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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by solomatov on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:49PM (#14449946)
>- Bitcoin mining that regular user can't detect

It makes very little sense to mine on anything other than ASICs.

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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by winstonewert on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:52PM (#14449956)
Is that still true if someone else foots the power bill?
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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by sowbug on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:24PM (#14450059)
Put it this way: once you factored in the price of the bus fare to get to the public library to borrow a terminal to check your giant botnet's bitcoin earnings, your criminal enterprise would be operating at a loss.

CPU mining hasn't been viable since 2011 when bitcoin difficulty was below 1,000,000, and today it's near 600,000,000,000.

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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by floatboth on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @07:33AM (#14451668)
Ethereum is mined on GPUs (that's why Radeons are out of stock everywhere all the time :D)
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