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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by 6nf on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:17AM (#15336114)
Yes this is what I calculated as well. Regular ads are still way more profitable - even if you somehow convince all your visitors to keep your page open 24/7.

Even coinhive admit that you can't use this to make real money.

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by pr0gramm on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:41AM (#15337134)
If it's worth it depends on the site, your target audience and the ads you'd be allowed to show based on your content.

At this point, we (Coinhive) have paid out 992 XMR (about $89.000) to our users. We started this service 11 days ago.

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by jacquesm on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:44AM (#15337792)
$89.000 or $89,000?
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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by kbart on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:14AM (#15337913)
This still doesn't clear things up (both "," and "." can be used as thousands and fractions separation symbol, depending on locale). A more international way is to use whitespace or nothing at all for thousands ($89 000 or $89000) and use "," or "." (depending on locale) for fractions only.
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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by lpellis on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:38AM (#15338489)
992 XMR is about $88000 ( https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/ ), so the 2nd one
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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by jandrese on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:43AM (#15339643)
Who says you have to do only one?
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