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This isn't bitcoin. The mining is completely different.
by IncRnd 9y ago
This isn't bitcoin. The mining is completely different.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoYou're right. Monero is different. To mine Monero, you have to calculate hashes with an algorithm called Cryptonight. This algorithm is very compute heavy and – while overall pretty slow – was designed to run well on consumer CPUs. There are solutions to run the Cryptonight algorithm on a GPU instead, but the benefit is about 2x, not 10000x like for other algorithms used by Bitcoin or Ethereum. This makes Cryptonight a nice target for JavaScript and the Browser.