Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses CoinHive

Re:Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses Coi... by Vadoff on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:46AM (#15898196)

Coinhive estimates that a user with a mid-range laptop would have a hashrate of 30 h/s.

10 minutes of mining = 30 * 10 * 60 = 18,000 hashes

Since Coinhive pays out 0.000090 XMR per million hashes (current rate as of Dec 11. 2017), that's $0.0004250394 per user (18000/1000000 * 0.000090 * 262.37).

In order to make $1, you would need 2,353 visitors with laptops mining for 10 minutes each.

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Re:Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses Coi... by Fire1Assassin on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:56PM (#15898787)

I’m guessing this would work extremely well if it were set up as a honey pot at University? Tempted to test it.

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