Am I Mining to Somebody?

Cryptocurrency is one of the worst techs to be developed in recent years. It essentially monetized the practice of wasting CPU/GPU cycles. This in turn gave new incentives to malware writers, scammers, and generally just greedy opportunistic people to waste CPU/GPU whenever possible and as sneakily as possible...

&gt; chazragg: I&#x27;m not sure why docker is showing this as the most popular when itzg&#x27;s images have over 100m downloads with 1.3k stars.<p>&gt; gamb1t9: i think cuz my man uses the username &#x27;minecraft101&#x27;, it&#x27;s a better match than itzg.. rather crap search design by DockerHub<p>This really does seem to be the case. Searching for &quot;minecraft&quot;, itzg&#x2F;minecraft-server (100M+ download, 1.3k stars) is under two minecraft101 uploads (10K+ downloads, 0 stars) and minecraftly&#x2F;proxy (2.9K dls, 1 star). Interestingly, itgz beats out minecraftlinux&#x2F;ci-xenial by minecraftlinux (1.1k downloads). I have no idea what the heuristic is here...<p>I think &quot;Official Images&quot; go at the top of the search, and I can&#x27;t think of any other popular containers where the name of the container doesn&#x27;t match the name of the uploader, but there&#x27;s probably something here...

I mean it&#x27;s the minecraft docker image, at least the scammer has a developed sense of irony

They are not even trying to be sneaky about it. If you look at layers #42 and #43 at [0], you can see they are cloning and building xmrig&#x2F;xmrig [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;layers&#x2F;minecraft101&#x2F;minecraft-server&#x2F;latest&#x2F;images&#x2F;sha256-e161086893ee92271ab83668503dc4d71c6c2b1f7201a4efecc2856c167b07ed?context=explore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hub.docker.com&#x2F;layers&#x2F;minecraft101&#x2F;minecraft-server&#x2F;...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xmrig&#x2F;xmrig" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xmrig&#x2F;xmrig</a>

Your best bet is to report it here... and then wait a year for someone to actually remove it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;docker&#x2F;hub-feedback&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1121" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;docker&#x2F;hub-feedback&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1121</a>

Don&#x27;t run random untrusted code from the internet on your computer folks.

tl&#x2F;dr Yes

I wonder if this could be turned into a legitimate way of supporting open source developers? Run their docker images that have an option to configure running a miner during your down time.