mining is getting big sites like pirate bay and cbs have been caught using users cpu when on there website. i see a future in things like this as long as people are aware of it. sites like freebitco and coinpot made this addition to there website within the last month. instead or in addition to ads i see more and more websites using browser mining. any thoughts on this?
It's an interesting alternative to monetization via advertisements, but like online ads many people will simply block the mining scripts sooner or later. In addition to that with current cryptos you can expect the mining income to gradually diminish since browser-mining is likely to not keep up with the difficulty increase caused by the ever improving hardware in dedicated mining rigs. So to me it doesn't look long-term sustainable, but it could lead to an interesting direction if improved upon.
most of theses sites use coinhive which mines monero and converts to bitcoin. so difficulty is not important unless the price of monero goes up and it gets more adoption. i've tested this out on coin pot. with the bitcoingpu fork we could see more sites mining within the year
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