Thread moved to off topic room. I'll look this one up to find information, but five will get you ten that this, like all the other fly-by-night mine-from-your-home operatives, is illegitimate.

are spam bots getting unristricted now or something

@meatbag: Dude, you might be onto something here.
bachana.rostomashvili registered in 2017. Obviously he flew under the radar as this was way before the restricted membership kicked in. Could very well be a bot. After all, his only other post is a quote of someone else with nothing to follow, pretty common rudimentary spam tactic. It does add uip, though we'll obviously need to discuss internally before going straight for a ban.
I have however went ahead and put him on ice for a while, i.e. restricted him, which relegates his posting to the restricted topic. If he floods it, then we'll have all we need to know. If he is silent, this may still be an open and shut case.

Etherium, a cryptocurrency.

Here's my thing. If you guys are living under someone else's roof and the electricity bill isn't in your name, you're basically stealing money from the people you're living with. You're asking your computer to do more work, which is making it draw more power. Sure, you could say the same about gaming, but even that's not a constant load and it's not maxing out the CPU or running every core at a very high load.

@Ethin: Speaking of Bitcoin hardware:
Looks like the developer of Icy abandoned us. No fully accessible and open source airgapped wallet, it seems. He abandoned us as in, completely left Github and took his rpoject with him.
And the major wallet brands aren't moving on any sort of speech or braille implementation. Which leaves us with cloud wallets as the only option.
As for mining, GCW is absolutely correct. If the electric bill is out of your hands you especially should not be mining. That's the kind of increase that couldn't possibly be missed, especially now that we're used to seeing increased power bills what with everyone being more online than ever, so a surge in power bill due to some kid trying to get rich quick only to fail miserably would definitely raise eyebrows.

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Nonetheless the real barrier here is volatility and taxes, even if the paperwork is solved.

But, if you get your BAT through Brave, I'm pretty sure the paperwork isn't solved.  The way that things like capitol gains work is as (final price - initial price) but you have to know the initial price, and for crypto it's a bunch of weird rules based off when you got it, and also depends on which way you decide to tax it.  Unless that got changed or simplified, but if it changed equal chance that it got more complex instead.  I was going to try to get into basic crypto swing/day trading with scripts and part of me still wants to, but the tax/paperwork situation there is formidable to say the least and basically ends at "and then I wrote a metrics/tracking system to give to my accountant" before we even talk about the risks inherent in it.