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I've spent a large amount of time fending of bitcoin miners from abusing my site https://cloud.sagemath.com . I like the mathematics and promise of bitcoin, but in practice it is an enormous waste of resources (time, electricity, etc.).
How does the abuse on your site happen?
I'm surprised that it was large instances instead of GPU instances. GPU would be much more profitable if you are mining a scrypt coin (or sha256 coin but that would be stupid because of ASICs). Maybe it was some other type of coin (I'm not sure if primecoin is more CPU-friendly).
While I really feel badly for the person this happened to, I think we should stop expecting Amazon to foot the bill for these kinds of things. If I buy a new car and then leave the key sitting on the hood, I don't ask the car dealer to reimburse me when it gets stolen. Let's remember that Amazon is being incredibly generous by reimbursing users for these problems, but they should certainly not be expected to do so.
"I stupidly uploaded my private Amazon keys to a public website and somebody used them and ran up a huge bill. It must be somebody else's fault, not mine"
Boo-fuckin-Hoo! —was there something put into the water supply about 10 years ago that removed the entire human race's ability to take responsibility for their own actions?