ASUS:If we can't beat miner, than we become miner ourself......with your graphics card

[cowboyAs]

English is not my mother tongue so sorry for grammar or wording mistake. 

 

This story is happen in Taiwan.

 

QuantumCloud is a sharing computing power platform lunched by ASUS.

URL:https://www.quantumcloudai.com/en/index.html

 

And ASUS hold a event, said if you borrow your graphics computing power card to us, we will use it at some good way like medical research, AI education and learning.

As the reward, we will give you something like MyCard point or discount for food delivery service.

https://www.quantumcloudai.com/tw/about.html

 

But a guy found out the the parameter of program include "sparkpool", a ETH mining pool in China.

So he doubt that this "program" is just using customers' computing power to mining. And according to the mining pool number in the parameter, there are over 1700 computer are working and expected benefit is 2.5ETH/day, means the owner of the mining pool can get 4 thousand dollars everyday without any cost.

Here is the URL of the mining pool:

https://www.sparkpool.com/miner/0xBb98F2A83d78310342dA3e63278cE7515D52619d/worker

 

And after this whole thing is posted on the greatest forum in Taiwan, ASUS did a little change on the website.

 

Before:

Cloud computing application platforms are prevalent. We use the computing power shared by users to implement medical research, AI education and learning, image recognition machine learning step by step.

 

After:

Cloud computing application platforms are prevalent. We use the computing power shared by users to implement medical research, AI education and learning, image recognition machine learning, or blockchain applications step by step.

 

Here is the source：

https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/PC_Shopping/M.1617252777.A.D3B.html

https://forum.gamer.com.tw/Co.php?bsn=60030&sn=2309555

Both are Chinese website, I hope someone who is good at both English and Chinese can explanation this whole thing better than me to people.

 

I'm sorry for this long long article, I'm just a college students who lives in Taiwan and love Linus Tech Tips like everybody here. I think the high price of the graphic card is not ASUS's fault, it's just normal law of supply and demand. But if you fake that you are using our graphics card at good place like F@H but just try to gain some benefit, that's way too f**king over and I want not only the 23 million people know this.

 

update:the URL of the mining pool can't work now.

But we still got the address of the mining pool, so we can get some information in other website, here is one

https://etherscan.io/address/0xbb98f2a83d78310342da3e63278ce7515d52619d

and value of the mining pool is $456,136.46…

 

 

and here are some funny comments 

I felt that's weird when FAQ said 6G VRAM is required.

 

That's smart, and if people use a non-ASUS graphics card will be more better cause the cost of the warranty or logistics can pass on other label.