Razer, the zSilver scam: Their software hides an Ethereum and Monero miner
Unprecedented scam by Razer, hiding from users that it uses its resources to mine Monero and Ethereum and giving them crumbs.
The Razer thing is already beginning to cry out to heaven. The company some time ago introduced the zGold and zSilver tokens that you could get by playing mini-games for a long time to get a peripheral. Now the company has gone one step further and developed a utility to scam users who download a tool to 'mine' the zSilver token, but they are not really doing that since the file we downloaded from the Razer website hides two miners: one to mine Ethereum with GPU and the other to mine Monero with CPU.
Razer lies and scams users into mining Ethereum and Monero for them.
It is not indicated anywhere that the company what it does is obtain cryptocurrencies without the slightest cost, since the electrical cost and the wear and tear of the hardware is at the expense of the user, who will receive up to 500 zSilver per day in the best of cases, something that does not compensate the costs of this practice. If the scam is pathetic, it is complemented in that it makes intensive use and at the same time of the CPU and the GPU, preventing the user from doing absolutely anything while this application is running.
It should be noted that at Razer they are not idiots, since they give us the equivalent in a token to only use in their store as a consideration. This token is not based on its own or third-party blockchain, a strategy to bypass the regulatory control of organizations such as the SEC and the CNMV, since it is a closed token, which does not change in value and that we obtain for a job that we do. It is an unprecedented sow by a company without the slightest scruples or professional ethics.
We have never lied about it and we do not have third-party tools that mine while you enter our website, as pages such as 'The Pirate Bay' or similar have done. We are lovers of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and we mine locally, with systems that we have paid for ourselves, paying for electricity and with the personal cost of maintenance. Even Marcos optimized a specific miner for Lyra2rev2 that generated 15% more than the original miner and without charging anything for it, since it was free of royalties and the like.
We believe that what Razer does is immoral and we could almost say illegal, since it is not properly informing users. It should also be noted that the points (you can not even call these shits tokens) that we receive expire in 12 months. To get a € 50 mouse you need an investment of about € 70-80 in electrical costs, not counting the wear and tear of the hardware and operating this software for more than 100 days, which is a real savagery. But if you want one of the top-of-the-range keyboards and assuming that you get 500 zSilver every day, it takes more than 500 days to get the keyboard, which is almost two years, therefore half of the points you would not have, anymore. that would have expired.
Logically we are against this practice, since we consider that it should be the users who decide to mine cryptocurrencies and not be used by third parties and less in the case of a company that sells components with a significant extra cost and that generates profits. Without a doubt, Razer has skidded tremendously in this case and has done something unthinkable for a first-rate brand. The US authorities believe that they should enter ex officio, analyze this and impose the corresponding sanctions, since people are lied to and deceived.
