BlockCDN TV Box Miner Uses Spare Bandwidth to Make Coin

BlockCDN TV Box Miner Uses Spare Bandwidth to Make Coin

Chinese startup BlockCDN has announced the release and ICO for its set-top box miner, which uses spare bandwidth to mine cryptocurrencies. BlockCDN Miner is ‘Internet Waste Officer’. The software, currently only available for Android TV set-top boxes, is built on Ethereum smart contracts. The aim of the company is to create a content delivery network (CDN), which uses spare capacity to deliver content via a P2P network. “BlockCDN is a waste recovery officer for the Internet,” CEO Tony Long commented in a Medium post Thursday. The mining software is downloadable, with users needing to enter....


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