Beware of Crypto Mining
Beware of Crypto Mining from your own computer. Why do I say this? It seems to be against so much of what you see on the Internet these days. So many sites advocate mining for Bitcoins or other Crypto currencies from your browser or directly from your computer, using the idle "brain" time of your CPU (processor) or GPU (graphics processing unit, also a processor). Please be careful and look carefully into this before you undertake any idle time mining. I have tried this both from applications running on my computer and from my browser (in my case, Chrome, but these mining apps work on other browsers as well). Here is what I found: ... These applications are beautifully presented and they claim to operate invisibly on your computer, working quietly in the background to earn you Crypto currencies. This was so exciting that I often left my computer running all night while I was asleep. I found that the applications could even be set to operate in a less im...