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by nwh 4810 days ago
2700 servers probably wouldn't be worth much for that. It would be noticed fairly quickly, given that only CPU mining would be available, and how monitored servers usually are.
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If you can hide the fact that you've rooted a box, you should be able to hide the fact that you're doing bitcoin mining. Worst case, run the mining in the kernel idle thread...
The apocalyptic heat and power use might be a giveaway.