Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoProof-of-storage based cryptocurrency. The article says when it became non-profitable, the drives were reset so their smart stats would appear new, and sold them as such.
OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Seems like that should be illegal, like changing the odometer on a car, but what do I know.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sure is, this would fall under fraud at the very least; but laws only stop those willing to obey them. Now it’s a matter of figuring out who to punish.