AWS are dishing out $100k credits atm to anyone with a "blockchain" startup.

I'm assuming Azure and GCP similar levels of credits available.

Definitely some cloud mining

They ran out of credits yesterday

$100K worth of credits? so how much did they earn with that?

.967 XMR?

oh I see the payments page. looks like a decent income

703 total paid. $45k or so

so with free credits, great. if paying yourself, no good

So AWS is only ~45% "profitable"? I would have expected something worse actually

it's way worse than 45%

they probably hacked someone else's AWS/Azure accounts

lol @ Ravencoin

I want to congratulate RVN team with the fork and feeling pretty happy that you guys went with memory hard algo! Also want to share this: todek.io/detail?id=41 This is X17R, one algo bigger than X16R.

I want to congratulate RVN team with the fork and feeling pretty happy that you guys went with memory hard algo! Also want to share this: todek.io/detail?id=41 This is X17R, one algo bigger than X16R.

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this says mining can’t be done with credits

"can't" is not "impossible"

perhaps. but they likely aren't detecting it

or not immediately

I'm pretty sure it's just hacked cloud accounts

someone hacks them en masse and sucks them dry

even something like github actions CI detects it relatively quickly, I would be surprised if large cloud providers can’t detect mining

the guy is comming back every time like now

its looks like attempt to game difficulty adjustment

or which is more likely really dumb cloud provider

It's not overly hard to obtain the credits and yes I assume against TOS. I guess it takes them a few days to detect / disable.

at this point providers ought to be rolling detectors into their base OS images

RandomX is not hard to detect on the hypervisor level

its not that super hard to hide also if you know what you doing

however one can not hide from damn randomx sniffer efficiently

it's not possible to hide RandomX from the hypervisor

when running inside a VM

Embed a VM escape in the mining program, neuter the hypervisor's checking code, mine ^_^

Though who'd burn a VM escape for mining I dunno.

mining on the hypervisor directly is the future :D

I guess it takes about 5 minutes to google a ton of VM escapes

That easy ? Blimey.