Apparently, users get about 17 cents per day, so only very small amounts,so yes, pretty useless apart from for micro-transactions That illustrates my suspicion really that there’s an ulterior (dons the hat) motive.
If a bitcoin wallet is hard coded into the computer chip, then there is future potential to link every computer to every website visited, provable on the Blockchain, isn’t there?
They don’t plan on an alt coin and appear to already have massive mining centre - plus 75% of all the tiny amounts mined on the devices - this may be a large amount when added up. It looks like a takeover bid involving a number of entities toward a common goal - a means to an end…rather than an end in itself. 