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Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by Houshalter on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:42PM (#15271312)
Bitcoin quickly moved to GPUs and then ASICs, making mining them with CPUs pointless. Some coins are designed to be very difficult to mine with GPUs or ASICs, so a Browser based miner isn't so ridiculous. Wasm also makes it a bit faster.
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Re:Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners by mikeash on Sunday September 17, 2017 @05:35PM (#15271833)
What sort of return per user-hour would you be looking at with one of those?
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