@daidochus: Yea... every steam peripheral has failed. So stand to reason if people is going to spend 400 bucks might as well get the OLED switch since BOTW2, metroid, bayonetta... and so on... you get the picture..
Probably will fail since people will have their Steam ID with wallet info right there so it will be basically cat nip for robbers on top of getting a $400+- handheld, it will have cc info, bank info because it will allow also the usage of OS, twitter, discord and so on IDs will be up for grabs. Not to mention access to steam inventories that could be worth thousands in items that can be posted and sold in the blink of an eye.
@Atzenkiller: You obviously have no idea how organized crime in eastern europe works.
I mean Sony bragged about selling 100 million units... so a couple of thousands in one place is just another sales bump for them, makes you wonder how many PS5 are already being set in farms while Sony high five each other for sales achieved.
They buy stolen cc cards on the dark web by the thousands...
Simply look at key resellers websites to see how many have been bought using that technique. Do the math when looking at available keys.
Problem isnt the protection but the VM emulation, since it emulate a machine inside a machine which will cause throttles on many rigs. Something similar happened on early versions of bluestacks.
@Atzenkiller: Who´s to say that those consoles were bought legally and not by credit card fraud, or simply being stolen. Also all those consoles were mining a single token per shelf.
To mine you just need to have them run 24/7, and all those consoles were used as a single GPU per mining rig.
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