[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Bob Jonkman]

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Mining in Javascript is profitable for the website that receives the
results of my browser's work. It is not profitable for me, who expends
my CPU cycles and my electricity to perform the work.

- --Bob.


On 2017-10-11 04:11 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Here is something I mentioned in passing, about web site sending 
> Javascript to mine cryptocurrency in a distributed fashion on
> their visitors' browsers ...
> 
> If mining (for a certain cryptocurrency, Monero in this case) is
> profitable in Javascript,  then it can be done on less powerful
> hardware (for the time being, until it becomes unprofitable).
> 
> https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/10/11/1929250/pirate-bay-is-mining-cryptocurrency-again-no-opt-out
>
> 
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