Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tracking by ads?
CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
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Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
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Certainly it's possible for the script author to throttle. Not so much for the web site visitor.
I hope it's just a matter of time before browsers start to throttle sites... Or maybe search rankings will be affected by CPU usage, and bandwidth.
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Which coin is worth mining on a CPU at all?
Monero? Existing botnets earn $50,000/day mining on people's computers at night while finding ways to spread to additional ones. A single computer earns pennies, a couple hundred thousand earn way more.
Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
#44Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tracking by ads?
Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
#45Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tracking by ads?
Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
#46Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tracking by ads?
Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
#47Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tracking by ads?
Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
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Mining in Javascript will get you less than the infrastructure costs to provide the videos, let alone replacing ad revenue.
Not if it's free and distributed worldwide. 99% of people don't even know what these coins are, regardless of what happens in the background when a computer requests content on a server. I see it alongside ads.
Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which coin is worth mining on a CPU at all?
Monero? Existing botnets earn $50,000/day mining on people's computers at night while finding ways to spread to additional ones. A single computer earns pennies, a couple hundred thousand earn way more.
Re: CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
#50Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tracking by ads?
You pay us in electricity draw we didn't tell you about is a good business model?