YouTuber who claimed to have mined in ethereum using Tesla admits to lying, plagiarizing

Siraj Raval, a YouTuber, claims to have mined $800 per month in ether (ETH) cryptocurrency using a Tesla Model 3. Raval is mentioned in an article on CNBC.

According to reports, a YouTuber was able to mine cryptocurrency using a cluster of GPUs powered by the batteries of an electric vehicle. 

While such a method may damage the car’s warranty, Raval thinks it’s “worth it” because he’s currently earning up to $800 per month from mining.

“This is a mobile computer… “It’s pretty simple to hack,” Siraj Raval says.

Far from the truth

Other Tesla devotees, on the other hand, questioned Raval’s statements. In an interview with CNBC, miner Thomas Somers stated that the figures provided by the YouTuber are just false. 

Tesla Model 3 GPUs, according to Somers, are capable of producing up to 7-10 Mh/s. At an ETH rate of $3149, such capacities bring the miner only $13 per month, according to Etherscan.

Siraj Raval should receive up to $20 per month even if we use the historical maximum ether rate of $4812. At the time of writing, the YouTuber has made no response to the criticism in his address.

This isn’t the first time Raval has been involved in a controversy. The YouTuber was discovered plagiarizing a research study on brain qubits at the end of 2019. 

Raval admits to lying in the past

Raval plagiarized entire sections of the manuscript from other writers of similar work — Nathan Killoran, Seth Lloyd, and their co-authors, as @AndrewM Webb pointed out.

Raval has used excerpts from original works on a few instances.

A month later, Raval posted a video on YouTube admitting that he frequently stole someone else’s code for his YouTube videos and presented it as his own. 

Raval then said it was his own “selfishness.”

He, on the other hand, remained silent about the issue involving the article’s plagiarism.

Image courtesy of Cointelegraph News/YouTube

Source: https://bitcoinerx.com/bitcoin/youtuber-who-claimed-to-have-mined-in-ethereum-using-tesla-admits-to-lying-plagiarizing/