Re: Cudo miner, an accessible bitcoin miner!
Grab a bitcoin mining calculator. Figure out your hardware. Plug in the numbers. If this is somehow claiming that it can get you more than at most $5 a month it's almost certainly lying. The only really profitable bitcoin enterprises get datacenters somewhere where electricity is super cheap, running the mining algorithms on literal custom hardware circuits that have the bitcoin mining algorithms in silicon. It stopped being possible to profitably mine bitcoin with commodity hardware years ago now. At this point you either break even or lose money because it makes about as much as it costs on your electric bill to run the machine doing it.
And if you do any research on this you can find all of that out in about 5 minutes, so yes, when someone drops a referral link to a bitcoin mining pool, I will call it out.
Especially since reading their referral page, this is a standard multi-level marketing referral scheme, all be it this side of legality. The pools make money off the miners, not by mining themselves. SO the game here is that they sit at the top, you pay for the electricity and maybe break even if you're lucky, they pull some percent of your mined coins for free to themselves which costs them nothing, and they continue profiting off the people who can't do the basic analysis to realize that hey actually all I've done is turned my workstation into a space heater.
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