Yup Cryptojacking is real..,

back in July of 2022 I wrote about DERO  wondering when we would start to see what looked to be awesome private crypto tech start to get some real adoption.

Well #DERO has recently spiked up to US $8.00+, a 2 fold plus increase in  the past month... with modest daily volume crossing the US $1M mark, jumping into the Top 300 ranks..

Meaning more than a few cryptonauts (beyond Berwick) are using DERO to move their money around, 

So I decided to take another look..

Here is the latest of what I found, takeaways below:

Exchanges handling most  DERO  daily volumes- Kucoin and TradeOgre

DERO has a Medium site saying the following on March 11th (Whoops!)

"Network Disruption Resolution

On March 11, 2023 the DERO network suffered a chain split due to issues with developer controlled seed nodes. These nodes act as an anchor for network participants to uniformly sync with the rest of the blockchain network. Since services have yet to be restored, the blockchain remains split, which includes a chain that is stuck (seed nodes) and a heavier chain that has more mining activity. Since DERO utilizes proof-of-work consensus and the absence of our seed nodes, all network participants are left to choose which chain to follow.

Together with various esteemed members of our community, we have collectively decided to move forward with the heaviest chain as we continue to restore service to our seed nodes. Below, you will find instructions on how to get your node up and running by using community and foundation hosted public nodes."

TK- Not surprisingly the DERO price started to climb as did trade volumes once the heavier chain was adopted as the way forward, the  investor community is small and they have well researched through the 'grapevine' who the developers are.. 

on the DERO Forum

There is an increase in general information interest levels, and the 'few calls for help', a couple of lost fund pleas for help..

The first reported real Cryptojacking of unprotected Kubernetes pods to do malicious DERO mining took place about a month ago

https://siliconangle.com/2023/03/15/hackers-target-kubernetes-mine-little-know-dero-cryptocurrency/

A #Monero cryptojacking variant by malicious miners  has  been  reported deployed to utilize unprotected Kubernetes  managed CPU/RAM  with  software mining rigs deployed into containers as well

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/dero-cryptojacking-targets-kubernetes/

So there you have the latest cryptojacking malicious mining shenanigans update.

TK over and out

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TK's BONUS EXTRA DERO INSIGHT and 'CryptoJacking' RANT  (not for every reader...)

The Unintended Consequences of DERO's "Run Anywhere Mining with Good Chance of Mining Rewards"?

CryptoJacking of Kubernetes Pods and their Docker containerized CPU/RAM Resource by 'Malicious Miners' running 'run anywhere with decent chance of Rewards' soft mining rigs.

DERO's ability to run anywhere on low power nodes and still reap rewards has manifested and assisted what is certainly the unintended consequence of #Cryptojacking .., (here comes the HOW part...)

consequences which are only possible because of shitty IT security deployments of Kubernetes Pods found to be available through security holes (default passwords, weak passwords or inside job access grants during off hours?) by malicious miners making use of such flexible 'run anywhere reap some rewards" Crypto Blockchain Mining designs like DERO,  to  largely for free,  administratively and automatically takeover such poorly secured Kubernetes PODs, where the Cryptojackers are subsequently provisioning new containerized CPU Cycles and RAM shares to run their DERO Mining rigs  in those containers  with the CPU & RAM  resources necessary to quickly increase their potential to earn rewards per Mining "Block Reward Generation" Epoch without having to pay for IT infrastructure and power in the process.  It's likely these Cryptojacker Miners using DERO use a 'Rinse, Move & Repeat'  MO  to cover up their tracks and stay ahead of the authorities (less BS and much quieter than Ransomware? likely..)

So this 'Cryptojacking News is less about DERO and more about the mix of malicious miners and stupid Kubernetes Admins and the resulting net loss of Compute Power endured by crap cyber-security business practices employed.

The ZERO to HERO 'To the Moon Play' might still be DERO in the Cryptosphere for Crypto Privacy Coin Investors

DERO is still imo, is certainly one future 'to the moon' play to watch and possibly invest in (high risk/high return imo), as the tech team behind DERO has certainly exhibited the 'tech chops' to  make DERO  that much more useful to those investors and business seeking  transaction privacy for their business practices  to  protect their 'person to person and B-2-B money flows' and  private smart contract settlements from  prying 'government eyes'  and the current 'govt overreach' going on. The current regime types who frankly in most parts of the world  march to a different 'pay for my lavish  govt lifestyle' set of objectives which clash with Main St. private entrepreneurial capitalist objectives of most honest Enterprises and SMBs.

Is DERO powering today's modern day "MinuteMen" Continental Soldier CryptoJacking of Kubernetes Containerized CPU/RAM Resources?

Imo it's likely so in some cases, however 

let's not also forget those screaming loudest about privacy coin mis-use to hide their transactions with DERO are also the ones screaming loudest about the 'centralized control virtues' of CBDCs, the same bankers and  globalist crony capitalists behind CBDCs 'calling the shots' to have the #FED maintain the FIAT status quo for them, kicking the  'buying power stealing' FIAT can 'Ponzi Scheme' down the road even longer to stay in control and get richer. (A Globalist Crony Capitalist Ponzi Scheme successfully stealing your wealth and buying power in the USA and Worldwide, organized as a  USA govt sanctioned private inter-banking operation officially since 1913)

What is clear now to me, is that 'we  the people' seeking truth freedom, prosperity, health and justice for all, 

are just starting to wake up the little known fact,

That maybe, just maybe

 a few of our compatriots have likely started replaced 'long guns and continental soldiers/minutemen' with  'cryptonauts and privacy coins' to effectively fight Crony Capitalist Govt enforced Centralized Tyranny, by hitting hit them at the 'source of their fuel' where it hurts the most,   

which is reducing the effectiveness of Crony Capitalist  money supply expansion/contraction shenanigans which is deliberately used to steal our buying power (via interest rate fueled inflation and money scarcity, or visa versa with zero rate interest and over money supply) and use their debt collect and market manipulation  'windfalls'  to fuel senseless wars to cull us and always keep us in their fiat debt shackles (since Sumerian times BCE 3000 or so).

So these recent DERO Cryptojacking events can also be seen through a different 'freedom fighter lens'  to mean a few cryptonauts in the cryptosphere space are legitimately NOT using the crony capitalist money system and NOT letting their puppeted globalist regimes tax what they should not be able to tax,

which is to say, these Cryptonaut freedom fighters are protecting their legitimate constitutionally protected right to create new wealth in the form of better products and services which improve civilization and prospertity for all. It is through their creation of new products and services  these 'freedom loving' entrepreneurs better our civilization and individual prosperity and health and by using DERO avoid unfair and often illegal govt taxation in the process.

( UK Colonies in America 1763 Grog/Bumbo Tax Stamp revolt or Boston Tea Tax Stamp Party revolts leading to the 1776 Revolution anyone?)

So aren't those DERO rogue 'freedom fighting' privacy coin miners out there, who may be also commandeering crony capitalist (they are only ones who can afford to run Kubernetes managed IT systems)  CPU cycle time and RAM,

a sign of growing resistance to these corrupt old school crony capitalist ways of money supply manipulation & debt slavery shackles foisted on the masses? (Shackles we as most of the people  suffer under , where  DERO types of miners are actually avoiding such shackles. )

Imo given the above, DERO must be seen only as a tool and when placed in the honest Cryptonaut's  investor toolbox,  DERO becomes a  'freedom fighter' tool for good and not evil.

That said DERO's 'run anywhere and for potential rewards' irony is there nothing stopping the crony capitalists from using the same DERO privacy coin tool for their evil money laundering,

which laughably  if you think about it,   their laundering should be encouraged because such crony capitalist 'lemming laundering' leads to their own  FIAT and CBDC system's demise.  :)

So one might ask How might the DERO journey play-out?

Well you the crypto investor, driven by your own belief system,  will most likely place your high risk/reward 'bets' in the cryptosphere 

AND will imo,

based on your own convictions place your bets to become  part of those cryptosphere collective bets

to become what is the 'collective judging action' over time,

which  ULTIMATELY determines DERO's crypto fate, and the fate of FIAT and CBDCs.

The moral of my bonus rant?

It's easy,

Don't be a Crony Capitalist when you invest in or mine DERO, 

that is, use DERO as an effective tool for GOOD not evil.

That said,

Yeah cryptosphere betting karma can be a bitch.., and so can 'run anywhere for rewards' mining Karma be a bitch,

(you know the rest of it.)  ;)

You all know what to do, that is do the right thing to PROTECT your family, your business, the fruits of your hard work and the resulting stores of value FROM those that will take it from you, via govt decree and CBDCs who manically work 24*7*365 continue to further erode your buying power and make your the poorer for it.

Be safe everyone,

TK over and out ;)