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Can I mine bitcoins from my droplet?

Posted on March 11, 2014

Hi guys, Am I allowed to mine bitcoins with my droplet?



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Ah, sorry, it was 2.17 on the old terms, but it is 12.1 on the new ones… <br> <br>“…violation of any of these Terms of Service or any law, or if you misuse system resources, such as, by employing programs that consume excessive network capacity, CPU cycles, or disk IO.”

No, it is against the TOS Section 2.6 if I recall correctly

It may not be against the TOS but it will be completely useless as the hash power supplied by the vCore is just ridiculous compared to what you can get from a mid-level GPU card. <br> <br>It will use 100% of your VPS resources and it’s more expensive than running it yourself on your home computer.

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