Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail?

Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by detaro on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:33PM (#19348629)

their own statement: The drop in hash rate (over 50%) after the last Monero hard fork hit us hard. So did the “crash“ of the crypto currency market with the value of XMR depreciating over 85% within a year. This and the announced hard fork and algorithm update of the Monero network on March 9 has lead us to the conclusion that we need to discontinue Coinhive.

https://coinhive.com/blog/en/discontinuation-of-coinhive (you probably need to whitelist that in your adblocker to read it)

Sounds like "lots of work to do soon and not making all that much money, not worth it". (surely being known as "malware" didn't help either...)

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Coinhive, the in-browser crypto miner, fail? by Scoundreller on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:32PM (#19348956)

I think this is the best kind of site to use archive.is on: http://archive.is/6gbeU

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