They’re CPUs. They can just roll out a firmware update and be up and running again.
Anyone who’s been in software development long enough should know that the majority of total rewrite projects fail. Like 99% of the time. Community members throwing money at this proposal might as well be burning their cash.
Oh no, there’s a hidden deflation bug!
/s
Web mining was tried before. The payoff per hash is too small, far less profitable than inserting ads onto a website.