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Monero? Existing botnets earn $50,000/day mining on people's computers at night while finding ways to spread to additional ones. A single computer earns pennie
by ringaroundthetx 9y ago
Monero? Existing botnets earn $50,000/day mining on people's computers at night while finding ways to spread to additional ones.
A single computer earns pennies, a couple hundred thousand earn way more.
- chii 9y agoA customer base of hundreds thousands doing streaming will cost you way more than $50k/day.
- KGIII 9y agoIt doesn't have to completely cover the costs, only offset it some and be used in conjunction with other income generation methods. Personally, I don't mind it so long as it is both fully disclosed and the ramifications fully explained - both in an accessible manner to a layperson. So long as they do that, I'm okay with it. I'm more okay with it if they give the user a simple means to opt out in a meaningful fashion. Now, chances are exactly none of those conditions will be met in the real world. But, in principle, I am okay with it.
- flukus 9y agoUnless you just package it and let youtube do the actual streaming. Imagine creating "cat-videos.com" and embedding all the youtube videos into the site but providing a better UI for browsing them.
- chii 9y agoBut you'd get both ads and mining. The point of mining was to get rid of ads!
- yuhong 9y agoIt would be fun if AES-NI support was added to JavaScript engines, though it would need a standard.
- dexterdog 9y agoA single computer rarely even earns pennies.