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

[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:

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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!

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
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[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.