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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by bitxbitxbitcoin on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:43PM (#19348368)
Hope this helps illustrate the point:

That $250,000 every month amount was made at the cost of way more than $250,000 worth of electricity.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by entelia09 on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:45PM (#19348375)
But it wasn't coinhive or coinhive's users who were paying for it. Website visitors carried the cost...
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by Scoundreller on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:37PM (#19348981)
And website visitors may have gotten website content that wouldn't have existed otherwise.

We wouldn't have as much web content as we do today if it weren't for web advertising. (Just another form of payment).

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by JshWright on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:02PM (#19348455)
We were all paying for it...
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by nukemandan on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:09PM (#19348490)
But the cost to remove ads here is very worth spending that electricity over my attention.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by criddell on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:24PM (#19348577)
What about the environmental and other external costs?

I run an ad blocker most of the time because crappy ads and ad-tech uses a lot of bandwidth and battery. Crypto-mining is even worse for power consumption.

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