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DigitalOcean invaded by cryptocoin miners
Apparently no good deed in this world goes unpunished. 
Offer $10 coupons, attract hordes of assholes trying to convert that into FREE CASH, overloading the service for everyone else, and what's most unfortunate, maybe causing DO to now put in place stricter CPU limits, perhaps also affecting users who did not actually abuse.
Also I doubt it's even that efficient, i.e. doesn't seem like they would mine if there wasn't this coupon, so I guess the Primecoin output of mining for 2 months 24x7 CPU is not much more or even less than $10.
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This is what I don't like about *coin.
People actually do that? I thought the miners had more clever ways of mining. Using VPS seems a bit daft... especially as I'm guessing a very large majority would not permit it.
More technical / detailed information can be found here,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252944.0
Okay, prime numbers.. maybe someone is doing something nasty, just sayin'
Or, maybe they're mining PrimeCoin...
941432434315126593210548723904868285129134748760 276719592346023858295830472501652325259296925727655364363462727 184012012643147546329450127847264841075622347896267285928582953 47502772262646456217613984829519475412398501
If you read the article you would know.
apparently they're fine with mining as their TOS does not disallow it
Zagi =Ben the CEO
Over 18000
Time for a new meme