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Actually its an advertised feature and you keep most of the ETH you mined: https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...

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> Norton Crypto is included as part of Norton 360 subscriptions. However, there are coin mining fees as well as transaction costs to transfer Ethereum. The coin mining fee is currently 15% of the crypto allocated to the miner.

So I have to pay money to subscribe to mine Norton Crypto and then pay a mining fee on top of that? That's amazing. Are they going to partner with QuickBooks so that I can subscribe to that as well and for a low 15% transaction fee they'll handling filing the taxes for me?

If it's installed without warning, I'm sure you'll also get a lovely surprise on your electricity bill when it turns out your laptop has been mining crypto when you thought it was sleeping.

They're basically turning their installed user base into a botnet and charging customers money for the pleasure. I hope they get taken to court over it.

Your electricity bill is $10.00 higher this month. But don't worry! You earned $8.50 in your Norton Crypto wallet.

Congratulations! This month you have earned 8 "dollars" and 50 "cents" in NortCoin(tm).

That you now have to pay $5 in fees to extract from said wallet.

It is installed but not activated without warning AFAIK. According to https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v... the user must first agree to a Norton Crypto License and Services Agreement and then explicitly activate the miner before anything will happen.

> > The coin mining fee is currently 15% of the crypto allocated to the miner.

Hold up. Does the term "miner" refer to the pool here? Is "allocation" mining?

This can be read as the pool getting 85% of what miner mined, and allocating 15% fee to the miner.

You don't have to do anything. Maybe this product isn't for you.

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