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Wait. Why would you want web-based proof-of-work mining? Does this have a legitimate purpose, or is it all about forcing unsuspecting visitors to mine Bitcoin f

by rspeer 10y ago

Wait. Why would you want web-based proof-of-work mining? Does this have a legitimate purpose, or is it all about forcing unsuspecting visitors to mine Bitcoin for you?

drchickensalad 10y ago
For things that are DOS-sensitive
tromp 10y ago
The web page should only start the miner if the user is well informed and clicks a button to start it. Legitimate purposes include spam-proofing message boxes, as well as cryptocurrencies whose PoW is somewhat CPU friendly, such as those bottlenecked by DRAM latency.