{"id":124812,"date":"2021-07-11T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/3800-ps4s-found-and-seized-from-a-cryptocurrency-farm-in-ukraine"},"modified":"2021-07-11T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:23:50","slug":"3800-ps4s-found-and-seized-from-a-cryptocurrency-farm-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/3800-ps4s-found-and-seized-from-a-cryptocurrency-farm-in-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"3,800 PS4s found and seized from a cryptocurrency farm in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXdc2BoJGHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WTF?! On Thursday the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) reported that they had shut down a cryptomining operation in the city of Vinnytsia, seizing over 500 GPUs and 50 processors \u2014 and a bunch of Playstation 4s. Consoles built on 2013-era technology might not be great at mining, but they don\u2019t need to be when you have 3800 of them.<\/p>\n<p>Although the market for GPUs is starting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/90328-graphics-cards-prices-fall-sharply-second-month-row.html\">improve<\/a>, and dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/89591-bitmain-places-orders-5nm-mining-chips-tsmc.html\">ASICs<\/a> might be on the way to relieve demand, it seems that one group of enterprising cryptocurrency miners have turned to last-gen console hardware to get things done.<\/p>\n<p>From the photos provided by the SSU, it looks like these consoles are of the PS4 Slim variety, the 2016 refresh of the original console from three years prior. Mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/90078-cyberpunk-2077-returns-playstation-store-next-week-performance.html\">obsolete<\/a> for newer games, it\u2019s not at all surprising that so many could be sourced <i>en masse<\/i> so easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTF?! On Thursday the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) reported that they had shut down a cryptomining operation in the city of Vinnytsia, seizing over 500 GPUs and 50 processors \u2014 and a bunch of Playstation 4s. Consoles built on 2013-era technology might not be great at mining, but they don\u2019t need to be when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1761,1492,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies","category-security","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}