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Tom's "Hardware" reports that Mexican cartels are using GPUs to "mine Bitcoin (BTC), Monero (XMR), and Tether (USDT)." Bitcoin hasn't been meaningfully GPU-mined in over a decade. Tether can't be mined at all. One should infer a different use case for those 300 GPUs.
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AI visual note: A Tom's Hardware article headline announces that police seized 300 GPUs and hydroelectric-powered infrastructure from a Mexican cartel's crypto farm in Puebla. The accompanying post points out technical inaccuracies in the article's claim that the GPUs were mining BTC, XMR, and USDT, since Bitcoin hasn't been GPU-minable for years and Tether can't be mined—suggesting an alternative purpose for the hardware.