THough depends if the miners use USB.

Heavy I/O can be counter intuitive to their initial set up strategy and resource use.

It is interesting though as to some coins are so GPU intensive that the rest of the resources just effectively consume power while contributing little.

I have actually emailed the developers of ethos distro about this thought.

USB use for imaging was brought up as why it wouldn’t be a pursuit, which I agree with (some).

Sometimes the general reward/cost ratio might have been met. If the power use is generally negligible, it is an opportunity to increase the profit margin, it will be considered. That and how hard it would be to implement in linux or windows.