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Show HN: Crypto Mining for non-profits on the Browser
- Philomath 9y agoHi! One of the 3 programmers here :). We made this for a 36h hackathon (Hack The North). There is still 9 hours until demos but we thought sharing and having some people try it out before would be awesome! We have the Firefox plugin pending revision (will tell soon when they accept), and the Chrome plugin fully working. We used Coinhive [1] JavaScript Miner and HTTP API. We have a nodejs server, a website and the plugin itself. We would really appreciate feedback! [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246145
- ChrisGranger 9y agoI haven't run the numbers, but my suspicion is that it would be more effective (both financially and environmentally) to simply donate your money to charity. I'm thinking of older, inefficient hardware that winds up using more money in electricity than the mined coins are even worth.
- Philomath 9y agoYou are right, it is less efficient. The thing is people don't do the donations, but they are willing to have this process in the background because they don't even realise it's there.