I've done some analysis of the game's code and network traffic behaviour, as well as GPU usage. As far as I can tell, this game isn't a miner. In order to mine cryptocurrencies you need to use network traffic. I put Wireshark on the game and nothing was really going on in UDP (used by ethereum discovery protocol) that wasn't server network traffic. I also checked the source code for ethereum/bitcoin addresses, "miner", "gpu", etc. No hits. The class names didn't have anything suspicious. I looked for requests to their website, nothing suspicious. As far as I can tell, this is just a really badly (graphics wise) optimized game.

Dev, fix your ♥♥♥♥.

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You can view the source yourself by going to game files, /SCP_ET_Data/Managed/Assembly-CSharp.dll. I used JetBrains dotPeek to view the decompiled source but any C# decompiler will do. Usually if someone puts a crypto miner in software they will use a library to do it (since writing crypto code is difficult), there are no such libraries included. Most common coin wallet addresses will have similar start characters. BTC start with 1, 3, or bc1. ETH start with 0x. There weren't any strings in the code with those starters that were addresses for such coins.

As for Wireshark, install it, start listening on your network adapter. Filter to UDP. As other reviews have stated, the lag doesn't start until you join a server. Upon joining a server, the network goes crazy (sending movement updates, etc. Normal server comms). However, crypto network traffic is very distinguishable and has its own protocol. Nothing of the sort happens. Also, the game, network wise, only communicates with the host server. The only traffic that goes directly to the game / developer's servers is clearly visible HTTP traffic requesting things like the main menu news articles. Otherwise, everything was sent to the host server, which wouldn't really work if the goal was for the developer to get crypto.

I've done some analysis of the game's code and network traffic behaviour, as well as GPU usage. As far as I can tell, this game isn't a miner. In order to mine cryptocurrencies you need to use network traffic. I put Wireshark on the game and nothing was really going on in UDP (used by ethereum discovery protocol) that wasn't server network traffic. I also checked the source code for ethereum/bitcoin addresses, "miner", "gpu", etc. No hits. The class names didn't have anything suspicious. I looked for requests to their website, nothing suspicious. As far as I can tell, this is just a really badly (graphics wise) optimized game. Dev, fix your shit. --Technical Details-- You can view the source yourself by going to game files, /SCP_ET_Data/Managed/Assembly-CSharp.dll. I used JetBrains dotPeek to view the decompiled source but any C# decompiler will do. Usually if someone puts a crypto miner in software they will use a library to do it (since writing crypto code is difficult), there are no such libraries included. Most common coin wallet addresses will have similar start characters. BTC start with 1, 3, or bc1. ETH start with 0x. There weren't any strings in the code with those starters that were addresses for such coins. As for Wireshark, install it, start listening on your network adapter. Filter to UDP. As other reviews have stated, the lag doesn't start until you join a server. Upon joining a server, the network goes crazy (sending movement updates, etc. Normal server comms). However, crypto network traffic is very distinguishable and has its own protocol. Nothing of the sort happens. Also, the game, network wise, only communicates with the host server. The only traffic that goes directly to the game / developer's servers is clearly visible HTTP traffic requesting things like the main menu news articles. Otherwise, everything was sent to the host server, which wouldn't really work if the goal was for the developer to get crypto.