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

[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

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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.