What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?
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#2CPU mines Monero not Bitcoin.
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#3Anyone know the cost of the mining rig in comparison to the cost of power for running the mining rig? Seems like it would be easier for Salon to just buy their own mining rig but if the energy demands are extreme I can see why they would want to offload this to their readers. Seems convoluted but hey this is the internet.
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#4Wow! Oddly I think this is totally acceptable but will eventually go way off the rails with abuse and ruin everything.
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#5This is everything I wanted from micropayments. Please, take my money rather than forcibly taking my attention and shoving garbage through my brain. Too bad it has to waste electricity, but at least it's not abusing my poor, finite, distractible, distortable brain. It's not precious to anyone else, but it's precious to me.
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#6I recall we have once discussed this kind of payment for articles, but back-of-the-envelope calculation showed it would take ~170 hrs to mine one cent.
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#7CPU mines Monero not Bitcoin.
Why do I keep seeing this everywhere on the internet? There's no technical reason not to mine bitcoin on CPU.
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#8A decent first effort at transparency, but there's one very obvious question missing from the FAQ:
"Will my electricity bill go up or my laptop battery drain faster when I am participating?"
Can't help but think they omitted this on purpose.
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#9CPU mines Monero not Bitcoin.
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#10CPU mines Monero not Bitcoin.
Why do I keep seeing this everywhere on the internet? There's no technical reason not to mine bitcoin on CPU.
Most of the bitcoin network’s mining power is tied up in ASICs right now, and the difficulty has gone up to keep the block rate constant. A CPU just can’t keep up. There was a time when GPUs could, but now they can’t either.
It’s technically possible, I mean nothing is stopping you from running mining code on your machine right now, but you would have little to no return on your electricity investment. Monero makes more sense.
To put this in perspective, a modern desktop CPU will do anywhere from 10 to 20 megahashes per second. A single ASIC will do 4 terahashes and up. The single ASIC is getting so many more bites at the pie that you would literally never mine a single block. Every single simultaneous Salon user could leave their browser open and the ASIC would out-hash their combined compute power in the blink of an eye. The developer time they’re spending on implementing this scheme would be better allocated by buying ASICs themselves!