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Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by eigenvalue »

What a great idea. Seems like a disruptive new revenue model for sites with good content. I wonder if it will be co-opted for use by sites offering pirated content, which raises interesting legal/ethical questions since Coinhive keeps 30% of the mining profits (i.e., are they accomplices of the pirates since they are profiting from the illegal acts?)

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by maxencecornet »

ramses0 wrote: post #80
maxencecornet wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will !

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

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by baybal2 »

sharkhacks wrote: post #64

Wondering if it's possible to use GPU instead of/in addition to CPU and what would be the impact on performance of site.

WebCL/WebGL and stuff is there, but you will have to go through supporting 20 different "standard compliant" implementations

Re: Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

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Post by uncoder0 »

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

I kinda wanna try it on ours... We have 1.5 million sessions a day with ~50 minutes average session duration.
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