Uncurious3512@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoSeagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farmswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1138arrow-down1external-linkSeagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farmswww.tomshardware.comUncurious3512@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareHotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·13 hours agoProof-of-storage based cryptocurrency. The article says when it became non-profitable, the drives were reset so their smart stats would appear new, and sold them as such. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Network
minus-squareOpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoSeems like that should be illegal, like changing the odometer on a car, but what do I know.
Proof-of-storage based cryptocurrency. The article says when it became non-profitable, the drives were reset so their smart stats would appear new, and sold them as such.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Network
Seems like that should be illegal, like changing the odometer on a car, but what do I know.