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throwaway2016a wrote: post #71

detaro wrote: post #47

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> This is much better than I thought it would be. I wonder how many commentors actually tried the demos. In what way is it better than your expectations? (For me, it behaved as expected: immediately maxed my CPU load and spun up the fan)

My expectations were pretty low. I was expecting it to be doing something with the user's consent or using some sort of UX anti-pattern to trick the user into doing it. I was pleasantly surprised. As far as performance. It didn't do enough to spin up my fan. My CPU only went to 30% (inclusive of all the other apps I have running (using Chrome on OS X). I was under the impression most browser limit how much CPU the Ja…

That's not entirely the case. Just this weekend I managed to crash my browser multiple times after forgetting to clamp a loop that ran multiple canvas operations. CPU shot steady to 100% and my entire system locked up for a bit.

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by drusepth » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

rihegher wrote: post #17

ada1981 wrote: post #15

How much does this earn per user per minute, on average? Any estimtes?

to earn 0.01 USD you need 1MH at the moment. In my browser I can generate 25H/S so about 44 days on one browser to generate 1$

I tried double checking this math but I have a question on this.

Coinhive says their formula is:

(/) * * 0.7

and then goes on to give an example of:

(/29275633095) * 6.51 XMR * 0.7 = 0.000156 XMR per 1M hashes

Does this mean the original formula (XMR gain) is actually per million solved hashes (instead of per solved hash)? If so, it seems like a million hashes would only give you 0.0000000001556584613 XMR ($0.00000001519798996).

If that payout formula is actually per hash (and if so, why do they say "per million hashes" in the example?), you'd end up with a much more reasonable 0.0001556584613 XMR ($0.015 at $97.64-monero).

Am I just reading their site stupidly wrong (and/or do I just have a gross misunderstanding of how this all works)?

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by timsayshey » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 2:27 PM UTC

maxencecornet wrote: post #82

ramses0 wrote: post #80

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And post / re-post: "I tried that crypto-coin ad alternative thing and you won't believe these results!" ;-)

>And post / re-post: "I tried that crypto-coin ad alternative thing and you won't believe these results!" ;-) Haha, according to what I've gathered for the few past hours, it seems that ads are still way more viable. But I'll write my conclusions in 3 days

"3 days ago" ಠ_ಠ

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 6:50 PM UTC

maxencecornet wrote: post #30

I'll try it right now on a website with 1k visits per day, with 40 seconds session average. I will report back in a few days

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Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by ada1981 » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 3:35 PM UTC

ericfrederich wrote: post #39

rihegher wrote: post #17

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to earn 0.01 USD you need 1MH at the moment. In my browser I can generate 25H/S so about 44 days on one browser to generate 1$

2,112 users 30 minutes on your site

I'm confused how they say they had 2,000 users and generated $6k in 2 weeks.

Also, they say that they had 120KH/s hashing power on average with 2k users.

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by ada1981 » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 12:45 PM UTC

drusepth wrote: post #94

rihegher wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

to earn 0.01 USD you need 1MH at the moment. In my browser I can generate 25H/S so about 44 days on one browser to generate 1$

I tried double checking this math but I have a question on this. Coinhive says their formula is: ( / ) * * 0.7 and then goes on to give an example of: ( /29275633095) * 6.51 XMR * 0.7 = 0.000156 XMR per 1M hashes Does this mean the original formula (XMR gain) is actually per million solved hashes (instead of per solved hash)? If so, it seems like a million hashes would only give you 0.0000000001556584613 XMR ($0.0000…

They also say they were able to generate $2k in 2 weeks with an avg of 2,000 users...

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by ramses0 » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 9:46 PM UTC

maxencecornet wrote: post #82

ramses0 wrote: post #80

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And post / re-post: "I tried that crypto-coin ad alternative thing and you won't believe these results!" ;-)

>And post / re-post: "I tried that crypto-coin ad alternative thing and you won't believe these results!" ;-) Haha, according to what I've gathered for the few past hours, it seems that ads are still way more viable. But I'll write my conclusions in 3 days

"6 days ago" ಠ_ಠ

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by sdiepend » Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 1:20 PM UTC

timsayshey wrote: post #95

maxencecornet wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>And post / re-post: "I tried that crypto-coin ad alternative thing and you won't believe these results!" ;-) Haha, according to what I've gathered for the few past hours, it seems that ads are still way more viable. But I'll write my conclusions in 3 days

"3 days ago" ಠ_ಠ

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