> They propose to put their companies capital assets into the homes of consumers and then extract value from those assets in a manner adversarial to the consumers interests. End users/attackers can do everything from blackhole the network traffic of the device to modify the firmware to target the hashing power to a new mining pool. Virtually any weakness in the engineering has the potential to be exploited at vast scale. This should terrify them.

Mark my words. If this or similar idea ever takes hold and begins to spread, I am going to start an open source project to hack those devices and redirect their hashing power where consumers want in as easy and streamlined way as possible so that everyone could do it.

I'm tired of companies extracting value from customers in adversarial manner, literally telling their users "fuck you" in their faces.