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Massive cryptomining rig discovered under Polish court’s floor, stealing power (arstechnica.com)
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[–] columbus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People aren't willing to volunteer because of the hardware requirements for running a full Ethereum node and 32 ETH for staking. There are centralized staking pools which everyone uses, where people trusting those pools with there money.

And if a Bitcoin mining pool starts doing something suspicious, the miners can quickly switch to another pool. The miners have a choice in this case.