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That seems like the worst of all worlds. Mining on a desktop computer just barely works, but I'll be damned if I want my laptop's fan to spin up all the time ju

by iSnow 11y ago

That seems like the worst of all worlds. Mining on a desktop computer just barely works, but I'll be damned if I want my laptop's fan to spin up all the time just so I can tip some web site. And I absolutely don't want my mobile to die on me daily because the bitcoin mining drains the battery. And considering the current BTC price, I'd burn like $3 for every $1 gained. Someone come up with a service where you push money to (so any security breach is limited to the $20 or whatever you keep there) and then have a browser plugin that reacts to a payment challenge (either HTTP 402 or some meta-tag) and presents me with a native chrome button that can't be spoofed by site JS. And add a whitelisting option for something like The Guardian where I currently pay a monthly fee.

oska 11y ago
> Mining on a desktop computer just barely works You would not be mining on a computer's CPU (or GPU). You would be mining on a dedicated ASIC chip (that is already in production). > And I absolutely don't want my mobile to die on me daily because the bitcoin mining drains the battery. Which I why I specified in my comment that you could limit the mining chip to running only when the device is plugged into the wall (e.g. when you charge the battery overnight).
konschubert 11y ago
I was once attempting to write something like this and had a test version up. Here is the repo: https://github.com/KonstantinSchubert/bitcoupon-public/ https://github.com/KonstantinSchubert/bitcoupon-public/ Somehow I got bored with debugging all the different components, but I still think it has a lot of potential.
kwhitefoot 11y ago
> Someone come up with a service where you push money to (so any security breach is limited to the $20 or whatever you keep there) That's how I use my Paypal account. I top it up occasionally by transferring money from my real bank. Paypal has usually the equivalent of about USD100 and it does NOT have my credit card number. I would be quite happy to use Paypal for micropayments but I haven't seen anything yet that works and asks for a small enough amount to qualify as micropayment.

by iSnow 11y ago

oska 11y ago

> Mining on a desktop computer just barely works You would not be mining on a computer's CPU (or GPU). You would be mining on a dedicated ASIC chip (that is already in production). > And I absolutely don't want my mobile to die on me daily because the bitcoin mining drains the battery. Which I why I specified in my comment that you could limit the mining chip to running only when the device is plugged into the wall (e.g. when you charge the battery overnight).

konschubert 11y ago

I was once attempting to write something like this and had a test version up. Here is the repo: https://github.com/KonstantinSchubert/bitcoupon-public/ https://github.com/KonstantinSchubert/bitcoupon-public/ Somehow I got bored with debugging all the different components, but I still think it has a lot of potential.

kwhitefoot 11y ago

> Someone come up with a service where you push money to (so any security breach is limited to the $20 or whatever you keep there) That's how I use my Paypal account. I top it up occasionally by transferring money from my real bank. Paypal has usually the equivalent of about USD100 and it does NOT have my credit card number. I would be quite happy to use Paypal for micropayments but I haven't seen anything yet that works and asks for a small enough amount to qualify as micropayment.