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Pirate Bay trialed this but otherwise nobody is doing this at scale right now. The problem is that users will notice and the ROI is miniscule. Even if your user
by 6nf 9y ago
Pirate Bay trialed this but otherwise nobody is doing this at scale right now. The problem is that users will notice and the ROI is miniscule. Even if your users keep the miner running 24/7 you're nowhere near just regular old ads.
- drusepth 9y agoNot arguing with you, but I've seen a lot of people say this has very minimal ROI without giving any numbers. Do you happen to have any to share? Are you considering a higher relative investment based on an inconvenience to the user? I'd love to explore this idea in a more reasonable, less-sketchy, opt-in way, but I'm only just getting started with crypto and I'm not sure what factors go into estimating potential costs/returns yet.
- detaro 9y agoI calculated 2-5 US cents per 24 hours on an average-ish PC (my laptop was more towards 2, someone else quoted hashrates that would result in 5). (In the thread for the original Show HN for the code behind this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246145 )