well we knew that was possible with .... really any kind of PoW at this point.

great, now we have ACM against us twitter.com/martinkl/status/1277934863996387331

arguably, current banking system consumes more power than Bitcoin miners

yes... but easy to argue against running both systems at once

actually they're only against using PoW "for supply chain management purposes (e.g., electronic product passports)"

they can use pow for anything, just tie it periodically to BTC POW , you do not need hundreds pows

you can just use it so no one will simply rewrite whole chain without expending energy (PoS utopia) and fool you into some fake data

does this comment about randomx-sniffer make sense? reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/hhwu2i/_/fwi5v83

yes

I mean yes, obviously malware can bypass AV programs

making randomx-sniffer trigger on every process in the system makes it useless, yes

but actively messing with other processes gives away your malware even easier

but could a cloud provider check the CPU registers from outside

and notify the user if mining is detected?

on the other hand, if randomx-sniffer detects rounding mode changes where they're not supposed to happen... this is also a sign

it can't pinpoint the exact process which is mining, but it's enough to raise a general alarm

so that comment makes sense and at the same time it doesn't

"executable don't need to be on the infected machine" - interesting point. xfer'ing a blob from a remote host for every nonce sounds kinda slow tho

binaries can be run from memory without files on disk, they only need to be downloaded once after each reboot