Is this what it is doing to increase the difficulty with no return on price.
The instance is not mining, it's sole activity is to respond to
getblock API calls made by a bit of Python intended as a response to:
I'm looking for some simple code (e.g. Python, Go, C, Perl, Java, etc.) to scrape blocks to JSON / text.
https://gist.github.com/gjhiggins/358c08af544e10e7ee03ff8b9b124005Cheers
Graham