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Even if they did this in all Starbucks locations, I can't see it really making any money. Ten seconds on a laptop CPU rounds to zero. Coinhive has just never
by ryangittins 9y ago
Even if they did this in all Starbucks locations, I can't see it really making any money. Ten seconds on a laptop CPU rounds to zero. Coinhive has just never made any sense to me in practice. Maybe 5+ years ago, but not today. What a mismatch of effort and timing.
- mipmap04 9y agoCoinhive seems pretty upfront with this though (to answer "Will this work on my site?": "Technically yes, economically probably not. If you run a blog that gets 10 visits/day, the payout will be miniscule. For the captcha and shortlinks with a sensible hash goal (1024–16384) you'll need to have a whole lot of users to make this worthwhile." I do like it as an accessibility friendly captcha system, though.
- 55555 9y agoCoinhash mines monero and it is a business aimed towards hackers who want to monetize websites they have access to.