Using nefarious means to mine Bitcoins is nothing new - a botnet named ZeroAccess reportedly generates $2.7 million per year doing just that - but the fact that this came from within a trusted company is worrying. ESEA is donating the bitcoins to the American Cancer Society, along with an equal donation from its own account. ESEA co-founder Eric 'lpkane' Thunberg responded to the accusation, initially. The company quickly stopped the behavior after it was exposed by a user on the gaming network's forums (a post that Reddit later picked up). The ESEA client had been pooling the GPUs of users in order to generate more money for wallets held by ESEA staff. Of course, it seems like Foxs particular problem wouldnt have been fixed since he was able to get into a pug server just fine, but a lot of these mumble problems would have. For GPU passthrough you need to have a compatible gpu, cpu and motherboard, fiddle with bios settings, compile the linux kernel with special options and spit over your left shoulder three times. ESEA co-founder Eric lpkane Thunberg responded to the accusation, initially. The code, which was embeded in the ESEA client, used the gamers' powerful computers to mine the virtual currency without their knowledge. The TF2 community has decided (rightfully so) that private scrim servers and IRC pugs are better for TF2 than the ESEA client so we really only use the client for matches. The ESEA client had been pooling the GPUs of users in order to generate more money for wallets held by ESEA staff.
The idea was canned on April 12th, but the next day, the rogue employee secretly distributed the code without permission.
The full story on how and why the Bitcoin-mining software made its way to users' computers isn't yet available, but ESEA had been exploring the idea of adding a Bitcoin mining option to its client. Schmeiser is responsible for leading and coordinating the research, development, and client support of. ESEA, which describes itself as "the largest competitive video gaming community in North America," wasn't aware that the Bitcoin mining was taking place, and blames the behavior on a rogue employee out for personal gain. As the Education Division president at ACT, Dr. The mining began on April 13th and affected thousands of gamers, who unwittingly mined over $3,700 worth of the currency. "Mining" is the way Bitcoin is created - it involves dedicating some or all of a CPU or GPUs power to solving hashes, which in turn generates the virtual currency. The ESEA gaming network has been exploiting its users' powerful graphics cards to mine Bitcoins without their knowledge. Win your share of CS:GO skins, client skins, ESEA points and more during December and early January.