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Re:Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs by darawk on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:10AM (#16418630)
Using that battery power does not 'let' anyone buy into the pyramid scheme. People buying monero or not is orthogonal to Salon mining it in your browser. Salon mining it does not in any way facilitate people buying it.
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Re:Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:27AM (#16418701)
Monero itself is worthless for Salon until they exchange it to USD, either directly or through a chain of other cryptocurrencies. Either way, for them to get the USD, some schmuck somewhere needs to buy the coin.
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Re:Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs by darawk on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:14PM (#16433025)
That doesn't mean they're doing anything to cause that person to buy it. That person was going to buy that coin without Salon's help.
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Re:Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs by la_oveja on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:35AM (#16418744)
Like any coin, if the others dont see value on it, it's worthless.
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Re:Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs by realitycheck_13 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:59PM (#16425509)
But last I checked people do value it. So what are you talking about?
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