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Trading compute resources for a service is a much better proposition than trading my personal data or behavior for a service. This is interesting.
by devmunchies 9y ago
Trading compute resources for a service is a much better proposition than trading my personal data or behavior for a service. This is interesting.
- LyndsySimon 9y agoIf average CPM is $3, that's $0.003 per individual impression. A quick back-of-a-napkin calculation shows that at current Bitcoin price (~$4,600), you would have to mine for about 100 hours at 1 GH/s to match that. In reality, jsMiner is the only JavaScript Bitcoin mining utility of which I'm aware, and it only uses CPU. A modern machine's CPU is only going to yield a hashrate of 5 MH/s or so, which means you'd have to mine for them for 20,000 hours to equal the revenue generated by your eyes being exposed to a traditional ad. In short, your PC is too slow by several orders of magnitude to make this a viable replacement for traditional ads.