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I've been pushing this idea for over a year now (as my HN and other social media comment histories can attest), most recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242816
I should have patented this when I first had it.
Waiting for streaming music and video to embed mining in their players...
Or websites pooling together to stabilizing income streams and provide bulk access.
The idea to rent computer time to a publisher in exchange for content can be taken further.
I 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.
I'm mining 50 H/s
https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/xmr?HashingP...
Estimates in 24 hours I will generate 4 cents of revenue.
This 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.
I 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.
I'm only kind of kidding.
I want my cut! I've been pushing this idea for over a year now (as my HN and other social media comment histories can attest), most recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242816 I should have patented this when I first had it. Waiting for streaming music and video to embed mining in their players... Or websites pooling together to stabilizing income streams and provide bulk access. The idea to rent computer…
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Why do I keep seeing this everywhere on the internet? There's no technical reason not to mine bitcoin on CPU.
Because even when you're not paying for electricity, there's much more profitable coins to mine.