cryptomining
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of reverse-engineering the encryption used by cryptocurrency in order to generate cryptocurrency.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It’s almost as if cryptomining were designed to break graphics cards – miners usually run their graphics cards for 24 hours, and the process creates a lot of heat."
- "Demin warned that more companies could face malicious software capable of cryptomining. Of late, a number of businesses were caught running cryptomining code on their websites to secretly generate digital currencies as an alternative to online advertising."
- "One currency that is actively mined through cryptomining malware is Monero."