Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

[Taylan Kammer]

On 20.02.2022 13:37, Maxime Devos wrote:
> 
> The points about slippery slopes, research and niche use-cases seem
> reasonable to me.  I do see follow-up questions though, should the
> description in Guix warn about potential issues?  And should the
> description focus on research uses? ...
> 
> More concretely, the p2pool description is:
> 
> ‘Monero P2Pool is a peer-to-peer Monero mining pool.  P2Pool
> combines the advantages of pool and solo mining; you still fully
> control your Monero node and what it mines, but *you get frequent
> payouts like on a regular pool.*’
> 
> This is quite a bit different from, say, aircrack-ng which seems
> to be mostly about assessing security, whereas the p2pool description
> is about gaining money (see ‘payouts’), and without mentioning that
> mining costs a lot of energy (and hence money, and possibly the money
> that is gained by mining is smaller than the amount lost due to energy
> costs!).
> 
> My dislike for the description of p2pool might just be my views on
> money leaking through, though.
> 
> Greetings,
> Maxime.

I guess a different description would be better.  It sounds almost
like a sales pitch with the mention of making money. :-)

I'm not familiar with Monero/P2Pool so I don't know what a better
description might sound like though.

-- 
Taylan