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Illegal activities within the four walls of the Polish police: A civilian employee of the IT department equipped desktop PCs in the Warsaw police headquarters with graphics cards and had cryptocurrencies mined for free in order to make a profit from the sale of coins. According to reports, the employee has since been fired; other service providers are said to have been targeted by the investigators. The public prosecutor is investigating the incident.
About the incident reports the Polish news channel TVN24. The source does not name specific cryptocurrencies, but Ethereum mining appears likely. ETH is currently the most lucrative crypto currency for mining with graphics cards – the price recently rose after a slump to around 1500 euros to around 2200 euros.
Mining blown
According to TVN24, the colleagues in the presidium noticed the mining itself. Depending on the hardware used, the PCs become noisy on the one hand and noticeably warm up the premises on the other. In addition to the acquisition costs, mining cryptocurrencies is expensive due to the cost of electricity. Mining farms, for example, are mainly found in Asia, where electricity is particularly cheap.
Meanwhile, the performance in the Ethereum network is continuously increasing towards the old high of mid-May 2021: At that time, 644 terahashes per second (TH / s) were there, but the value fell to less than 480 due to the mining ban in China, among other places TH / s. Meanwhile is Ethereum hit more than 560 TH / s again. Later this year, the Ethereum Foundation plans to abolish mining with the 2.0 update.
(mmma)
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