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

[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.