[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Ronald Barnes]

Bob Jonkman wrote on 2017-10-11 02:13 PM:

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> All in all, I'd rather mine some digital coin for a site that I
> support, rather than be subjected to the ads they inject.

This is the elusive micro-transaction payment system that's been 
sought-after since the dawn of web page banners and ad networks.


I wonder if it'll catch on beyond the few-ish sites that have 
experimented with it so far?


r b

> 
> - --Bob, who would love to see a presentation on coin-mining using a
> Raspberry Pi...
> 
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> On 2017-10-11 04:39 PM, Stuart Seeley wrote:
>> TLDR: They're getting their hundreds of thousands of visitors to
>> mine monero in their browsers on their behalf.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:30 PM, CrankyOldBugger
>> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> There's more detail on TorrentFreak about what TPB was doing.
>>> But if you're worried about visiting TPB, your AdBlock add-in
>>> should take care of you:
>>> https://torrentfreak.com/cryptocurrency-miner-
>>> targeted-by-anti-virus-and-adblock-tools-170926/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 at 16:24 Stuart Seeley<stuart at lowlevel.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have.. though I don't currently.  (Mined and day traded
>>>> between 2009 and 2013.)
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:19 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>>>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> While I'm very curious about bitcoin and related ecurrencies,
>>>>> I have to ask... is anyone here making any money off of
>>>>> this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 at 14:23bob+kwlug at softscape.ca  <
>>>>> bob+kwlug at softscape.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not affiliated and saddened that simply buying the
>>>>>> books does not load them into my brain, but if anyone is
>>>>>> interested:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.humblebundle.com/books/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-books
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
> Bob.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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