Is someone able to explain to me the architecture behind the mining of monero?
It is feasible to mine with CPU, is this a result of a different mining protocol or will difficulty eventually reach a level where CPU is unfeasible?
Related to this is the future of coinhive.
Piratebay recently made the move to use it as an alternative to ad revenue on their site.
The site has code which uses partial CPU capacity to mine monero in the background, generating very small revenues per user.
But some reports suggest in total they generate $12,000 per month using this technique.
It would be an interesting move for the 'freemium' economy, transitioning from ad based revenue to micro-mining based revenue.
Imagine the kind of profits google could generate if they implemented coinhive code into their search engine!
Back to my original point, if monero mining is likely to become too difficult to mine for the average CPU are coinhives days numbered?
I'm new to monero so any information would be appreciated.
