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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by icanhackit on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:03AM (#15336321)
At the end of my post I suggested it be standardised at the browser level for this purpose. Just because the implementation sucks now doesn't mean it has to always suck.
Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by wolco on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:05AM (#15336767)
It is a non scalable model. The more people who use this the greater the rating for mining. Currently it takes 5.5 billion hashes to meet the min payment for coinhive. At full power you might get 30h/s per person on a desktop or 15h/s on a phone. If you had 10000 mobile visitors who came everyday and stayed 1 minute it would take 10000 days to get min payout: 1/2 a monero coin so about 40/50 dollars. I don't see how this will replace advertising where one affilate sale could replace this income.