One of the sites I work with was hit by a virus that installed script for mining bitcon - I bet it's profitable, but pointless, as whole cryptocurrency business
There is something like stealing the CPU from the users that visit your website, and they will mine coins for you. But this is not profitable at all.
Infecting whole user and their computer is a different part again.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're using AWS to mine you can only be CPU mining, so for example monero coin etc.
I can't imagine this is ever going to be profitable. Run a monero mining calculator based on the CPU power from an AWS instance and compare that to the cost of hiring the AWS instance, I expect you will be heavily in the negative.
Enter the AWS hourly cost as electricity cost here and simulate returns https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
what if im using $100 credit and want to mine coins just worth about $50 ?
AWS has entire buildings filled with ASIC miners you can rent.Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're using AWS to mine you can only be CPU mining, so for example monero coin etc.
I can't imagine this is ever going to be profitable. Run a monero mining calculator based on the CPU power from an AWS instance and compare that to the cost of hiring the AWS instance, I expect you will be heavily in the negative.
AWS has entire buildings filled with ASIC miners you can rent.
https://awsmining.com/
Say what?
You still need to use a mining calculator to see how much you can mine within a certain period of time.
If you're using $100 credit and the coin is worth $50 then you'd need to mine 2 whole coins in the time period that your credit lasts.
you did not get what im trying to say. i will try to explain it much clear now.
I have an aws account and it has 100$ credit. Now i want to know what coins should i mine so that i make atleast 40% of my $100 credit which is atleast 40$ of whatever coins USD worth, overall it seems im getting negative return but in reality its not. Now you get it ?