Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins
by IncRnd on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:27AM
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This isn't bitcoin. The mining is completely different.
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Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins
by aaron-lebo on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:30AM
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You're right.
Monero is different. To mine Monero, you have to calculate hashes with an algorithm called Cryptonight. This algorithm is very compute heavy and – while overall pretty slow – was designed to run well on consumer CPUs.
There are solutions to run the Cryptonight algorithm on a GPU instead, but the benefit is about 2x, not 10000x like for other algorithms used by Bitcoin or Ethereum. This makes Cryptonight a nice target for JavaScript and the Browser.