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Comment by garaetjjte

>If these cryptojackers were to mine Bitcoin or Ethereum, their transaction details would be open to the public, making it possible for law enforcement to track them down

That doesn't actually matter at all. Monero is used for these purposes probably just because it's mineable only on CPU, thus viable to mine on ordinary hardware. (Bitcoin requires ASIC and Ethereum high-end GPU)

parent garaetjjte 4 years ago

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