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Things like this make me fear banner ads mining bitcoins (not that they aren't already).
by snarfy 9y ago
Things like this make me fear banner ads mining bitcoins (not that they aren't already).
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- daxfohl 9y agoI'd think pegging CPU/GPU at 99% would be even more of a turn off than banner ads. Especially on mobile where it'd drain your battery. Interesting thought though. I wonder if Windows or MacOS had some hidden process that did bitcoin mining at ~5% CPU, how much that would be worth worldwide.
- daxfohl 9y agoOkay, Bill Gates alone is worth more than twice all the bitcoin ever mined. Apple is worth almost 20x that. So, per risk/reward, probably not a great strategy for either company. https://howmuch.net/articles/worlds-money-in-perspective https://howmuch.net/articles/worlds-money-in-perspective.
- haimez 9y agoPlease adjust your equations for time.
- adventured 9y agoAdjusting to the Gates or Apple timeline doesn't get you anywhere. Bitcoin won't exist in 30 years.
- someguydave 9y agoWhy not? It has defied such predictions for several years now.
- daxfohl 9y agoMeaning? MSFT and AAPL have proved enduring returns over decades, and ... is a flash in the pan? So adjusting over time means what?
- urethrafranklin 9y agoLOL, buttcoin is deflationary.
- 52-6F-62 9y ago--- Sorry if this is too far off topic --- This makes me find it funny that the Brave browser purposefully blocks all ads by default, seemingly without much negative recourse to the end user -- not directly, anyway. edit: Point being the browser that capitalizes off of blockchain virtual currencies/tokens would purposefully block such a sneaky device. Companies who want to advertise through the browser's ecosystem have to purchase the company's tokens on the Ethereum public chain and the end user has to OK viewing ads on sites they visit regularly in order for those publishers to see returns and the user doesn't have to OK anything at all. The browser capitalizes off of publishers/content providers who don't want to lose ad views, and the user base grows because of the late and growing public desire for privacy and dismissal of unwanted rampant advertising that is sometimes even quite inappropriate. ---- All that said, I'm quite excited to try this out, too. Due to my regular dev workflow in JS I'm looking forward to it being published to NPM, so it can more easily be used as a module and bundled for the odd front end project/experiment.
- na85 9y agoThis is why I use ublock and noscript. Fuck advertising.
- drngdds 9y agoNitpick: Bitcoins can't effectively be mined on anything but specialized ASIC hardware. Not even high-end GPUs. They could theoretically mine other cryptocurrencies, though.
- cestith 9y agoNitpick of your nitpick: GPU and even CPU can mine Bitcoin. It's considered ineffective because of the power consumption and hardware time relative to the value (and compared to what custom ASICs can do once you've made that investment) makes it prohibitively expensive for the returns one gets. If it was being mined on other people's power and time it's more effective than not mining at all and you'd not be paying for the power or hardware time. Etherium or Litecoin would be more effectively mined that way than Bitcoin, but anything you're getting for free is free. Of course the ethical and moral implications here are very negative.