Youtuber Siraj Raval claims to have been able to mine $800 per month in ether (ETH) cryptocurrency using Tesla Model 3. However, other Tesla enthusiasts questioned the accuracy of Raval's claims. Miner Thomas Somers said that the numbers the YouTuber claimed are simply not true. According to Somers, Tesla Model 3 GPUs are capable of delivering up to 7-10 Mh/s. According to Etherscan, such capacities bring the miner only ~$13 per month at an ETH rate of $3149.
Even if we rely on the historical maximum ether at a rate of $4812, then Siraj Raval should receive up to $20 per month.
Not the first time
This is not the first time that Raval has been at the center of a scandal. At the end of 2019, the YouTuber was caught plagiarizing a scientific article on neural qubits. As the user AndrewM_Webb noted, Raval stole whole fragments of the article from other authors of similar work – Nathan Killoran, Seth Lloyd and their co-authors. On some occasions, Raval has paraphrased quotations from original works.
Siraj Raval confesses to a previous lie
A month later, Raval posted a video on YouTube in which he admitted that he frequently used another person's code for his YouTube videos and passed it off as his own. Raval continued by saying that it was selfish of him to do so. He remained silent , nevertheless, on the incident involving the article's plagiarism.
