CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers

Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by pr0gramm on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:37AM (#15337117)

That may be true for Ethereum or Bitcoin, but not for Monero.

The Coinhive Monero miner is about 65% as fast as a native miner would be, at least in Browsers that support WASM.

Disclaimer: I wrote the Coinhive Monero miner.

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by joosters on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:08AM (#15337643)

How does it feel to see your code getting used worldwide... almost entirely by deceitful scum?

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by bfuller on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:18AM (#15338349)

You get a lot of hate. But I think what you did was really cool!

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by csomar on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:24AM (#15337970)

Thank you very much for this information. Supports for WASM looks decent. Looking into it now!

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:17AM (#15338334)

Only 65%? That’s an opportunity for a 50% speedup by writing in native code. And running on the GPU would be even faster, no? What’s the protection against that?

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