Ondalf Stardust

what are those? or what do you think those would do? i've never heard that term personally in this context

Which service is asking you to do so? Since more I try to understand, how that can be misused, the more it feels like generic metamask scam attempt, which won't really work on...

You are using it already? It gets generated on startup. Just like bitcoin used to have

oh, you mean, using the node FOR mining purpose - like YOU are the pool?

And since kawpow has dag like ethash, do you happen to have 6gb cards mixed there, which runs the desktop UI as well? That may cause it as one possible reason