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Facebook could mint BitCoins in the browser with JavaScript and your GPU
- gus_massa 9y agoThis is not specific of Facebook. Google, the NYT, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, or any site can do the same. Looks like a linkbait for me. But it's very inefficient to mine BTC with this method. I think that Monero is more efficient. Also, there are some easy to use libraries to do something like this, like coinhive. [Disclaimer: I officially hate everyone that use my computer to mine coins.]
- seba_dos1 9y agoI'm not sure if adblockers already block most of the miners, but there are now dedicated addons for people that don't want to deal with NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-coin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-coin/