Detection of bitcoin miners

Sense looks at fast (sub-second) transitions to detect on and off signatures. That means there are probably 2 good reasons Sense won’t find your rigs.

  1. You’re probably not powering up and down every few hours or even every day.
  2. Even if you were doing that, modern power supply on-off transitions are hard to detect since they don’t offer up the same kinds of telltale transition physics-based features that Sense is looking for: Things like phase angle, RC/RL/RLC constants, etc.

You might want to try using some Kasa smart-plugs if you really want to know… I did that for my daughter’s gaming computer a while back, just to see what the load looked like.

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