the end of the month and you'll probably pay, but...
Just how much do they allow a new account to use without paying for, and just how many accounts did he have to create, to get it to $3.5 million?
I guess that's just not all that much money anymore... 😵💫
