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Re:Elph wants to be the Netscape for cryptocurrency by theamk on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:35PM (#17306245)
You almost got me scared there! I was going to switch to Brave on my tablet to get better power saving / faster experience via adblocking. However, having blockchain in the browser would defeat the whole thing, making everything much slower instead.

Luckily, they only seem to incorporate BAT, which is fully opt-in, and seems to have no overhead for regular users.

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Re:Elph wants to be the Netscape for cryptocurrency by berberous on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:48PM (#17306800)
FYI - using the Metamask plugin with Chrome/Firefox (which allows you to use DApps; Elph is basically just combining the two) does not slow anything down. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it is definitely not the same thing as keeping a Bitcoin or Ethereum node running.
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