[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

My point was:

If an interpreted language inside a browser is profitable, then compiled
binaries can do it better.

On 10/11/17, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
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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.
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> 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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