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Hope this helps illustrate the point: That $250,000 every month amount was made at the cost of way more than $250,000 worth of electricity.
by bitxbitxbitcoin 8y ago
Hope this helps illustrate the point:
That $250,000 every month amount was made at the cost of way more than $250,000 worth of electricity.
- entelia09 8y agoBut it wasn't coinhive or coinhive's users who were paying for it. Website visitors carried the cost...
- JshWright 8y agoWe were all paying for it...
- nukemandan 8y agoBut the cost to remove ads here is very worth spending that electricity over my attention.
- criddell 8y agoWhat about the environmental and other external costs? I run an ad blocker most of the time because crappy ads and ad-tech uses a lot of bandwidth and battery. Crypto-mining is even worse for power consumption.
- Scoundreller 8y agoAnd website visitors may have gotten website content that wouldn't have existed otherwise. We wouldn't have as much web content as we do today if it weren't for web advertising. (Just another form of payment).