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		wmf on June 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Launches Compute Engine To Take On Amazon W... Mining Bitcoins on any CPU is incredibly expensive. The largest VM would generate about $11/month.

pjscott on June 29, 2012 [–]

It's also not good as a benchmark, since Bitcoin mining is a very unusual workload for servers.

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