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In any world in which work that a browser can do in a few seconds will make any appreciable amount of money, someone can make more money by throwing a server or
by JoshTriplett 7y ago
In any world in which work that a browser can do in a few seconds will make any appreciable amount of money, someone can make more money by throwing a server or GPU or dedicated hardware at it, and the browser's few seconds of work stops having value.
- Kiro 7y agoCoinhive mined Monero, which is ASIC resistant and where GPUs are only twice as efficient than CPUs. It's suited for browser mining. The browser shot the calculated hashes into a pool so it's not really about one browser vs. dedicated hardware. It's about a large quantity of browsers doing the work in parallel.