Digging into Browser-Based Crypto Mining

Re:Digging into Browser-Based Crypto Mining by cinooo on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:04AM (#17965469)

There are a number of other crypto coins that can be mined via the browser, most notably Nimiq which uses an algorithm (Argon2d) that is ASIC resistant meaning in theory it should be even more profitable for normal day users without high end GPU systems to mine.

Nimiq itself is making some pretty interesting tech implementations such as being written ground up in Javascript and rewriting core parts in Rust so it will run in the browser via web assembly. Their code base is worth checking out: https://github.com/nimiq-network/core

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Re:Digging into Browser-Based Crypto Mining by lifthrasiir on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:22AM (#17965742)

While the paper prominently mentions Monero as an example of browser-based mining, the first part of the analysis is independent of specific cryptocurrencies because it looks for heavy wasm usages. (The second part of the analysis is specifically targeted to Coinhive as it had the largest share, however.)

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