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How does this work?

• thinkMOAR 9y ago
  via javascript
• tyingq 9y ago
  See https://coinhive.com https://coinhive.com It mines Monero using JavaScript. Best suited for sites where you sit on one page for a long time, and where there's lots of visitors. Often, it turns out that it isn't the site owner doing it, but rather, they were hacked, and someone injected the JavaScript.
• gbrown_ 9y ago
  I would imagine they are loading some javascript to hijack users browsers. https://www.wired.com/story/cryptojacking-cryptocurrency-mining-browser/ https://www.wired.com/story/cryptojacking-cryptocurrency-min...