Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)
&quot;Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner&quot; sounds like when 10-15 years back it made the news when one app or one OS installed adware or spyware. We did nothing, and now it is becoming the norm.
If that&#x27;s the trend, then, ladies and gentlemen, we&#x27;re screwed: every piece of software will attempt to monetize from user&#x27;s hardware, no matter the cost, particularly when cost is on the users. Name one reason why they shouldn&#x27;t do that, there&#x27;s no law forbidding it except common sense.<p>Cryptocurrency is cancer. It doesn&#x27;t scale, it can&#x27;t scale, it&#x27;s becoming a huge unsustainable environmental disgrace, and it&#x27;s the #1 reason why certain hardware is harder to find and overpriced, followed by energy, of which we have plenty but decided to waste it in mining farms.<p>Here are some numbers, just look at the trend: from 77 TWh to 204 TWh in one single year.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiconomist.net&#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiconomist.net&#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;bitcoin-mining-electricity-usage-more-than-google-2021-9?r=US&amp;IR=T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;bitcoin-mining-electricity-u...</a><p>Now just picture what will be like 5 years from now with possibly one PWh of miners worldwide pumping heat in the atmosphere 24&#x2F;7, and energy prices skyrocketing because it will always be allocated to this task, therefore demand will always be higher than offer. Seriously, WTF!<p>Of course I expect downvotes from users with vested interest in cryptocurrencies, however I politely ask others to reply with &quot;You&#x27;re wrong because ...&quot; followed by a believable explanation. I <i>want</i> to be proven wrong on this.