Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser”
by davidgerard on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @12:21PM
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I suspect "Bitcoin" here is a synecdoche for "cryptocurrency" in general. (in the manner of intrusion detection software flagging a Monero miner as a "Bitcoin miner".) Plenty you can still mine on a CPU/GPU ... particularly if it's not your electricity.
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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser”
by ringaroundthetx on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @12:47PM
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> I suspect "Bitcoin" here is a synecdoche for "cryptocurrency" in general.
An advantage for all of us that actually get this market. Perpetuated market inefficiencies due to ignorance