freebitco.in "Browser Mining" - is it worth it?

[sweetdesirez]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

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[mocacinno]

If it's really BTC mining, i wouldn't bother.... Chance of your pc overheating would be a lot bigger than chance of making enough BTC to withdraw, ever.

I found this old thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.msg130903#msg130903

I can't quote the post, since the thread is locked, but SoreGums gave following hashrates:

Chrome13-canary: ~15.2k/s
FF4: ~6.4k/s
Safari5: ~6.2k/s
IE9: ~1.6k/s

plugging those numbers into coinwarz:
coinwarz link

0 sat/year...

So, they're either not really mining in the background, and just use this miner as an excuse to make you stay on their page and watch their ads, or they're doing something completely different using your computer and pay you in BTC (like mining monero, or they're doing something useless that will break your pc without any profit.

[TheQuin]

There's no danger of doing any damage to your computer. Also, you can set the % low so that you don't stress out the CPU and you can continue to use the PC at the same time. As to whether it's worth it financially, we don't really know yet as Wetsuit hasn't finalised the mining reward. This will happen after testing is complete and it has been rolled out to the whole userbase. Then we can work out if the rewards cover the cost of electricity.

I really don't think it is mining BTC directly, I assume it's mining XMR and that's being traded for BTC.

[BigBadBitBaron]

Tried it out for about 3 hours yesterday.

Received 11 satoshi...

worth it  

That would be a big NO from me 

[TheQuin]

Tried it out for about 3 hours yesterday.

Received 11 satoshi...

worth it  

That would be a big NO from me 

What hardware were you mining on?
I just did the maths on my old i5-3750K.

Set at 20% in the background for the last 4 hours averaged 20.85 sat/hr based on 10c KW/hr electricity and $4000 BTC.
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power so that's $0.00085 to make $0.000834 of BTC. So just about break-even at the moment, could be worth it if BTC goes up or they increase the rewards like they say.

[buwaytress]

I was just asking this question, seeing moonbitcoin and piratebay have offered this option. I wonder if it's any coincidence two of the oldest faucet sites started offering it today? And thanks to mocacinno for his usual helpful links. I was looking into these options myself. It definitely doesn't seem worth it for BTC. CPU mining hasn't been profitable for a very long time. But Monero even gets some amount on my old laptop, so I believe you're right. It's probably Monero mining.

[BrewMaster]

did they already stop doing this? or is it special for certain users only?
i just checked the website and there is no "mining" option on top:

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What hardware were you mining on?
I just did the maths on my old i5-3750K.

Set at 20% in the background for the last 4 hours averaged 20.85 sat/hr based on 10c KW/hr electricity and $4000 BTC.
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power so that's $0.00085 to make $0.000834 of BTC. So just about break-even at the moment, could be worth it if BTC goes up or they increase the rewards like they say.

it still doesn't seem to be worth it to be honest!
and i feel like they are getting shady a little. first with all the lotteries and rewards and then with the profit on your deposit then calling themselves a "wallet" and now this!

[TheQuin]

did they already stop doing this? or is it special for certain users only?
i just checked the website and there is no "mining" option on top:

...
What hardware were you mining on?
I just did the maths on my old i5-3750K.

Set at 20% in the background for the last 4 hours averaged 20.85 sat/hr based on 10c KW/hr electricity and $4000 BTC.
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power so that's $0.00085 to make $0.000834 of BTC. So just about break-even at the moment, could be worth it if BTC goes up or they increase the rewards like they say.

it still doesn't seem to be worth it to be honest!
and i feel like they are getting shady a little. first with all the lotteries and rewards and then with the profit on your deposit then calling themselves a "wallet" and now this!

Yeah all that profit and rewards, well shady obvs.

If you have something a bit more modern and efficient than my old i5 it probably is profitable. My PC is on all day anyway why not leave a browser tab digging a few more satoshis to a site I use anyway?

[maeusi]

Awesome. Freebitco.in seems always good for a nice surprise. Will try that out with my mobile device. Maybe I will get a few shares confirmed. Many thanks to OP for sharing.

[lite]

It's not worth it to mine using cpu(even if one's mining monero).  if you however have gpu(s) and cheap electricity then making good amount of money is possible.
it's nice to see freebitcoin making new ways for the users to earn btc, but this browser mining isn't useful.

[illusioNiZt]

Just checked this feature out the moment I clicked start mining CPU usage was 100% when I set it on 80% on website, I closed it right away my processor is potato and I am sure it won't be worth it for me even if I keep it on for hours looks interesting though, will this feature work on mobile phone browser as well?

[panjul07]

Awesome. Freebitco.in seems always good for a nice surprise. Will try that out with my mobile device. Maybe I will get a few shares confirmed. Many thanks to OP for sharing.

Do you really want to try this? Someone has shared his experience already, didn't you notice it? It will not worth to try, you may break your mobile phone because of overheat. I'm sure if you know the calculation then you will not try to risk your device for nothing.

[swogerino]

If it's really BTC mining, i wouldn't bother.... Chance of your pc overheating would be a lot bigger than chance of making enough BTC to withdraw, ever.

I found this old thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.msg130903#msg130903

I can't quote the post, since the thread is locked, but SoreGums gave following hashrates:

Chrome13-canary: ~15.2k/s
FF4: ~6.4k/s
Safari5: ~6.2k/s
IE9: ~1.6k/s

plugging those numbers into coinwarz:
coinwarz link

0 sat/year...

So, they're either not really mining in the background, and just use this miner as an excuse to make you stay on their page and watch their ads, or they're doing something completely different using your computer and pay you in BTC (like mining monero, or they're doing something useless that will break your pc without any profit.

I think they are mining Monero with our CPU power, this has been done without telling users , abusively from Thepiratabay which shut down a few weeks ago. Many users reported a certain website miner and activity of CPU at 100% and after some time were found that they were using users PC-s to mine Monero.

[maeusi]

Awesome. Freebitco.in seems always good for a nice surprise. Will try that out with my mobile device. Maybe I will get a few shares confirmed. Many thanks to OP for sharing.

Do you really want to try this? Someone has shared his experience already, didn't you notice it? It will not worth to try, you may break your mobile phone because of overheat. I'm sure if you know the calculation then you will not try to risk your device for nothing.

No, didn't notice that Thanks for warning. Thaught, it would work like the minergate app. Just wanted to try out for fun, not expecting profit results.

[amacar2]

Mining option seems no more accessible on the site because it might have created lots of negative reviews for freebitco.in they might be trying to do something different but people might actually burn their laptop/pc when trying to get few satoshi from this type of bitcoin mining.

This one seems to be their another failed attempt to look different than another faucet out there.

[sylance]

I think this is a cool idea but not for Bitcoin.  It's a great way to remove adds from sites; have CPU/GPU power plug away at a crypto instead of watching annoying ads.  The only problem will be the sleazy sites that abuse it and pull processing power without notification, or even worse figure out a way to do it even when not on their site.

[mrcash02]

Mining option seems no more accessible on the site because it might have created lots of negative reviews for freebitco.in they might be trying to do something different but people might actually burn their laptop/pc when trying to get few satoshi from this type of bitcoin mining.

This one seems to be their another failed attempt to look different than another faucet out there.

It's accessible yet, not for everyone as it's an experiment yet for few or some users.

I don't know yet if it worth, maybe for who has powerful machines it can be interesting, but for who has cheap laptops it won't be profitable, it won't pay even the electricity you are spending. Anyway if you want to check when the time comes for all, just set low CPU usage to prevent damage to your laptop.

[bapparabi]

but not sure if you get accurate amount of hash and profit form cpu mining as may be they use same to mine somewhere else and make more profit .. if someone have done any income can share there sceenshot

[abhinav_thakur01]

My hashrate is showing around 1-2 H/s . Hashes solved increasing but is the total mining income updated per hour ?

[TheQuin]

Mining option seems no more accessible on the site because it might have created lots of negative reviews for freebitco.in they might be trying to do something different but people might actually burn their laptop/pc when trying to get few satoshi from this type of bitcoin mining.

This one seems to be their another failed attempt to look different than another faucet out there.

It's accessible yet, not for everyone as it's an experiment yet for few or some users.

I don't know yet if it worth, maybe for who has powerful machines it can be interesting, but for who has cheap laptops it won't be profitable, it won't pay even the electricity you are spending. Anyway if you want to check when the time comes for all, just set low CPU usage to prevent damage to your laptop.

You're correct that this is just in beta testing and still being rolled out to more users, most certainly not a failed experiment. There is a lot of nonsense being posted about this. You can turn the % CPU used up and down in increments of 10% so there is no reason to overheat anything.
I think you're right about cheap laptops, but with a modern desktop, it looks quite promising. I'm using an old i5 processor at 20% in the background and I've calculated that it's running at about breakeven so if you have something newer and more efficient than that it should be worth doing.

[zahra4572]

Do this even worth trying? Mining Lottery will be much more better to introduce.

[Muzika]

did they already stop doing this? or is it special for certain users only?
i just checked the website and there is no "mining" option on top:

...
What hardware were you mining on?
I just did the maths on my old i5-3750K.

Set at 20% in the background for the last 4 hours averaged 20.85 sat/hr based on 10c KW/hr electricity and $4000 BTC.
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power so that's $0.00085 to make $0.000834 of BTC. So just about break-even at the moment, could be worth it if BTC goes up or they increase the rewards like they say.

it still doesn't seem to be worth it to be honest!
and i feel like they are getting shady a little. first with all the lotteries and rewards and then with the profit on your deposit then calling themselves a "wallet" and now this!

the mining option is still in BETA so not all users have that mining option in their tabs. luckily i am one of the chosen ones so have that option now in my account but still i didn't tried it yet, maybe later and i will give my feedback here

[Catmony]

Do this even worth trying? Mining Lottery will be much more better to introduce.

No this is not worth to try as we all know mining with CPU can only be a dream, even a specific mining hardwares like antminer S9 can't mine significant amount of bitcoin these days due to very high mining difficulty. Mining with personal computer with CPU sound like a joke...

I will not burn my lappy with this one.

[mocacinno]

Since people were saying this is not some kind of experiment, and a lot of nonsense was being posted, even claimed they could break even... I decided to digg a little bit deeper.

I have to admit, i was a bit lazy, so i used this post to get the formula daily revenue:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=726962.msg8221939#msg8221939

Daily revenue = H x 25 x 600 x 65535 / 2⁴⁸ / D x 6 x 24

Offcourse, the block reward dropped to 12.5, so we have to exchange 25 to 12.5 in the above formula

So, the revenue = the hashrate (H/s) * 491512500  / 281474976710656 / Difficulty * 144
If we use this formula to calculate the dayly revenue of an antminer S9:
1.4e+13 * 491512500 / 281474976710656 / 1103400932964* 144 = 0.00319045009

coinwarz is a pretty reliable mining calculator used by lot of people, at this moment, it reports a dayly revenue of 0.00319050. I think this proves the formula is relatively correct.

abhinav_thakur01 reported a hashrate of 1-2 H/s

My hashrate is showing around 1-2 H/s . Hashes solved increasing but is the total mining income updated per hour ?

Plug 2 H/s into the above formula:
2 * 491512500 / 281474976710656 / 1103400932964* 144 = 4.56 e-16 = 0.0000000000000005 BTC/day = 0.00000005 satoshi's/day = you'll need to mine over 50.000 years to mine a single satoshi at a speed of 2 hashes per second.

If we re-read TheQuin's statement, and combine it with abhinav_thakur01 speed report, then plug everything into coinwarz with a 10 cent/kwu power cost

--snip--
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power
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link
We see that the net loss of such a mining operation would be ~$7/year, simply because (luckily) the power draw was only 8.5 watt. The net loss is calculated this way: the income of your mining is 0 (nill, nothing, zip) minus the power costs (~$7/year) gives a net loss of ~$7/year.

A re-state my previous theories about freebitco.in browser mining... i'm pretty sure one of these theories (or a combination of these theories) is the correct one:

• OR they're not bitcoin mining like they claim, but mine a coin that is still cpu-only minable, but still pay you in BTC
• OR they're performing some other task in the background... Don't know which one tough
• OR they just use the browser mining as a trick to keep you on their page... They subsidise your account for staying with them 24/7, watching adds

And as a final wacko theory i wanted to add this link: http://www.csl.mete.metu.edu.tr/Electromigration/emig.htm
It's an interesting read for everybody that claims there is no harm at running your cpu at 100% for long times (or overclocking your cpu).
I know it's not completely on-topic,  but it's still interesting nonetheless

[TheQuin]

If we re-read TheQuin's statement, and combine it with abhinav_thakur01 speed report, then plug everything into coinwarz with a 10 cent/kwu power cost

--snip--
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power
--snip--

link
We see that the net loss of such a mining operation would be ~$7/year, simply because (luckily) the power draw was only 8.5 watt. The net loss is calculated this way: the income of your mining is 0 (nill, nothing, zip) minus the power costs (~$7/year) gives a net loss of ~$7/year.

A re-state my previous theories about freebitco.in browser mining... i'm pretty sure one of these theories (or a combination of these theories) is the correct one:

• OR they're not bitcoin mining like they claim, but mine a coin that is still cpu-only minable, but still pay you in BTC
• OR they're performing some other task in the background... Don't know which one tough
• OR they just use the browser mining as a trick to keep you on their page... They subsidise your account for staying with them 24/7, watching adds

Where did they claim to be mining BTC? That would be crazy and wasn't even worth your time running the numbers on. As I stated at the start they're most likely is mining XMR and trading it for BTC. I'm sure they'll confirm in good time.

As for the calculations, my ones are based on actual result whereas yours is based on mining BTC which is not what is happening. I stand by making breakeven on my first day of testing with an old i5. Of course, if you want to come up with some conspiracy theories that something more sinister than mining XMR is going on then I'll leave you to enjoy yourself.

[mocacinno]

Where did they claim to be mining BTC?
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I don't belong to the trial group, so i cannot check by myself, however, the op posted following image in his very first post:

It clearly states: "use your browser to passively mine bitcoin", it's right in the first, bold, line in the screenshot.

--snip--

I'm sorry i must have missed the part where you said it was probably XMR... I won't re-do the calculations to see if XMR mining would be profitable. I was just digging into the info i found in this thread and must have missed your initial conclusion.

[TheQuin]

I don't belong to the trial group, so i cannot check by myself, however, the op posted following image in his very first post:

It clearly states: "use your browser to passively mine bitcoin", it's right in the first, bold, line in the screenshot.

~snip~
 
I'm sorry i must have missed the part where you said it was probably XMR... I won't re-do the calculations to see if XMR mining would be profitable. I was just digging into the info i found in this thread and must have missed your initial conclusion.

OK, I agree that statement is a bit misleading. We both know that CPU mining BTC directly would be insane in 2017, it really has to be mining something else and XMR is the most likely candidate. I guess that the majority of their userbase isn't really going to have a clue what they are on about if they put that info on the site.

Edit:
Coinwarz numbers on XMR 13H/s @ 8.5w gives $1.05 profit anually.

[pawanjain]

I did check out my profile on freebitco.in and found out that the experimental mining was not available for me. The above comments conclude that even if we try the experimental mining of freebitco.in it would not be a good option to stick to that for long. The rewards are obviously quite less for the amount of time our PC stays active. I know that it depends on the CPU power and processor on how much rewards we get but still it is less for the amount of time we spend on it.

[magneto]

Unless you have free or close to free electricity, have the equipment to do it, you don't mind your computer overheating all the time and possibly shortening your CPU's lifespan with close to no reward then sure, go ahead and do it.

Trust me, in the end you won't even make enough to cover transaction fees for a single bitcoin transaction.

Not worth it at all and i would assume that freebitco.in takes some commission as well. If you had the right equipment, free electricity, and a whole farm of computers then i think joining a pool with no fees or little fees would make the most sense.

[timerland]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

This is not any kind of income. You are wasting your money on electricity and potentially reducing your productivity from the noise and lag generated by the mining activity. I'm not even sure why freebitco.in decided to implement this, it probably will generate them a ridiculously amount of profit as well from the commissions.

It is not worth it at all if you have no cheap electricity and new miners capable of calculating many GH/s or even TH/s per second.

And if you do why the hell would you mine for freebitco.in? Either solo mine or join a pool as magneto said!

[btcjocan]

Mining option seems no more accessible on the site because it might have created lots of negative reviews for freebitco.in they might be trying to do something different but people might actually burn their laptop/pc when trying to get few satoshi from this type of bitcoin mining.

This one seems to be their another failed attempt to look different than another faucet out there.

It's accessible yet, not for everyone as it's an experiment yet for few or some users.

I don't know yet if it worth, maybe for who has powerful machines it can be interesting, but for who has cheap laptops it won't be profitable, it won't pay even the electricity you are spending. Anyway if you want to check when the time comes for all, just set low CPU usage to prevent damage to your laptop.

You're correct that this is just in beta testing and still being rolled out to more users, most certainly not a failed experiment. There is a lot of nonsense being posted about this. You can turn the % CPU used up and down in increments of 10% so there is no reason to overheat anything.
I think you're right about cheap laptops, but with a modern desktop, it looks quite promising. I'm using an old i5 processor at 20% in the background and I've calculated that it's running at about breakeven so if you have something newer and more efficient than that it should be worth doing.

I think that's explained well and looking unto the promising effect of the mining cpu, maybe that's not yet performing for a long time. The computer hardware might be overworking for several hours doing the mining operations. For me it still not worth it for now since, using personal computers in mining doesn't conform to the actual performances of dedicated mining gpu's.

[endlasuresh]

Do this even worth trying? Mining Lottery will be much more better to introduce.

No, that doesn't worth to you at all and you will be paying huge electricity bill for mining also you need high GPU PC that handle for mining.

[TheQuin]

Do this even worth trying? Mining Lottery will be much more better to introduce.

No, that doesn't worth to you at all and you will be paying huge electricity bill for mining also you need high GPU PC that handle for mining.

Maybe if you had read the thread before posting you wouldn't have been so wrong.

What you need to mine with depends on the coin you are mining. A GPU is not the only thing you can profitably mine with. This looks like it is mining XMR which is suited to CPU mining. As I posted earlier I have actually tested the service, with the right CPU you could make a profit. It's best if you just leave a browser tab at a low % usage in the background while you're using the PC for something else then you are only paying for the extra CPU usage which is minimal.

[Qunenin]

Of course it's not worth it. Do you actually think that sitting there and letting the browser run consuming your electricity and your computer is going to ever pay off for you? This is something that may have two or three years ago produced a small effect but it is something that is never going to earn you good. Time is to move on something which is more productive and profitable.

[TheQuin]

My hashrate is showing around 1-2 H/s . Hashes solved increasing but is the total mining income updated per hour ?

It updates about every 5 minutes. I'm getting ~20 sats/hr at 13H/s so you made need to wait a bit longer.

[bapparabi]

its complete not worth as i can see when i sue my cpu to other direct mining pool i get more hash rate then in freebitco .may be they using this hash to mining in differ pool get more rate and provide less to us as i can see there rate .

So best will be mine direct to good pool or if you need more hash mine in new pool with less hash so you get better share and profit

[Pursuer]

I checked it out and I have to say things like this are never worth the effort and the risk. you are risking over heating and killing your hardware after all. and at the very least you will shorten the life of your hardware while getting paid a very small amount which is negligible.

if you want to mine you have to do it more seriously, with real equipment (an ASIC miner or some GPU rigs) and with cheap electricity. all the rest of the methods will never be worth the damage.

[Carmen01]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

its not worth it for my friends experience in telegram he use that but its like coinpot you can really earn,not big and total waste of time,try bonus bitcoin,moonbitcoin,moondoge,moonlitoshi its like that,see is to believe so try it

[squatter]

I checked it out and I have to say things like this are never worth the effort and the risk. you are risking over heating and killing your hardware after all. and at the very least you will shorten the life of your hardware while getting paid a very small amount which is negligible.

if you want to mine you have to do it more seriously, with real equipment (an ASIC miner or some GPU rigs) and with cheap electricity. all the rest of the methods will never be worth the damage.

I don't really think you'll overheat or kill your hardware with in-browser mining. It's limited to specifications allocated to your browser, so it might slow down performance but that's it. The flip side is that you're likely to make precisely nothing with this if they are actually using your hash rate to mine Bitcoin. If you manage to get anything out of this, my guess is that they are mining Monero. Or maybe they are just using you for ad revenue and paying out like a faucet.

[TheQuin]

I don't really think you'll overheat or kill your hardware with in-browser mining. It's limited to specifications allocated to your browser, so it might slow down performance but that's it. The flip side is that you're likely to make precisely nothing with this if they are actually using your hash rate to mine Bitcoin. If you manage to get anything out of this, my guess is that they are mining Monero. Or maybe they are just using you for ad revenue and paying out like a faucet.

You're right there is no danger overheating. There's even a control slider so you can select the % of CPU to use. I'm pretty sure it is mining Monero, from the payout rate to H/s, it fits. I've done some testing and calculated that if you're using the PC anyway then using a little bit of CPU to mine in the background is actually profitable on most modern hardware.

[G.Seed]

I was curious so I tried it with moonbitcoin yesterday and it installed a "bitcoin miner" in the "cache" directory of my browser. It has been identified as a riskware by my anti-virus so I deleted it.

I am a chosen one by freebitco.in but I won't activate mining, I think it is useless for the moment.

[Chris314]

Trying freebitco.in mining, gives me around 25 sat an hour with a PC. Interesting only on a computer/device you don't pay energy for.
No risk of overheating btw, CPU of modern devices slows himself when getting too hot.

[jonsi]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?
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To put it in a way that's easy to understand: To mine bitcoin with your browser (aka: with your CPU) it's like tring to empty an ocean with a spoon. Now think about how much this is worth and you have your answer if you should do it or not. This is beside the additional risk of instaling some sort of malware.

Nobody can tell you what to do, but comparing the risk (high risk) and the rewards (practically 0) I'm shure you will make the right decision.

[Golftech]

Trying freebitco.in mining, gives me around 25 sat an hour with a PC. Interesting only on a computer/device you don't pay energy for.
No risk of overheating btw, CPU of modern devices slows himself when getting too hot.

That's cool using someone computers and make sure that you are not going to pay the rent I'm thinking that this trial pace will give us updates the rewards are low and the risk that we are taking is not worthy, maybe the owner will give some more rewards so people who play their will also use the mining service for additional earnings.

[dapollonsky]

This isn't anything new, there's other services that provide similar browser mining functionality like Coin-Hive.

[Slark]

This one seems to be their another failed attempt to look different than another faucet out there.

It is certain that freebitco.in is creating other opportunities to earn bitcoin and grab people's attention.
They have to do this because faucets are kinda pointless nowadays. So this new premise 'mine bitcoin in your browser and earn BTC' is a fat big lie.
This is nothing but pushing the concept of a faucet to another level. You are earning faucet level of income while giving them your computing power? No thank you.

[buwaytress]

This one seems to be their another failed attempt to look different than another faucet out there.

It is certain that freebitco.in is creating other opportunities to earn bitcoin and grab people's attention.
They have to do this because faucets are kinda pointless nowadays. So this new premise 'mine bitcoin in your browser and earn BTC' is a fat big lie.
This is nothing but pushing the concept of a faucet to another level. You are earning faucet level of income while giving them your computing power? No thank you.

I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing something like this - if you're open and transparent about it, as the faucets doing this seem to be. It's no different from telling you to unblock ads so you can view them and get part of their ad revenue back as faucet earnings. What I'm very interested in though, is if this is actually a viable way to improve revenue. You know sites like wikipedia that keep asking for donations? How about asking readers to "mine" for them while reading the page? It's a small sacrifice for free content.

[Kprawn]

The moment I clicked on the mining tab at the top, the antivirus software flagged this page as a malicious software. I have

been with them for years and they have brought constant innovation regularly, but I will skip this new feature for now. Yes,

you might get some Satoshi's from this, but the extra load on your CPU/GPU will offset the gain. < extra electricity burned > 

[albertorma]

I'm pretty sure it's mining monero. This browser miner seems very usable and it can be used in multiple devices. However, in my humble opinion, this is not worth. If you want to mine, you should setup a perfectly optimized device, which is far away from a simple browser miner.

Besides Freebitco.in isn't an ONG. They will get some %, which will make mining even less worth.

[squatter]

Trying freebitco.in mining, gives me around 25 sat an hour with a PC. Interesting only on a computer/device you don't pay energy for.
No risk of overheating btw, CPU of modern devices slows himself when getting too hot.

Yeah, this is more of a novelty than anything else. If you run the numbers, you could net ~ 0.00018 BTC per month per PC with this. My electricity is actually paid by the owner, so I guess I could net 0.00018 BTC in profit per month, but I'm not sure it's worth keeping the PC on with browser running 24/7. Clearly, though, this could be very profitable if one were running a botnet. The Pirate Bay might have been onto something!

[TryNinja]

If you are really going to invest some time in this - which I wouldn't recommend -, it's better if you just go mine directly from the provider, which is CoinHive (the same used by ThePirateBay and FreeBitcoin) instead of using FreeBitcoin, which will take a part of your profits for themselves.

Btw, they are mining Monero. If you want to read the details, check the CoinHive website[1].

[1] https://coin-hive.com/

[jtipt]

Trying freebitco.in mining, gives me around 25 sat an hour with a PC. Interesting only on a computer/device you don't pay energy for.
No risk of overheating btw, CPU of modern devices slows himself when getting too hot.

Yeah, this is more of a novelty than anything else. If you run the numbers, you could net ~ 0.00018 BTC per month per PC with this. My electricity is actually paid by the owner, so I guess I could net 0.00018 BTC in profit per month, but I'm not sure it's worth keeping the PC on with browser running 24/7. Clearly, though, this could be very profitable if one were running a botnet. The Pirate Bay might have been onto something!

Yeah it's actually waste of time and not at all profitable, in comparison to this even the faucet would get you more profit. And yes the CPU won't overheat a lot but extended usage of cpu at 100% will damage it considerably, you won't notice it damage now but it would surely reduce its lifetime.

[Rahar02]

Tried it out for about 3 hours yesterday.

Received 11 satoshi...

worth it  

That would be a big NO from me 

Indeed, the idea of mining using laptop/PC is not worth for sure.
Mining require super computer and powerful gpu to build mining rig.
I'm not sure what intention they have to offer browser mining which will generate nothing or damage your computer.
3 hours and 11 satoshi isn't worth at all, even you have to pay more for electricity
Anyway, this is a good information for everyone.

[cafucafucafu]

If you are really going to invest some time in this - which I wouldn't recommend -, it's better if you just go mine directly from the provider, which is CoinHive (the same used by ThePirateBay and FreeBitcoin) instead of using FreeBitcoin, which will take a part of your profits for themselves.

Btw, they are mining Monero. If you want to read the details, check the CoinHive website[1].

[1] https://coin-hive.com/

The link is actually not working at the moment. Here's their GitHub repository if anyone needs it: https://github.com/cazala/coin-hive

Basically freebitco.in is taking an existing product anyone can access and taking a share from the profits you generate. Not only is it not worth it to mine if you have no special setup in the first place, why would you give freebitco.in a cut for doing nothing?

You could literally either use the coinhive miner or download the monero GUI and start mining. Else, join a pool.

[wetsuit]

Just to clarify some points that have been made here:

1). Your browser is mining monero and we are auto-converting it into bitcoin at the current prices
2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.
3). The mining is completely optional, we are not running the miner automatically or forcing anyone to use it. If you feel it is profitable for you, then use it. If not, then don't.

If there is enough interest, I might try to reverse-engineer the miner so that we can keep 100% of the revenue and share all of it with the users. We do not expect to make any profit for this, it's only an additional revenue stream for faucet users.

[TryNinja]

2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.

If that's the case, props on you for making that choice and not trying to profit more at the expense of your users.

And in this case, I would recommend the "low-end user" to use Freebitcoin instead of Coin-hive, since their minimum for withdraws is 0.0003 BTC or ~0.012 XMR, while Coin-hive requires you to mine at least 0.5 XMR or ~0.012 BTC - which may take forever if you are running the miner with a bad PC.

[moopser]

Just tried it out.
~3 hours +73 satoshi.
Used it on a working laptop (i5 4x2.3Ghz). Settings were: 2 threads and 50% and 4 threads 100% (1.5h per each).

While was on 50% I had on youtube, Hearthstone game and Bitstamp trading view window, not considering 3 xls working windows, outlook and ie with some working pages.
Imo, this "mining" can be easily used in background if:
1. you are freebitcoin faucet user
2. you are not overloading your pc/lap with it

Free satoshi for just keeping one browser window on (even on minimum "mining" settings) are still free satoshi. So why not?

[richardsNY]

Just tried it out.
~3 hours +73 satoshi.
Used it on a working laptop (i5 4x2.3Ghz). Settings were: 2 threads and 50% and 4 threads 100% (1.5h per each).

While was on 50% I had on youtube, Hearthstone game and Bitstamp trading view window, not considering 3 xls working windows, outlook and ie with some working pages.
Imo, this "mining" can be easily used in background if:
1. you are freebitcoin faucet user
2. you are not overloading your pc/lap with it

Free satoshi for just keeping one browser window on (even on minimum "mining" settings) are still free satoshi. So why not?

If you look at your 73 satoshi reward for around 3 hours worth of mining, then it can be seen as a pure waste of time and resources. If anyone is that desperate to make a few dust particles, then just farm your way through any faucet you can find -- there are several apps that you can install that will allow you to earn like 1000 satoshi per hour in total. It's still peanuts and not worth the time you put into it, but at least its far more 'profitable' than what you are doing with your browser. It's just a lame way for people to earn something while they feel it is completely effortlessly....

[pinoyden]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

i think its worth it, only if your running it on a pc with higher specs because its mining and mining usually works depending on your cpu/gpu and mining on browser is not really profitable unless your running it on multiple pc's with multiple tabs open and leave it on for quite some time. id also tried this new feauture of freebitco on my phone which has quadcore procesor and i can see it that its actually mining and hashes are moving but it takes a long time to earn  some btc even if im leaving my phone idle for hours.

[magneto]

Just to clarify some points that have been made here:

1). Your browser is mining monero and we are auto-converting it into bitcoin at the current prices
2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.
3). The mining is completely optional, we are not running the miner automatically or forcing anyone to use it. If you feel it is profitable for you, then use it. If not, then don't.

If there is enough interest, I might try to reverse-engineer the miner so that we can keep 100% of the revenue and share all of it with the users. We do not expect to make any profit for this, it's only an additional revenue stream for faucet users.

Nice of you to give back 100% of the revenue to the actual users. This makes more sense to use you guys for the convenience, rather than downloading the actual monero GUI or coinhive yourself.

However, have you considered the fact that it is likely not going to get much hash rate in total to even pay for the monero transaction fees considering most people don't have special rigs(unless you pay with low fees)?

I'd be interested to see a similar web miner except for dogecoin, which has a very low tx fee.

[Skarner21]

I heard this on facebook group and i think there is someone are offering this browser mining not only in freebitco.in i think there are official site that you can earn without losing percentage you mined and you can mine 100% this will be good also to promote it in other people with your own website and you can earn commission from people who mine from your website.  I heard that https://coin-hive.com/ can give you chance to use their script to add it in your website and its a good business and you can offer it too to your friends..
Browser mining will be still relay in your computer specs so it will be worth if you computer had good specs. and i think this browser mining or javascript mining can be only mine with XMR altcoin  and supported only for cpu mining..

[moopser]

Just tried it out.
~3 hours +73 satoshi.
Used it on a working laptop (i5 4x2.3Ghz). Settings were: 2 threads and 50% and 4 threads 100% (1.5h per each).

While was on 50% I had on youtube, Hearthstone game and Bitstamp trading view window, not considering 3 xls working windows, outlook and ie with some working pages.
Imo, this "mining" can be easily used in background if:
1. you are freebitcoin faucet user
2. you are not overloading your pc/lap with it

Free satoshi for just keeping one browser window on (even on minimum "mining" settings) are still free satoshi. So why not?

If you look at your 73 satoshi reward for around 3 hours worth of mining, then it can be seen as a pure waste of time and resources. If anyone is that desperate to make a few dust particles, then just farm your way through any faucet you can find -- there are several apps that you can install that will allow you to earn like 1000 satoshi per hour in total. It's still peanuts and not worth the time you put into it, but at least its far more 'profitable' than what you are doing with your browser. It's just a lame way for people to earn something while they feel it is completely effortlessly....

Actually considering that values has not live updating - I saw 214 satoshi after 5 minutes of turning this option on again. So not 73, but it does not really matter.

Regular faucets has tons of ads and annoying captchas. This mining page does not. Turn it on, for lets say 10-25% of you installed power, and go do what you want/need.

I dont want to go deep into discussion for coin hive mining and other pc mining issues - this is completely same shit, fee % slightly differs, but values are low so in short or mid term run it doesnt matter at all.
Same for spending resources. Cmon guys, what resources are you talking about? This is not a farm, this is regular PC that with or without mining works 24/7 or close to it. This is not a problem nowadays to upgrade PC once per year or two. Adding some shitty mining service into background process is waste of resources? You might be joking.
If someone will spend 100% of the only PCs power 24/7 for this shit (considering that it wont be possible to run another processes because of lags) - only in this case this is waste of resources. But I think that no one can be such a fool.

Main point that I wanted to stress, that this browser "mining" provides you with free satoshi/monero for doing nothing, not even spending resources. This is why I pointed some preconditions for it to be useful, that together with your PC turned on 24/7 (with idle and lock, do you maybe know someone who completely turns off PC for a long term in regular life?) gives you free coins.

Yes, value of this coins today is not worth it, but 50k satoshi (or its worth) earned today can turn into 10k usd in 5 years. Who knows.

[xypos]

Just to clarify some points that have been made here:

1). Your browser is mining monero and we are auto-converting it into bitcoin at the current prices
2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.
3). The mining is completely optional, we are not running the miner automatically or forcing anyone to use it. If you feel it is profitable for you, then use it. If not, then don't.

If there is enough interest, I might try to reverse-engineer the miner so that we can keep 100% of the revenue and share all of it with the users. We do not expect to make any profit for this, it's only an additional revenue stream for faucet users.

Do users pay the transactions fees or do you guys cover that too?

So essentially if you got it right, you guys aren't actually making anything off this and actually potentially losing out on profit here, since there are no fees charged right? So this is just something that you guys do to help out newbies get some dust?

I mean, in theory it's great. But it's not worth anyone's time. They'll get more from claiming from your faucet and this only makes newbies think that mining is profitable with normal equipment when they are just losing so much from electricity bills.

[Tesorex]

Botnet, if more than 5000 users run the miner at the same time and if they know how to point all the small hashing powers to accumulate them into one giant CPU miner then it is profitable for everyone.

[ss890]

That's a joke guys, how can one make profit from the browser mining? By the way the browser is just way of attracting you on the site and they are just using it to enter into your computer. For a software miner, the connection to the pool would be directly through the software. In this case browser must be linking the CPU cores to pool for solving the math and all the stuff we know about it.


But as far as I know the CPU won't be powerful enough to solve the blocks or any portion of it to give us pretty good reward from it. The rate of earning will never catch up the break even and as everyone here is talented enough to know that this will burn the CPU in a day or two. Better need to work out the math.

[Yuuto]

That's a joke guys, how can one make profit from the browser mining? By the way the browser is just way of attracting you on the site and they are just using it to enter into your computer. For a software miner, the connection to the pool would be directly through the software. In this case browser must be linking the CPU cores to pool for solving the math and all the stuff we know about it.


But as far as I know the CPU won't be powerful enough to solve the blocks or any portion of it to give us pretty good reward from it. The rate of earning will never catch up the break even and as everyone here is talented enough to know that this will burn the CPU in a day or two. Better need to work out the math.

That part i highlighted is incorrect. I'm sure that freebitco.in is not trying to harm anyone's computer in any way but is rather just providing an option for new users to get some satoshis to play around with on their site.

However, i agree with all your other points.

This browser mining is not going to even make you a dollar a week if you just have an average computer. It's not worth your time, and it'll probably slow down and overheat your computer.

[Kena Banned]

Freebitco is a faucet that makes you get bitcoin for free. you are just waiting to claim your bitcoin. so in widraw limit you can take bitcoin. taoi for me it is very tiring because it takes a long time to widraw. the faucet will not damage your pc. it just works online.

[mocacinno]

Freebitco is a faucet that makes you get bitcoin for free. you are just waiting to claim your bitcoin. so in widraw limit you can take bitcoin. taoi for me it is very tiring because it takes a long time to widraw. the faucet will not damage your pc. it just works online.

Did you read any of the previous 4 pages? The discussion is about a new feature that was added to a trial group of freebitco.in users. This new feature allows the users inside the trial to use a javascript??? in-browser monero miner.

btw, offtopic, but does your username suggest your main account was banned, or is your username just a practical joke reffering to ban evasion?

[moopser]

Upd from my side. Maybe someone will consider it as useful.

i5-5300 (hp folio 1040)
~36 hours of browser mining turned on.
995 satoshi on the screen (considering that value refreshes once per hour i assume 1000+), what gives ~28 satoshi per hour in average.
Comparing to freebitcoins faucet amount is almost twice lower.

While idle - 100% and 4 threads, while working - changing value to 50%.

Lap is not overheating and 50% doesnt make any lags.
This type of "mining" can serve only as a timely bonus and deserves to be turned on from time to time (mostly while idle).

[Razor33]

My Kaspersky Internet Security is blocking a download from the mining page saying is a Trojan
And is doing the same on moon bitcoin...

Download blocked

https://static6.freebitco.in/min/coinhive.1506271796.js
Object: name: HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic
Object: https://static6.freebitco.in/min/coinhive.1506271796.js
Application: Google Chrome
Object type: Trojan program
Time: 9/25/2017 7:56 PM

False positive or... ?

[TryNinja]

My Kaspersky Internet Security is blocking a download from the mining page saying is a Trojan
And is doing the same on moon bitcoin...

Download blocked

https://static6.freebitco.in/min/coinhive.1506271796.js
Object: name: HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic
Object: https://static6.freebitco.in/min/coinhive.1506271796.js
Application: Google Chrome
Object type: Trojan program
Time: 9/25/2017 7:56 PM

False positive or... ?

This script will use your CPU to mine cryptocurrencies. What do you think?

Of course your antivirus will detect this as a malware. But I do not see this as a problem, since this is totally purposeful and expected.

[Razor33]

Yes almost sure is a false positive as well BUT what IF that download is also a virus / Trojan  and not just a browser mining program ? (even if i highly doubt considering the reputation and the time these sites are on)

[liuqi]

My Kaspersky Internet Security is blocking a download from the mining page saying is a Trojan
And is doing the same on moon bitcoin...

Download blocked

https://static6.freebitco.in/min/coinhive.1506271796.js
Object: name: HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic
Object: https://static6.freebitco.in/min/coinhive.1506271796.js
Application: Google Chrome
Object type: Trojan program
Time: 9/25/2017 7:56 PM

False positive or... ?

This script will use your CPU to mine cryptocurrencies. What do you think?

Of course your antivirus will detect this as a malware. But I do not see this as a problem, since this is totally purposeful and expected.

Not only this most of the CPU and GPU mining software are passing malware error until making the antivirus silent else unable to run. Even cgminer patch also pass the same kind of error after we added the wallet address in patch. Claymore patch seems good and it is available in the zip format with the log and history details includes.

[bitcoinmeme]

mining its still working

take a look here

https://mining.freebitco.in/mining.html?userid=7744879&auth=5082d202ea623ec684831227618806a69e4f592e717af8ac46ec5e8f11126470

[bitblaster]

I don't mind borwser mining as long as users are aware of what is happening you their machine. It may not be profitable for bitcoin BTC mining.  But would be fun to mine some altcoins. Specially for people who don't like to run ".exe" files on their machines

[bitcoinmeme]

im at 500h/s and its worth it

take a look at your hashrate here

https://mining.freebitco.in/mining.html?userid=7744879&auth=5082d202ea623ec684831227618806a69e4f592e717af8ac46ec5e8f11126470

[Potato Chips]

That's a joke guys, how can one make profit from the browser mining? By the way the browser is just way of attracting you on the site and they are just using it to enter into your computer. For a software miner, the connection to the pool would be directly through the software. In this case browser must be linking the CPU cores to pool for solving the math and all the stuff we know about it.


But as far as I know the CPU won't be powerful enough to solve the blocks or any portion of it to give us pretty good reward from it. The rate of earning will never catch up the break even and as everyone here is talented enough to know that this will burn the CPU in a day or two. Better need to work out the math.

That part i highlighted is incorrect. I'm sure that freebitco.in is not trying to harm anyone's computer in any way but is rather just providing an option for new users to get some satoshis to play around with on their site.

However, i agree with all your other points.

This browser mining is not going to even make you a dollar a week if you just have an average computer. It's not worth your time, and it'll probably slow down and overheat your computer.

yah as long as you don't install suspicious apps or malware you're good to go. from what i can see this browser mining only need browser and javascript so it can't harm your

pc although mining is a cpu intensive task so expect some downgrade on your pc's/laptop's performance. i also don't think its worth to constantly overheat your device for a

small amount. if you guys really want to do mining there are specifically for mining rigs out there. moreover its kinda suspicious since they won't be getting anything from this,

free service basically.

[elbimbo012]

Hi every one i'm just a newbie here in bitcointalk and freebitco.in site was the first site i earned a very very small amount of satoshi i think it was 52 satoshi per hour and i try also mining in that site by i earned nothing hmmmmnn....

[zikabra]

Do you really need to ask this question in 2017.?
It is probably good for newbies who don't know(yet) how bitcoin mining works.

im at 500h/s and its worth it

take a look at your hashrate here

***

This is your "cpu mining" link, whoever try to mine it will mine bitcoins for you.

[aceptamosbitcoin]

Just to clarify some points that have been made here:

1). Your browser is mining monero and we are auto-converting it into bitcoin at the current prices
2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.
3). The mining is completely optional, we are not running the miner automatically or forcing anyone to use it. If you feel it is profitable for you, then use it. If not, then don't.

If there is enough interest, I might try to reverse-engineer the miner so that we can keep 100% of the revenue and share all of it with the users. We do not expect to make any profit for this, it's only an additional revenue stream for faucet users.

This is one very interesting initiative. Do you collect some stats for actual revenue over 24h period for example?
Few days ago I read about coin named JScoin for browser mining. You may want to take a look.

[christian07]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

you can earn but not worth it because its so small earnings,i think better to play in faucet or keep reading here in bitcointalk forum thats pretty good not like mining in freebitco.in,you can also try to study trading for your earnings here

[bit-emperor]

did they already stop doing this? or is it special for certain users only?
i just checked the website and there is no "mining" option on top:

...
What hardware were you mining on?
I just did the maths on my old i5-3750K.

Set at 20% in the background for the last 4 hours averaged 20.85 sat/hr based on 10c KW/hr electricity and $4000 BTC.
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power so that's $0.00085 to make $0.000834 of BTC. So just about break-even at the moment, could be worth it if BTC goes up or they increase the rewards like they say.

it still doesn't seem to be worth it to be honest!
and i feel like they are getting shady a little. first with all the lotteries and rewards and then with the profit on your deposit then calling themselves a "wallet" and now this!

same like me there is no "mining" option on the website

[Barcode_]

I have seen many freebitco.in users talking about the browser mining function on this site, this function seems to have disappear on the site for now. Honestly speaking, I don't think it is worth the effort to turn on the browser mining as the earnings seems to be very low, but it still serves an additional function for users who wanted to earn more free money from the site.

[mkmdoc]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

you can earn but not worth it because its so small earnings,i think better to play in faucet or keep reading here in bitcointalk forum thats pretty good not like mining in freebitco.in,you can also try to study trading for your earnings here

Yes, I have tried it for many hours but not actually getting more coins. I think through browser activity it will take a lot of time to mature the coins and I think freebitco.in will make more money through our computer hardware and they are paying fewer coins to us.

[TheQuin]

Yes, I have tried it for many hours but not actually getting more coins. I think through browser activity it will take a lot of time to mature the coins and I think freebitco.in will make more money through our computer hardware and they are paying fewer coins to us.

Your hardware might not be suitable, as the testing I've done has shown the returns to be pretty good for CPU mining. It's most suitable for when the PC is on anyway and you're just paying for the extra electricity the CPU is using. Leave it on at a low % when you're working on something else and the extra satoshi just add up. You should have read the thread before saying "freebitco.in will make more money through our computer hardware and they are paying fewer coins to us.". It's simply not true.

Just to clarify some points that have been made here:

1). Your browser is mining monero and we are auto-converting it into bitcoin at the current prices
2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.
3). The mining is completely optional, we are not running the miner automatically or forcing anyone to use it. If you feel it is profitable for you, then use it. If not, then don't.

If there is enough interest, I might try to reverse-engineer the miner so that we can keep 100% of the revenue and share all of it with the users. We do not expect to make any profit for this, it's only an additional revenue stream for faucet users.

[p40ru]

Mining option seems no more accessible on the site because it might have created lots of negative reviews for freebitco.in they might be trying to do something different but people might actually burn their laptop/pc when trying to get few satoshi from this type of bitcoin mining.

This one seems to be their another failed attempt to look different than another faucet out there.

It's accessible yet, not for everyone as it's an experiment yet for few or some users.

I don't know yet if it worth, maybe for who has powerful machines it can be interesting, but for who has cheap laptops it won't be profitable, it won't pay even the electricity you are spending. Anyway if you want to check when the time comes for all, just set low CPU usage to prevent damage to your laptop.

You're correct that this is just in beta testing and still being rolled out to more users, most certainly not a failed experiment. There is a lot of nonsense being posted about this. You can turn the % CPU used up and down in increments of 10% so there is no reason to overheat anything.
I think you're right about cheap laptops, but with a modern desktop, it looks quite promising. I'm using an old i5 processor at 20% in the background and I've calculated that it's running at about breakeven so if you have something newer and more efficient than that it should be worth doing.

It is still being promoted I got it as an offer on clixsense kiwi wall tab for a reward.  Ran it on laptop i7 Oct cor cpu and don't have stats but was reving away at 100% and was more productive than bit coin miner app.  On samsung tab quad core ran as slow as and on Oct core vivo mobile was nearly as fast as laptop but slowed down and overheated processor failsafe shut down
<a href="https://www.clixsense.com/?11603717" target=_blank><img src="https://csstatic.com/banners/clixsense_gpt2016e468x60green.png" border=0></a>

[BrewMaster]

did they already stop doing this? or is it special for certain users only?
i just checked the website and there is no "mining" option on top:

...
What hardware were you mining on?
I just did the maths on my old i5-3750K.

Set at 20% in the background for the last 4 hours averaged 20.85 sat/hr based on 10c KW/hr electricity and $4000 BTC.
I measured an 8.5w increase in CPU power so that's $0.00085 to make $0.000834 of BTC. So just about break-even at the moment, could be worth it if BTC goes up or they increase the rewards like they say.

it still doesn't seem to be worth it to be honest!
and i feel like they are getting shady a little. first with all the lotteries and rewards and then with the profit on your deposit then calling themselves a "wallet" and now this!

same like me there is no "mining" option on the website

i think they removed it again!
at first it was active for only some users, probably active accounts there. which was activated for me later when i claimed a couple of times and hung around in the site some more.

but now it disappeared again! although there is a link on top of the page in yellow rectangle giving me the link for mining. so maybe they moved it there.

[TheQuin]

i think they removed it again!
at first it was active for only some users, probably active accounts there. which was activated for me later when i claimed a couple of times and hung around in the site some more.

but now it disappeared again! although there is a link on top of the page in yellow rectangle giving me the link for mining. so maybe they moved it there.

Yes, it's that they just moved the link. It's been set up to run in a separate tab that doesn't have the countdown timer on the freeroll. They also took out the text about it being in testing by a limited number of users so that most likely means it's been rolled out to everyone now.

[boyshx]

Nope it's not worth doing t. I'm sure there are people who are struggling to get the bitcoin with high end devices like ASICS and gpu and don't really understand how can one make the profits from browser mining. Is it really a mining or just way to get attention of everyone?

Anyway, if you even try to start it on your iPad or smartphone device then it is getting heated very quickly. Just try it and review it here. I'm afraid that it will kill the iPad in short period of time. Thumbs down for this one.

[shield132]

Can't imagine why they decided to add this silly function on their website, especially now when difficult is high. That function would be ok in 2010 year but not now. Of course answer is no, it don't worth and you even don't had to ask that. There is no time of cpu mining despite the fact that we have new i9, it will waste a little % of resources for nothing. But seems browser mining is becoming popular because piratebay had put similar script on their website.

[Skarner21]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

you can earn but not worth it because its so small earnings,i think better to play in faucet or keep reading here in bitcointalk forum thats pretty good not like mining in freebitco.in,you can also try to study trading for your earnings here

Yes, I have tried it for many hours but not actually getting more coins. I think through browser activity it will take a lot of time to mature the coins and I think freebitco.in will make more money through our computer hardware and they are paying fewer coins to us.

Well this is also what i think they are using our hardware and they are earnings with our hardware.. i heard that there is affiliate mining they can earn from your hardware and they can pay you only percentage i think just found this in other forum. and i saw there are lots of site right now giving browser mining like this one http://www.coincrunch.win/
I don't think if its profitable or not.. but for me much better to don't apply because it can overheat your CPU they are using your CPU to mine altcoin or monero..

[Cherylstar86]

I have seen many freebitco.in users talking about the browser mining function on this site, this function seems to have disappear on the site for now. Honestly speaking, I don't think it is worth the effort to turn on the browser mining as the earnings seems to be very low, but it still serves an additional function for users who wanted to earn more free money from the site.

It was just a waste of time if you make it as serious activity and I believed that the efforts will be wasted due to low browser earnings. Earning free money online can be achieved without that as long as you are hardworking and willing to join here at btctalk forum service section. Not this kind of ways earning free with very low btc amount is such a time consuming activity which is not worth as sustainable source of money.

[TheQuin]

It was just a waste of time if you make it as serious activity and I believed that the efforts will be wasted due to low browser earnings. Earning free money online can be achieved without that as long as you are hardworking and willing to join here at btctalk forum service section. Not this kind of ways earning free with very low btc amount is such a time consuming activity which is not worth as sustainable source of money.

I think you are missing the point. Leaving the miner tab running at a low % of CPU in the background while you use your computer for other things will add a few more satoshi an hour to your account as will doing a freeroll whenever you have a few seconds spare. It may seem like a small amount because it is now, but the pennies I was collecting over 3 years ago are now worth dollars. Overall I've made 0.35BTC from this site with very little effort.

[n691309]

I checked it out and I have to say things like this are never worth the effort and the risk. you are risking over heating and killing your hardware after all. and at the very least you will shorten the life of your hardware while getting paid a very small amount which is negligible.

if you want to mine you have to do it more seriously, with real equipment (an ASIC miner or some GPU rigs) and with cheap electricity. all the rest of the methods will never be worth the damage.

I really hope most people will understand this and not end up doing a trial and error until they end up frying up their laptop or other gadgets they may wish to try this with. It isn't worth it anyway. However, for those who are just curious with a free laptop or PC lying around somewhere, I see no reason why they cannot waste their electricity to try it out.

[savioroshan]

Guys, basically what they mine is monero. And after taking a percentage of  profit they pay the rest to you in btc. Nowadays many faucet sites started to do this. Why you want to give a percentage of mining to freebitco admin. If you want to mine, use the minergate software and do the mining. The whole profit will be yours. Or you can use tomos81 application to mine . Here is the link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2078056.msg20765204#msg20765204

[TheQuin]

Guys, basically what they mine is monero. And after taking a percentage of  profit they pay the rest to you in btc. Nowadays many faucet sites started to do this. Why you want to give a percentage of mining to freebitco admin. If you want to mine, use the minergate software and do the mining. The whole profit will be yours. Or you can use tomos81 application to mine . Here is the link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2078056.msg20765204#msg20765204

I'm not sure where you got this information from but it is wrong and the guy running Minergate is taking 0.5%.

Just to clarify some points that have been made here:

1). Your browser is mining monero and we are auto-converting it into bitcoin at the current prices
2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.
3). The mining is completely optional, we are not running the miner automatically or forcing anyone to use it. If you feel it is profitable for you, then use it. If not, then don't.

If there is enough interest, I might try to reverse-engineer the miner so that we can keep 100% of the revenue and share all of it with the users. We do not expect to make any profit for this, it's only an additional revenue stream for faucet users.

[Tyrantt]

faucets will always be faucets, no matter what scheme they use, they'll always give out dust. If you want to use freebitco.in for that, better use http://folding.stanford.edu/start-folding/ instead, unleast it's for a good cause.

[Decoded]

It's interesting, because from what I can tell, it's not random or some sort of hidden trickery. It seems like it's all JS. Pretty cool.

Honestly there's no point with mining with them, though. The site itself isn't a Bitcoin mining website, and your browser isn't optimised (plus JS isn't) to repeatedly just perform cryptographic functions. It's another ploy to pull in the newbies. You still will make nothing. This is browser-based CPU mining, which isn't nearly as efficient as normal CPU mining, which died years ago.

[crazyivan]

You can use Nicehash to do the same and I can bet you ll get much better results. Still, CPU mining s been dead for a long, long time. There s no way you can make anything here unless you have completely free electricity.

[madwica]

I do not think this is worth it because it will cause to harm your computer, CPU mining for me is not profitable specially it consume lots of electricity and if you are in the country which the rate of electricity was too high do not try this and if you really want freebitco.in just claim only in their faucet and not to mine. I try this in just one day but I only get small satoshi which is very far on my expected satoshi to receive but if users really want it just go and take the risk but still for me it’s not recommended.

[miningguru]

I think browser mining will harm the computer hardware. It needs a specialized hardware for mining and also they are giving a very low amount to the people who are mining through the browser. I am not getting one thing clear how can a company pay 100% through browser mining to the participants who are doing browser mining.

[TheQuin]

You can use Nicehash to do the same and I can bet you ll get much better results. Still, CPU mining s been dead for a long, long time. There s no way you can make anything here unless you have completely free electricity.

No, it's mining XMR which is a CPU mined coin. It turns a profit with most modern desktops. I've tested it and calculated the figures rather than just assuming.

I do not think this is worth it because it will cause to harm your computer, CPU mining for me is not profitable specially it consume lots of electricity and if you are in the country which the rate of electricity was too high do not try this and if you really want freebitco.in just claim only in their faucet and not to mine. I try this in just one day but I only get small satoshi which is very far on my expected satoshi to receive but if users really want it just go and take the risk but still for me it’s not recommended.

I think browser mining will harm the computer hardware. It needs a specialized hardware for mining and also they are giving a very low amount to the people who are mining through the browser. I am not getting one thing clear how can a company pay 100% through browser mining to the participants who are doing browser mining.

No, it won't harm your computer. Processors are quite good at processing without hurting themselves. They have safety features to reduce the frequency when they near their temperature limit and cutout if that doesn't work.
Mining XMR and exchanging it for BTC is profitable and freebitco.in are passing on all profits to their customers, it's a bit of a gimmick to get more people using the site, but hey why not?

[streazight]

I was curious so I tried it with moonbitcoin yesterday and it installed a "bitcoin miner" in the "cache" directory of my browser. It has been identified as a riskware by my anti-virus so I deleted it.

I am a chosen one by freebitco.in but I won't activate mining, I think it is useless for the moment.

It isn't just useless for the moment, I am not sure it would really go that far. Just my guess anyway. Moon bitcoin however is one faucet site nobody should try out. That site installs malware easily on people's browser and you may not be lucky to quickly take note of it.

Freebitco.in however do have a good reputation for years now, so I do not have any problem with it for those who wants to use their platform for other means and whoever feels it is ok for them to earn some satoshis at their own little time using any of the functions they have, why not?

[klf]

No, it won't harm your computer. Processors are quite good at processing without hurting themselves. They have safety features to reduce the frequency when they near their temperature limit and cutout if that doesn't work.
Mining XMR and exchanging it for BTC is profitable and freebitco.in are passing on all profits to their customers, it's a bit of a gimmick to get more people using the site, but hey why not?

I think it will have some impact on your PC performance in the long run if you mine every day. Also what people earn money from this mining is very little and it may be worth to put your PC at risk. I don't know how one can calculate whether what they are getting is 100% of what they mine or after deduction. Is there any way we can crosscheck that part?

[TheQuin]

I think it will have some impact on your PC performance in the long run if you mine every day. Also what people earn money from this mining is very little and it may be worth to put your PC at risk. I don't know how one can calculate whether what they are getting is 100% of what they mine or after deduction. Is there any way we can crosscheck that part?

What is that based on? What makes you think that doing processing will in any way damage a processor? Could you cite some evidence of where that has ever been observed? Processors have an operating temperature range and systems in place to make sure they don't exceed that. The result is that processor will happily function at 100% utilisation 24/7 for many years after they have been made obsolete by newer equipment.

Secondly, if you don't want to believe the site owners when they say that I guess nothing they could produce would convince you. If you're that sceptical then I guess there aren't many services you would use.

[Golftech]

I think it will have some impact on your PC performance in the long run if you mine every day. Also what people earn money from this mining is very little and it may be worth to put your PC at risk. I don't know how one can calculate whether what they are getting is 100% of what they mine or after deduction. Is there any way we can crosscheck that part?

What is that based on? What makes you think that doing processing will in any way damage a processor? Could you cite some evidence of where that has ever been observed? Processors have an operating temperature range and systems in place to make sure they don't exceed that. The result is that processor will happily function at 100% utilisation 24/7 for many years after they have been made obsolete by newer equipment.

Secondly, if you don't want to believe the site owners when they say that I guess nothing they could produce would convince you. If you're that sceptical then I guess there aren't many services you would use.

Got curios and yet interested is this works both Intel and amd procie? If that CPU both have operating temp and will still perform will after using it into mining? After your question now I'm trying to find it out if this will really works and will not affect the performance of my computers.

[Fire Rabbit]

Guys, I just tried the web browsing mining and I should say its worthless. Its Just waste of time. Its better to mine directly from minergate. The only advantage what I see in this is you will get satoshis credited instantly to your account without much delay. That's it. In my opinion we will get more profit if we use minergate to mine the monero. Basically all these sites use coinhive for browser mining. Coinhive takes 30% as fee for mining and freebitco will take a percentage of what we have mined and rest will be given to us. So its just waste of time.

[Razor33]

For me the mining option works but the satoshi i earn mining show up in the mining page and they are not credited in my frebitco account for some reason
Tried for 3 days now... 5000 satoshi mined yet none added into my acc...

[Kyraishi]

For me the mining option works but the satoshi i earn mining show up in the mining page and they are not credited in my frebitco account for some reason
Tried for 3 days now... 5000 satoshi mined yet none added into my acc...

As per their page you should be credited money to your account every hour if you have made anything. So maybe you haven't yet hit an hour? If it still doesn't show up then just contact freebitco.in support or message wetsuit.

Guys, I just tried the web browsing mining and I should say its worthless. Its Just waste of time. Its better to mine directly from minergate. The only advantage what I see in this is you will get satoshis credited instantly to your account without much delay. That's it. In my opinion we will get more profit if we use minergate to mine the monero. Basically all these sites use coinhive for browser mining. Coinhive takes 30% as fee for mining and freebitco will take a percentage of what we have mined and rest will be given to us. So its just waste of time.

This pretty much sums it up, yeah.

[mkmdoc]

For me the mining option works but the satoshi i earn mining show up in the mining page and they are not credited in my frebitco account for some reason
Tried for 3 days now... 5000 satoshi mined yet none added into my acc...

In order to add those coins in your account, I think we have to reach minimum requirement may be. I think there are many people trying this browser mining but I don't know how can Freebitco.in will benefit from this browser mining.

[TheQuin]

For me the mining option works but the satoshi i earn mining show up in the mining page and they are not credited in my frebitco account for some reason
Tried for 3 days now... 5000 satoshi mined yet none added into my acc...

In order to add those coins in your account, I think we have to reach minimum requirement may be. I think there are many people trying this browser mining but I don't know how can Freebitco.in will benefit from this browser mining.

I don't know about the minimum requirements but to answer your second question it is marketing. Something that creates a bit of a buzz and gets people talking about. That will, in turn, mean people that had previously not heard of the site may have now.

[jjdub7]

I think it's worthless. Because it's like ripping your PC CPU for just satoshis. If your PC is old and you didn't clear it recently, browser mining could literary fry you CPU. Because in old and unclean PC's there is a lot of dust and this is lowering cooling abilities of the fans inside.

[TheQuin]

I think it's worthless. Because it's like ripping your PC CPU for just satoshis. If your PC is old and you didn't clear it recently, browser mining could literary fry you CPU. Because in old and unclean PC's there is a lot of dust and this is lowering cooling abilities of the fans inside.

It is true that a lot of dust will reduce the cooling, however, it is complete nonsense to suggest that will fry your computer. It will just cause the PC to ease back the frequency of the processor, giving less performance, or even in an extream situation to shut it down.

[dmamigo]

I think it's worthless. Because it's like ripping your PC CPU for just satoshis. If your PC is old and you didn't clear it recently, browser mining could literary fry you CPU. Because in old and unclean PC's there is a lot of dust and this is lowering cooling abilities of the fans inside.

It is true that a lot of dust will reduce the cooling, however, it is complete nonsense to suggest that will fry your computer. It will just cause the PC to ease back the frequency of the processor, giving less performance, or even in an extream situation to shut it down.

It won't do such things for sure, and cleaning is individuals responsibility, even not cleaning and using casually can do similar harms. But I don't think it will be profitable enough if cost of running the system is taken into account. But if the BTC price goes up and the rewards is fixed, we may achieve something.
Personally I think if you want to mine, do it in a proper manner as it is done, much better option to go for.

[Kena Banned]

I think there is no risk in freebitco sites. it just takes time to get bitcoin. although only slightly but it is effective to add a bitcoin wallet

[boyshx]

Here is is my another review about that one. I tried freebitco with four of the devices that are present in my house. Two of them are quadra core smart phones so they give me ability of four cores to be used. Then there are two iPad one is mini and one is the pencil iPad both of them are high end devices with two cores allowed to use each. In anyway all the devices are giving me maximum user of 5H/s of hash rates which is 20 H/s in total. The devices are getting heated up ver quickly so I had them kept near the air condition to reduce that effect. However, the results with these devices and that much hash rates doesn't seem to be worth it as I was able to generate 20-25 satoshi over the hours of period. That's like playing the free roll on the website itself. So it's not worthy for sure as long as you don't fit in high graphics unit to your smartphone. That's a joke really.

[cryptolk]

I think it's worthless. Because it's like ripping your PC CPU for just satoshis. If your PC is old and you didn't clear it recently, browser mining could literary fry you CPU. Because in old and unclean PC's there is a lot of dust and this is lowering cooling abilities of the fans inside.

will this bad impact to mobile cpus. Experienced over heating while just trying

[BigBall]

That is not worth for me because I really hard can earn even cents with that way.For me it is more easy to earn in freebitcoin.in with some referrals.

[fiomcorka]

I checked it out and I have to say things like this are never worth the effort and the risk. you are risking over heating and killing your hardware after all. and at the very least you will shorten the life of your hardware while getting paid a very small amount which is negligible.

if you want to mine you have to do it more seriously, with real equipment (an ASIC miner or some GPU rigs) and with cheap electricity. all the rest of the methods will never be worth the damage.

I don't really think you'll overheat or kill your hardware with in-browser mining. It's limited to specifications allocated to your browser, so it might slow down performance but that's it. The flip side is that you're likely to make precisely nothing with this if they are actually using your hash rate to mine Bitcoin. If you manage to get anything out of this, my guess is that they are mining Monero. Or maybe they are just using you for ad revenue and paying out like a faucet.

No man! I have checked it out. If you have a lot that your PC can offer, you can increase the thread to earn more. The higher the thread, the higher the hash rate.

Now for someone who is just trying it out and does not even understand the implication of over using their PC who has probably been looking out for free satoshis every one hour anyway, may just decide to want to try this out.

[Myfe]

Friends, I just stumbled upon this thread. I'm the FreeBitco.in community manager for Bitcointalk. If any of you have questions, issues, or feedback related to the browser mining or other services on our site please PM me!

As for the mining, it's something we're trying out in a beta format right now, which is why some of you don't see the option offered.

The value of mining in general - with as minimal amount of investment and risk as this option provides - could be debated forever. The way for it to work best is to allow the mining to happen while you're not using your computer, while you're sleeping. Crank the CPU use up to 100% and check in the morning.

Also, currently we can only update the earnings amounts every 30 minutes. We're actively working on real time reporting, but development takes time.

Any feedback for us? PM me with the subject "Mining Feedback".

Thanks.
Myfe.

[Razor33]

Hey all.
After i tested for few days this new " mining option " on freebitco.in site i can say i'm quite happy about it !

First of all you don't have to kill your CPU because you can choice to bring it to just 80-90 % without keeping it at max and i don't think this way will kill your CPU or PSU not even in long term time.

Second thing you don't have to keep your entire PC open to mine this way 24/7 and consume additional watts. You can just mine this way when you keep it open anyways !
For example in my case i have an i5-3570 4 cores 3,4 GHz (turbo mode 4 GHz) and i mine when i play PC games , or when i work at my PC.
If i play WoW (my favorite MMO game ) witch only take 50 % of my CPU (in ultra details) i will only allocate 30 % to mining and leave 10-15 % free to not overheat my CPU !
If i just watch a movie in HD , or some Youtube movies or i do web browsing i will allocate 70 % to web mining.
If i do some Excel or Microsoft Word work witch only takes a little of my CPU i will allocate 80 % to mining.
And if i leave my PC idle / unattended for 30-60 min i will allocate even 90 % to web mining !

Third about the power composition not being worth please keep in mind that Bitcoins in 2009 where worth $27 each and today they are almost 5k !
So if you believe the price will keep raise like this well then is well worth to consume some extra watts to web mining.
If you think BTC will collapse or go very low some day then you should not mine in ANY WAY !

Fourth for people saying " but you can make a lot more using mining rigs / or using mining programs and consume those " watts " move efficiently !
Well keep in mind that not all people are IT experts or have so much time like others to dedicate to Cryptocurrency and sites like freebitco.in are providing such option to allow ANYONE (even my grandmother who is just using PC only for Facebook / Youtube / Web-surfing ) to get some free satoshis when they do others things as well at their PC (more stuff you do less CPU you will allocate)
If you have more time IQ or time AND more money to invest / risk into this then feel free to mine with mining Rigs or ASICs or more complex programs !  

Fifth for people saying " but there are much better web mining sites providing the same service but giving out better payouts for my CPU usage " !
Then please kindly mention them ! I would be happy to try them out as well
But before you do so please :
a) Be sure they don't give you trojans / malwares / keylogs as well together with the free satoshis =)) !
b) Be sure they allow us to choice how much % of our CPU we want to allocate (not many want to overheat their hardware) !!
c) Be sure using task Manager or others programs and check they don't use more CPU compunction that what they claimed ! (example a site you set to 70 % and they take 80-90 lol!) !
d) Be sure they payout for real !
e) Be sure you are not linking your ref code or i will just think you link it for personal gain only and you din't tested the above a-b-c-d points
We the community can still reward you with a simple " Thanks " (+ you will be happy for helping out?) !
OR if you link your ref code / link then please also provide not photoshopped proofs of points a-b-c-d so at least you will deserve those referrals for doing a detailed research and explantion !

And if you bother to read my post until here , i have a nice tip for people who say the mining option don't show anymore:
Today when i open the site to do my usual hourly roll i could not find the option there anymore so i simply went at history in google Chrome and found the mining link
Opened it and voila ! I can web-mine again And YES the satoshis keep adding to my account !

Thx for reading my opinion !
Raz

 

[dharnamonitor]

I think it is not worth it, for me it's just a waste of time to mine using browser and I also doubt that ut really mines using just a browser but the website has a good reputation so if you are willing to waste your time and electricity bill with just a pieces of satoshi then go for it. I'm just being practical here there are many ways to earn btc out there, you can try those too but mining? Nah  ever since mining is not worth to do

[Myfe]

Ladies, mining's back baby, mining is back!

Find the link on the Free BTC page, it'll say:

Use your browser to passively mine and earn bitcoins! Click here to read more.

Mine like a champion today!

[siddartha1492]

I think it is really worth it if you have a PC (not a smartphone or tab or a laptop). Just traditional PC. And with no graphic cards. Then freebitco mining is a good option. You don't need to run your computer specfically for mining, but you can just mine when you are working on PC. Like you can set the CPU usage to 70%and keep doing your own regular work. Don't use it while gaming or some other heavy work like file conversions, video editing and all. Even though you will get very less saoshi, but the good thing is that it adds up in your regular freebitco account. And then after you reach 0.0003 BTC, you even get some daily interest. Along with other free btc rolls and all. So all your freebitco earnings gather at one place and it becomes easier to withdraw or gain interest. Also bitcoin prices in future will surely rise, so no harm in earning some satoshis without doing any hardwork!!

[dustboy]

I think it is really worth it if you have a PC (not a smartphone or tab or a laptop). Just traditional PC. And with no graphic cards. Then freebitco mining is a good option. You don't need to run your computer specfically for mining, but you can just mine when you are working on PC. Like you can set the CPU usage to 70%and keep doing your own regular work. Don't use it while gaming or some other heavy work like file conversions, video editing and all. Even though you will get very less saoshi, but the good thing is that it adds up in your regular freebitco account. And then after you reach 0.0003 BTC, you even get some daily interest. Along with other free btc rolls and all. So all your freebitco earnings gather at one place and it becomes easier to withdraw or gain interest. Also bitcoin prices in future will surely rise, so no harm in earning some satoshis without doing any hardwork!!

Is it really worth? I dont think so, I would prefer to claim faucets hourly in some faucet sites instead of using this mining feature. Indeed this feature does not requires a lot of work but claiming faucets will give more satoshis imo. I wonder how much you someone with an old PC will earn through this feature if it does not work 24/7?

[carlfebz2]

I think it is really worth it if you have a PC (not a smartphone or tab or a laptop). Just traditional PC. And with no graphic cards. Then freebitco mining is a good option. You don't need to run your computer specfically for mining, but you can just mine when you are working on PC. Like you can set the CPU usage to 70%and keep doing your own regular work. Don't use it while gaming or some other heavy work like file conversions, video editing and all. Even though you will get very less saoshi, but the good thing is that it adds up in your regular freebitco account. And then after you reach 0.0003 BTC, you even get some daily interest. Along with other free btc rolls and all. So all your freebitco earnings gather at one place and it becomes easier to withdraw or gain interest. Also bitcoin prices in future will surely rise, so no harm in earning some satoshis without doing any hardwork!!

Is it really worth? I dont think so, I would prefer to claim faucets hourly in some faucet sites instead of using this mining feature. Indeed this feature does not requires a lot of work but claiming faucets will give more satoshis imo. I wonder how much you someone with an old PC will earn through this feature if it does not work 24/7?

I would definitely do the same thing too on which  i would rather claim faucets on hourly or on some time limits compared on wasting up my cpu processing usage. At the post above using your cpu computing power on high percentage on daily basis would really give some effects later on and i dont believe that this wont harm your pc and besides i do have suspicion that they arent mining bitcoin but rather on mining monero but well no matter whar they mine i dont really care at all.

[darklus123]

More than any sayings if it's really worth it or not. I am trying this scheme.
Standard H/s Power is 33H/s
For 30 mins I gained 10 sats pretty small right?

Mining Settings 4 threads used
100% GPU used

I will try to mine for more than 5hrs then lets see what's going to be my verdict I'll be updating later

[TheQuin]

I would definitely do the same thing too on which  i would rather claim faucets on hourly or on some time limits compared on wasting up my cpu processing usage. At the post above using your cpu computing power on high percentage on daily basis would really give some effects later on and i dont believe that this wont harm your pc and besides i do have suspicion that they arent mining bitcoin but rather on mining monero but well no matter whar they mine i dont really care at all.

You'll find you get far more out of this forum if you read rather than just post. Both points you raised have already been dealt with in this thread. Yes, they are mining XMR, they have officially confirmed that. It would make no sense what so ever to directly mine BTC with a CPU. No, it won't in any way harm your CPU, they're designed and built to do this.

[digaran]

Hey all.
~Snip~
Thx for reading my opinion !
Raz

Yeah right, we trust you, a legit community member posting 30 lines, God bless you sir, is there any bounties and translations? I will get on my knees and beg for it. I have a sister, she could also gets on her knees and the rest will depend on how big of a man you are. don't lol just yet.
Mining farms with the best equipment are not happy about their mining ROI, they are cheating by creating Bitcoin cash and Bitcoin gold forks to keep mining a coin with lower difficulty and selling their used hardware as brand new to people in other countries.
No way for you and people both earning profit. only you could earn while faucet users provide electricity and hardware.

[felicita]

i have opened there tab in one of my 1$ cloud VPS server !
and got after 1weeks about 2000Satoshi at my hashrate of 9h/s XD
so i would never use my own pc for this XD



kind regards

[darklus123]

i have opened there tab in one of my 1$ cloud VPS server !
and got after 1weeks about 2000Satoshi at my hashrate of 9h/s XD
so i would never use my own pc for this XD



kind regards

That idea was also in my head i just dont know how to implement a cloud mining using their script. I am not so familiar with vps server.

Is that the kind of server that you were using to host your site? If yes then so does it mean that you are using your visitors pc to initiate a hashrate? 2k sat for one week is awful tho you are getting it for free which is a good idea either

[Ingudum]

i tried mining it but no reward after one hour so i stop.

[miguelmorales85]

Tried it out for about 3 hours yesterday.

Received 11 satoshi...

worth it  

That would be a big NO from me 

I agree with you, it is not worth it.
I rather do some freelance projects that would make me earn more BTC than only satoshis...

[TheQuin]

i tried mining it but no reward after one hour so i stop.

Have another look and start mining again as I believe the amount earned statistic is only updated once an hour. If the page was showing that you were solving hashes then you will get paid.

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very good strategy indeed. It makes the other users think to why not try their hi lo game cause for every bet that they are making they may able to earn double from the game itself and from that rewards.

Yet in the end it would still be the advantage of freebitcoin cause anytime soon you still loses the game. I can say they really are in good shape in this business

[Lane11]

Forsome reason mining doesnt work right for me. For example I can leave my PC on 24|7 but when I start to mine it just doesnt mine. It stops by itself in an hour or so. Same on my phone it doesnt even work for 1h as soon as I turn my screen off it stops mining. So its not automatic & i cant just leave it on & forget about it. Have to go to pc & refresh the page & start to mine again which is annoying. Anyone else has that issue?

[bajing]

Indeed laptop or pc can be used to mine bitcoin, but what you earn is not worth with the risk. if you intend to mine bitcoin, I suggest to buy mining hardware than you are using this way or investing in cloud mining because the both ways that i mentioned will never give a profit.

[Dimanes]

I like it)
https://www.screencast.com/t/FP3ghkpBTn

[Bart1000]

I am averaging 1k sat/day well its something however I think i could utilise this processing power better. Somehow I got this feeling that is is wasted and I do not see further point of it. Soon I will give up i think.

[richardsNY]

I am averaging 1k sat/day well its something however I think i could utilise this processing power better. Somehow I got this feeling that is is wasted and I do not see further point of it. Soon I will give up i think.

Of course it's a waste of time. If you install a few apps on your mobile device, you'll be making like a 3 to 5k satoshi per day at minimum. On top of that, you ultimately can hit bonuses of like 100k satoshi every hour. It's still a waste of time considering the rewards you get, but it's far more rewarding than a nonsensical option such as browser mining -- it's nothing more than an utter waste of time and resources. In other words, it costs more than you gain. I just can't understand that people actually try something like this in reward for dust....

If you want to have a look at the apps I am talking about, then search for :

1 -- Alien Run.
2 -- Blockchain Game.
3 -- Free Bitcoin.
4 -- Abundance.

All apps are from developer Bitcoin Aliens.

[Lane11]

If you want to have a look at the apps I am talking about, then search for :

1 -- Alien Run.
2 -- Blockchain Game.
3 -- Free Bitcoin.
4 -- Abundance.

All apps are from developer Bitcoin Aliens.

ya you have to sit & play it. actually pay attention. no thx. i got bored in 10 mins of alien game. its wastes too much of real time. I dont see see how is sitting & wasting time on games is better than to turn on miner 24|7 & go out or go eat meal? Miner lets you to have life & hobbies & dont ruin your eyes with concentration on when to jump in game

[richardsNY]

Miner lets you to have life & hobbies & dont ruin your eyes with concentration on when to jump in game

This form of mining costs more in resources than you get in satoshis, is it that difficult to understand? In other words, there is no point into doing it if there is nothing to gain -- that should make sense, right? People get excited about browser mining, but they ignore the costs involved (costs that initially aren't visible). At the end of the day, everything being mentioned here (even the apps I came up with as example) are nothing more than a waste of time. You're far better off just getting involved into lending, which is really a form of passive income that gets you at least some returns.

[Myfe]

Miner lets you to have life & hobbies & dont ruin your eyes with concentration on when to jump in game

This form of mining costs more in resources than you get in satoshis, is it that difficult to understand? In other words, there is no point into doing it if there is nothing to gain -- that should make sense, right? People get excited about browser mining, but they ignore the costs involved (costs that initially aren't visible). At the end of the day, everything being mentioned here (even the apps I came up with as example) are nothing more than a waste of time. You're far better off just getting involved into lending, which is really a form of passive income that gets you at least some returns.

You should share your cost calculations with us.

[TheQuin]

Miner lets you to have life & hobbies & dont ruin your eyes with concentration on when to jump in game

This form of mining costs more in resources than you get in satoshis, is it that difficult to understand? In other words, there is no point into doing it if there is nothing to gain -- that should make sense, right? People get excited about browser mining, but they ignore the costs involved (costs that initially aren't visible). At the end of the day, everything being mentioned here (even the apps I came up with as example) are nothing more than a waste of time. You're far better off just getting involved into lending, which is really a form of passive income that gets you at least some returns.

It depends on what hardware you have and how much your electricity costs but the calculations I've made it is profitable on an old i5 for me. This is just the extra electricity that the mining process takes so it dependant on the PC being turned on and in use already. Lending is also a good way to make passive income but of course, you don't to have capital to put at risk to browser mine.

[spngebob]

i have opened there tab in one of my 1$ cloud VPS server !
and got after 1weeks about 2000Satoshi at my hashrate of 9h/s XD
so i would never use my own pc for this XD

kind regards

This amount is not worth of mining, but some people say that it is worth of mining if you have powerful CPU but somehow I am not convinced in whole story.
I am also not sure about something, if you saw that it's not bringing you income, why did you run miner for 1 week?

[infinitybit]

Major update everyone... I have PROOF that the Freebitco.in "Browser Mining" app IS NOT a Bitcoin mining app but a MONERO mining app as some of you have suspected.

Here's how I found out...

1) My Malwarebytes blocked the app's domain from loading - I looked at the logs and see which domain that was... voila! It was https://authedmine.com which is powered by https://coinhive.com/

2) I went to that domain and got this because I had my ABP (Ad Block Pro) on my Chrome browser: https://prnt.sc/h3egz5

And if you read more details about their program on coinhive.com, here's how economical the app is for them:

"With just 10–20 active miners on your site, you can expect a monthly revenue of about 0.3 XMR (~$26)."

So once again, this is a MONEROminer NOT bitcoin, which makes lots of sense as there's no way CPU power can mine any bitcoin right now.

So does that make Freebitco.in dirty?

[nelmari]

Nope it's not worth it but if you have the patience to wait for a couple of days, months or even years of mining here then be my guest. I personally do like this faucet site because this was the first faucet site I got my bitcoins with but with mining I just don't think it's worth the time and effort in my opinion though.

[Berk]

Nope it's not worth it but if you have the patience to wait for a couple of days, months or even years of mining here then be my guest. I personally do like this faucet site because this was the first faucet site I got my bitcoins with but with mining I just don't think it's worth the time and effort in my opinion though.

Actually it would probably take a few hundred years to get anything. A lot of sites do this to actually use your processing power for alt coins rather than Bitcoin.

[babygun]

The browser mining doesn't give big rewards, but is another free service that they offer.
When I am working on the pc, I leave the browser mining open at a low %, it gives me only a couple of satoshis, but it is free 

[Lane11]

Miner lets you to have life & hobbies & dont ruin your eyes with concentration on when to jump in game

This form of mining costs more in resources than you get in satoshis, is it that difficult to understand? In other words, there is no point into doing it if there is nothing to gain -- that should make sense, right? People get excited about browser mining, but they ignore the costs involved (costs that initially aren't visible). At the end of the day, everything being mentioned here (even the apps I came up with as example) are nothing more than a waste of time. You're far better off just getting involved into lending, which is really a form of passive income that gets you at least some returns.

You should share your cost calculations with us.

you are saying that if i'm running already 3 PCs 24|7|365 without any mining if i start to mine on all 3 of those PCs which is on anyway that would increase my electricity bill? Is that what you mean by "cost"?

[bitcoinmeme]

im still mining and its doesnt affect my computer or my electricity make it work in background on low

[TheQuin]

Major update everyone... I have PROOF that the Freebitco.in "Browser Mining" app IS NOT a Bitcoin mining app but a MONERO mining app as some of you have suspected.

Here's how I found out...

1) My Malwarebytes blocked the app's domain from loading - I looked at the logs and see which domain that was... voila! It was https://authedmine.com which is powered by https://coinhive.com/

2) I went to that domain and got this because I had my ABP (Ad Block Pro) on my Chrome browser: https://prnt.sc/h3egz5

And if you read more details about their program on coinhive.com, here's how economical the app is for them:

"With just 10–20 active miners on your site, you can expect a monthly revenue of about 0.3 XMR (~$26)."

So once again, this is a MONEROminer NOT bitcoin, which makes lots of sense as there's no way CPU power can mine any bitcoin right now.

So does that make Freebitco.in dirty?

Wow, quite the detective aren't you. If you go back and actually read a thread before posting you might learn some things. I said in the 3 post on this thread that it was mining XMR (Monero).
Also, the site owner posted this in another thread:

Just to clarify some points that have been made here:

1). Your browser is mining monero and we are auto-converting it into bitcoin at the current prices
2). We are giving 100% of what we make back to users, we are taking a 0% cut.
3). The mining is completely optional, we are not running the miner automatically or forcing anyone to use it. If you feel it is profitable for you, then use it. If not, then don't.

If there is enough interest, I might try to reverse-engineer the miner so that we can keep 100% of the revenue and share all of it with the users. We do not expect to make any profit for this, it's only an additional revenue stream for faucet users.

So no it doesn't make Freebitco.in dirty but it says a lot about how you jump to conclusions and don't do any research before posting.

[funkykong]

hi, i'm new here and new to the bitcoin world, i dont have a clue how mining works.

But i just want to say that i find this feature GREAT!!!

Why?

because my cost are none. I work as an hotel recepcionist 8hs per day, so i use freebitco.in faucet at work, and today i started using the web miner.

This PC is shit, but it can handle a 8 h/s at 60% CPU usage.


so, for using my workingplace electricity, i think its a good feature.


i'm really new to the bitcoin world, so dont take my post very seriously, i just happen to have 0.09 btc for betting in cloudbet, and i've taken it to freebitco.in wallet.

Yeah, i've heard that using a faucet site as a walet is suicidal, but they are giving me interests and i didnt have any problem yet.

It's an easy and userfrendly website.

A lot of people are telling me to use another wallet, but none of them gives me interests, and the amount of money i am puting in danger is not that much, and cost me no effort to earn it (i betted as a game, just for fun. But i'm not longer betting, because i got bored)

[bitcoinmeme]

freebitco is very reputable im trusting them with my btc and i like the interest too they are offering

[felipe04]

I do mining in freebitco.in its not worth it a lot of current and time wasted i think more good for your time if you read some news in bitcoin and dont waste your time in freebitco.in,You can try telegram bots there's a lot of bot in bitcoin some are legit but more on scam so search before you access there bots for your extra earnings

[JacLuck]

I'll try it again later. This time i will track that hash thing correctly

[Carmen01]

Got a notification in freebitco.in "Use your browser to passively mine bitcoin and receive mining rewards instantly to your FreeBitco.in account, credited every 5 minutes." Anyone has any idea how this works and is it worth it? Is there any chance of laptop/PC being damaged from this sort of "mining"?

you can't earn enough and its a total waste of time,i think spend time to monitor coins in trading than freebitco.in.If you do that i think your eletric bill is high than your profit.You can study any ideas in forum dont waste your time to know that kind of mining,study trading,campaign and faucet to earn many bitcoin is the best for us

[Protected101]

I'll try it again later. This time i will track that hash thing correctly

Do not try it, you already read more negative feedback about their browser mining? This is not worth it you only waste your time and effort it was consume huge electricity and it can also harm your gadgets if you do this kind of mining much better to do is do trading method.

[TheQuin]

you can't earn enough and its a total waste of time,i think

How much is enough? It's a passive activity so the only time it takes is for you to click the mouse twice.

spend time to monitor coins in trading than freebitco.in.

These are indeed things to do while the mining is going on in the background. You are comparing activities that will reward your effort to a passive income.

If you do that  i think your eletric bill is high than your profit.

You can use a calculator to find if mining on your particular hardware on your electricity tariff is profitable or not. On most modern desktop PCs it will be unless you have very expensive electricity.

You can study any ideas in forum dont waste your time to know that kind of mining,study trading,campaign and faucet to earn many bitcoin is the best for us

Again all these things take time for which you can earn a reward whereas mining is a passive income. How can it waste time if it doesn't take any?

[poscrypto]

Google is not good at these sites. I use the addition to the No Coin browser and do not worry about it.

[LTU_btc]

Google is not good at these sites. I use the addition to the No Coin browser and do not worry about it.

What do you mean by saying "Google isn't good at these sites"? And you shouldn't be worried about mining on Freebitco.in - they don't mine coins without your permission. Only you can select when to start mining, stop it or don't use it at all. You don't need to use any mining blocker addons while using Freebitco.in.
But many other faucets secretly mining coins in background without any warning and user permission.

[coinguru18]

How come you guys are getting so low hashrates where as I'm browser mining from a very lower CPU G2020 and getting an average 25H/s on both chrome and firefox http://i66.tinypic.com/2zzj6tc.png

[Lane11]

my mining doesnt work at all today. cant even add my ID to mining page its shows 0 up there

[Sevarchik]

browser mining its simply mining cryptonight coin with your cpu and convert to btc.
You can mine yourself on pools, but cpu mining is not profitable

[Zadicar]

Google is not good at these sites. I use the addition to the No Coin browser and do not worry about it.

What do you mean by saying "Google isn't good at these sites"? And you shouldn't be worried about mining on Freebitco.in - they don't mine coins without your permission. Only you can select when to start mining, stop it or don't use it at all. You don't need to use any mining blocker addons while using Freebitco.in.
But many other faucets secretly mining coins in background without any warning and user permission.

That's the good thing on freebitco.in which they don't really tend to act shady into their actions which they do really let the user decide for themselves if they would really involved into such mining but I would say this would be just a total waste of time and as being calculated on previous replies it even give you dust amount which isn't even enough to pay up tx fees once you decide to transfer or make transactions and besides using your own pc wont really be usable for sure I have tried using minergate feel likes my pc would become an oven toaster doing both cpu and gpu mining.

[rphk]

freebitcoin.in browser mining you cannot earn good amount of sathoshi , only CPU gets heated ,they may doing something on the background like using that processor power to mine something in the background , it is not worth for the user to mine using that browser , instead you can claim through soem faucets same amount of sathoshi.

[bit247]

mining bitcoin using PC ? no its not possible atm

[thaayb2]

I really don't think it is mining BTC directly, I assume it's mining XMR and that's being traded for BTC.

This. using coinhive.

[babygun]

freebitcoin.in browser mining you cannot earn good amount of sathoshi , only CPU gets heated ,they may doing something on the background like using that processor power to mine something in the background , it is not worth for the user to mine using that browser , instead you can claim through soem faucets same amount of sathoshi.

A couple of posts above you (by LTU_btc), it is clearly stated that freebitco.in doesn't do anything in the background, they don't mine without your permission. The site is online since 2013 and has a very solid reputation that they will not ruin by doing such things.

[christhemaner]

Guys, a question...

I tried mining, but it keeps staying the same after few hours.

NOD32 detected a threat, so i disabled it, but still it doesnt work,

any advice?

Thx

[TheQuin]

Guys, a question...

I tried mining, but it keeps staying the same after few hours.

NOD32 detected a threat, so i disabled it, but still it doesnt work,

any advice?

Thx

Windows Defender may have blocked it as well so it is worth checking that and adding it to the exceptions list.

[christhemaner]

Guys, a question...

I tried mining, but it keeps staying the same after few hours.

NOD32 detected a threat, so i disabled it, but still it doesnt work,

any advice?

Thx

Windows Defender may have blocked it as well so it is worth checking that and adding it to the exceptions list.

Works now thx

So how can i calculate how much can 20 H/s bring me per hour?

[TheQuin]

Works now thx

So how can i calculate how much can 20 H/s bring me per hour?

The only way I have found to do that is to run for 1hr then stop it and wait about 15 minutes for it to update. The exchange rate between XMR and BTC is always changing so the returns you get are as well.

[frowsiter]

Google is not good at these sites. I use the addition to the No Coin browser and do not worry about it.

What do you mean by saying "Google isn't good at these sites"? And you shouldn't be worried about mining on Freebitco.in - they don't mine coins without your permission. Only you can select when to start mining, stop it or don't use it at all. You don't need to use any mining blocker addons while using Freebitco.in.
But many other faucets secretly mining coins in background without any warning and user permission.

Yup this is really true. Freebitco is having good reputation amongst the community and it has always been good deal. I have tried the mining with browser and I know that it’s nkt worth doing it after seeing the power of computer is lot lesser than expected. Plus the hitting issue is always there.

I’m 100% sure that there are many more faucets which anonymously do synchronise your hash power. This can be clearly felt when you working on that faucet and it heat up the computer a lot. Try it and you will see it.

[Cryptoman69]

Why you need more mining if you can invest in another option to earn bitcoin at Freebitco.in. You can make or join to there option example ij HI and LOW or Lottery you just need to accept that you can win or you can loss. But in all fauset you are sure to legally and safe in Freebitco.in and not a scam not like other sites or apps.

[madwica]

Mining in browser is not profitable it is giving you small amount of satoshi and it cant compensate the consumption of electricity, much better to invest and hold your bitcoin in freebitco.in to get the daily interest. Also if you are risk taker you will do rolling dice game and if you are too lucky you will earn much better income.

[TheQuin]

Mining in browser is not profitable it is giving you small amount of satoshi and it cant compensate the consumption of electricity,

You would only know that if you were to download a hardware monitor like https://www.hwinfo.com/ to find out how much extra electricity your CPU was consuming during the mining process and then calculate the cost versus how much Bitcoin you earned. From the testing that I did if you are using a reasonably modern desktop PC that would be switched on anyway and have average electricity prices it will be profitable.

[Captain_Planet]

I dont think it will be worth what you get in a return after that much of a use of your resources. I prefer not to do that.

[Lane11]

I cant mine on my PC anymore for some reason. For 2 weeks NOD antivirus was blocking it with trojan warning & today I finally can get to mining page put cant input my ID in it. And its same thing on all browsers I use on this PC... I wonder if its an issue related to VPN  I use or something else. Because on other PC which has no NOD & no VPN mining works just fine.  I do use a link which is provided with my ID but mining shows ID 0 & no mining for me. Any help pls?

[TheQuin]

I cant mine on my PC anymore for some reason. For 2 weeks NOD antivirus was blocking it with trojan warning & today I finally can get to mining page put cant input my ID in it. And its same thing on all browsers I use on this PC... I wonder if its an issue related to VPN  I use or something else. Because on other PC which has no NOD & no VPN mining works just fine.  I do use a link which is provided with my ID but mining shows ID 0 & no mining for me. Any help pls?

Are you using the link https://mining.freebitco.in/mining.html?userid=xxxxxx where xxxxxx is your user ID?

Also, Windows Defender blocks mining so you should check that and add it to the exceptions list. Hope it helps.

[jak3]

From my point of view is surprising that you can even some Satoshi browser mining in the current generation. I think checking another faucet will be much more worth then your browser mining. The current mining difficulty of Bitcoin is so much higher than even expensive machines and not profitable and only very high Investments can get you a profitable machine so I will say clearly NO to this. Don't waste your time you can probably end up by "screwing your computer up".

[marketone]

Through browser mining we are getting very less amount and it is not completely not worth able. Sometimes it may damage computer we have to be very careful while mining through free bitcoin.

[Lane11]

I cant mine on my PC anymore for some reason. For 2 weeks NOD antivirus was blocking it with trojan warning & today I finally can get to mining page put cant input my ID in it. And its same thing on all browsers I use on this PC... I wonder if its an issue related to VPN  I use or something else. Because on other PC which has no NOD & no VPN mining works just fine.  I do use a link which is provided with my ID but mining shows ID 0 & no mining for me. Any help pls?

Are you using the link https://mining.freebitco.in/mining.html?userid=xxxxxx where xxxxxx is your user ID?

Also, Windows Defender blocks mining so you should check that and add it to the exceptions list. Hope it helps.

yes exactly & I'm also logged in on my account. Still the mining page shows ID 0 & no mining for me... I dont have Windows Defender on just Nod antivirus

[jak3]

Of course yes, it is much more worthy but only if you want to destroy your PC. I can give you hundred percent guarantee that if you run that thing for a month new PC and you will go to a lot of problems and even can face a serious damage to your PC. Do not think that running it in a background is going to give you any pocket money or something because normal PC does not have powers to mine anything even if it mines like  20 Satoshi then I will say surfing other faucets are better than that.

[TheQuin]

Of course yes, it is much more worthy but only if you want to destroy your PC. I can give you hundred percent guarantee that if you run that thing for a month new PC and you will go to a lot of problems and even can face a serious damage to your PC.

I can give 100% guarantee that you are talking utter rubbish. Can you cite one single example of a processor being damaged by the act of processing?

[Lane11]

Of course yes, it is much more worthy but only if you want to destroy your PC. I can give you hundred percent guarantee that if you run that thing for a month new PC and you will go to a lot of problems and even can face a serious damage to your PC. Do not think that running it in a background is going to give you any pocket money or something because normal PC does not have powers to mine anything even if it mines like  20 Satoshi then I will say surfing other faucets are better than that.

i guess you have no idea how pc works

[nosf]

i'm having this exact problem.
can anyone use browser mining these days?

I cant mine on my PC anymore for some reason. For 2 weeks NOD antivirus was blocking it with trojan warning & today I finally can get to mining page put cant input my ID in it. And its same thing on all browsers I use on this PC... I wonder if its an issue related to VPN  I use or something else. Because on other PC which has no NOD & no VPN mining works just fine.  I do use a link which is provided with my ID but mining shows ID 0 & no mining for me. Any help pls?

Are you using the link https://mining.freebitco.in/mining.html?userid=xxxxxx where xxxxxx is your user ID?

Also, Windows Defender blocks mining so you should check that and add it to the exceptions list. Hope it helps.

yes exactly & I'm also logged in on my account. Still the mining page shows ID 0 & no mining for me... I dont have Windows Defender on just Nod antivirus

[Sanu Simon]

I don't find anything perfect with browser mining. All that happening with browser based mining is really impossible to achieve. Same is the fact with mobile phones. Better not to get into these kind of mining and focus on using specialized equipment for the purpose of mining.

[ethereumhunter]

I don't want to risk my computer for doing browser mining and I think it is not recommended. but I will choose to play with the faucet only since it is an easy to play and no need to risk my computer. I think you need to find your self if you don't know with something but you need to know about the risk that might be makes your computer in damage.

[TheQuin]

I don't want to risk my computer for doing browser mining and I think it is not recommended. but I will choose to play with the faucet only since it is an easy to play and no need to risk my computer. I think you need to find your self if you don't know with something but you need to know about the risk that might be makes your computer in damage.

There is no risk to your computer. The act of processing does not harm a processor. Modern computers have systems in place to prevent overheating by first reducing the frequency and then an auto cutout before reaching a point that could cause harm.

[Quidat]

I don't want to risk my computer for doing browser mining and I think it is not recommended. but I will choose to play with the faucet only since it is an easy to play and no need to risk my computer. I think you need to find your self if you don't know with something but you need to know about the risk that might be makes your computer in damage.

There is no risk to your computer. The act of processing does not harm a processor. Modern computers have systems in place to prevent overheating by first reducing the frequency and then an auto cutout before reaching a point that could cause harm.

I totally agree on this one which computer or modern pc nowadays wont really be affected too much on saying to a point that would directly harm your system unit. It might maxed out the processing power but not coming to a point that it would bust up but somehow it would really limit you into things that you do like to do since using all power wont give you the space on doing any other task.
Giving harm or not but i dont really like to use up my cpu power for just not really worth browser mining.

[Lane11]

i'm having this exact problem.
can anyone use browser mining these days?

I cant mine on my PC anymore for some reason. For 2 weeks NOD antivirus was blocking it with trojan warning & today I finally can get to mining page put cant input my ID in it. And its same thing on all browsers I use on this PC... I wonder if its an issue related to VPN  I use or something else. Because on other PC which has no NOD & no VPN mining works just fine.  I do use a link which is provided with my ID but mining shows ID 0 & no mining for me. Any help pls?

Are you using the link https://mining.freebitco.in/mining.html?userid=xxxxxx where xxxxxx is your user ID?

Also, Windows Defender blocks mining so you should check that and add it to the exceptions list. Hope it helps.

yes exactly & I'm also logged in on my account. Still the mining page shows ID 0 & no mining for me... I dont have Windows Defender on just Nod antivirus

I still cant mine its been over 2 or 3 months for me on my main PC. Contacted support = no reply

[TheQuin]

I still cant mine its been over 2 or 3 months for me on my main PC. Contacted support = no reply

It works fine for everyone else so it must be a problem at your end. As I already said antivirus and Windows Defender will block it unless you add it as an exception. Other than that your firewall may also be blocking it.

[Lane11]

I still cant mine its been over 2 or 3 months for me on my main PC. Contacted support = no reply

It works fine for everyone else so it must be a problem at your end. As I already said antivirus and Windows Defender will block it unless you add it as an exception. Other than that your firewall may also be blocking it.

I can only make it work in Tor browser...

[TheQuin]

I can only make it work in Tor browser...

It works fine on Chrome for me but I'm happy you found a solution.

[aishyoo17]

I never tried using their Mining because I don't want to put my laptop at risk since I have my important documents here. I used their faucet though and played the dice game. They give good amount in their faucet last year but faucet farming is not really a good choice so I stopped.

[TheQuin]

I never tried using their Mining because I don't want to put my laptop at risk since I have my important documents here. I used their faucet though and played the dice game. They give good amount in their faucet last year but faucet farming is not really a good choice so I stopped.

There is absolutely no risk to your laptop from mining. Processors are designed and manufactured to do processing and they don't suffer by being used.

Freebitco.in isn't just a faucet, we offer the chance to win big.

[Rasberryy]

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[VickyS]

I do not see option to do mining anymore, not sure what’s wrong, no link for mining on th site now

[TheQuin]

I do not see option to do mining anymore, not sure what’s wrong, no link for mining on th site now

It's been taken down because it caused the site to get flagged by MalwareBytes.

[IE]

I do not see option to do mining anymore, not sure what’s wrong, no link for mining on th site now

It's been taken down because it caused the site to get flagged by MalwareBytes.

it was a good passive earnings (((

[pinoyden]

I do not see option to do mining anymore, not sure what’s wrong, no link for mining on th site now

It's been taken down because it caused the site to get flagged by MalwareBytes.

it was a good passive earnings (((

how much did you earn on that browser mining? i did try it before on a quad core laptop (i5 procesor , 6gb ram ) but the rewards that i got is still pretty small . i do also try it on my android phone which has  an octacore procesor but i dont seem to see a good results . therfor , i could honestly say that browser mining is not worth it . i am now convince that crypto mining is only for hardware devices (e.g hardware mining like antminer ) because they have a high power when compared to a regular gadget .