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Re:Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses Coi... by ryangittins on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:23AM (#15898017)
Even if they did this in all Starbucks locations, I can't see it really making any money. Ten seconds on a laptop CPU rounds to zero. Coinhive has just never made any sense to me in practice. Maybe 5+ years ago, but not today. What a mismatch of effort and timing.
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Re:Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses Coi... by mipmap04 on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:31AM (#15898084)
Coinhive seems pretty upfront with this though (to answer "Will this work on my site?":

"Technically yes, economically probably not. If you run a blog that gets 10 visits/day, the payout will be miniscule. For the captcha and shortlinks with a sensible hash goal (1024–16384) you'll need to have a whole lot of users to make this worthwhile."

I do like it as an accessibility friendly captcha system, though.

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Re:Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses Coi... by 55555 on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:44AM (#15898181)
Coinhash mines monero and it is a business aimed towards hackers who want to monetize websites they have access to.
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