JLjlgaddis·Jan 28, 2018
Or, in other words: "Just spin up this infrastructure -- which includes pre-generated SSH keys, an sshd that's apparently accessible from anywhere in the world, and a pre-compiled miner that you can't audit -- to mine some cryptocurrency -- for me -- at a huge loss".
Yeah, I think I'll pass.
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ETA: The readme says to pass in "wallet_address" but I don't see that referenced anywhere in main.tf, although I do see this: https://github.com/17twenty/ethereum-miner-terraform/blob/ma....
I've never used Terraform, though, so maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like you can pass a wallet address in, it just won't be used. If that's the case, I don't see how this is anything but a "scam". Someone who knows Terraform please look into this and tell me I'm wrong.
One last thing: the readme says it uses the "Deep Learning AMI for Ubuntu 1604" [0], but th
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e AMI ID in main.tf ("ami-37bb714d") doesn't match any of the IDs shown in the screenshot on that page (but perhaps they were updated or something?). I don't know if that's something to worry about or not but, at this point, there's no way I would trust this AT ALL. Also, "ami-cd0f5cb6" is referenced in a comment in main.tf but there's no indication what that refers to (I don't use EC2 so I'm not sure if it's possible to find out or not).
[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/07/aws-deep-...