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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by Retric on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:33AM (#15124537)
Mining on GPU's is generally not profitable, but if you don't pay for the GPU or electricity then numbers look different. Especially if you get some people that keep active tabs open for days.

Really the ROI is vs a 40MB download and a few days of R&D.

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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by Rjevski on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:34AM (#15124546)
I doubt browser-based mining is even using the GPU at all.
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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by Retric on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:15AM (#15124832)
HTML5 gives access to GPU resources. EX: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requ...
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