Is Cooking Mama a cryptocurrency miner?

Cooking Mama: Cookstar Cryptomining Rumor refers to disproven allegations that the 2020 game Cooking Mama: Cookstar contains cryptocurrency mining software that deteriorates Nintendo Switch consoles it is installed on. The allegations were spawned by a 4chan 's /v/ post and received viral spread on Twitter in early April 2020.

Does 'Cooking Mama' 'Cookstar' heat up devices after mining bitcoin?

This weekend, a Redditor posted a complaint against the app saying that "Cooking Mama: Cookstar," heats up devices after it mines Bitcoin. Unfortunately, the post has now been deleted by Nintendo Switch.

How to be a crypto miner?

In order to be a crypto miner, you need both special hardware and mining software. Without them, you won’t be able to connect your Bitcoin miners to the blockchain, or to the pool, if you are part of a Bitcoin mining pool. Here we take a look and give you our recommendation on the best cryptocurrency mining software.

What is the Cooking Mama controversy?

Overall, the Cooking Mama controversy is yet another absurd news item in an already breakneck news cycle, even with both the developer and publisher having swiftly shut down allegations of cryptocurrency mining. More...