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Very interested to see if this could actually be an alternative to ad revenue.
by rgbrgb 15y ago
Very interested to see if this could actually be an alternative to ad revenue.
- Shamiq 15y agoAs they point out -- you would need a visitor to remain on any given page for a relatively long period of time. Works well for long-form content, but breaks down in shorter chunks. One thing I'm particularly interested in would be embedding this in a frame similar to stumbleupons web interface and allowing for revenue sharing with the user.
- gibybo 15y agoI don't think the fundamentals are sound here. Advertising spurs commerce, which creates value. This wastes electricity, slows down users' computers, and does no valuable computation. It seems closer to stealing from your users (with enormous inefficiency) than something that creates any real value.
- meric 15y agoBy your logic gold mining is overrated, too.
- HardyLeung 15y agoNot according to cost/benefit analysis.
- meric 15y agoWhat does that mean? You can do the same with bitcoin.
- vrotaru 15y agoA better analogy would have been a store owner mining gold in his background and asking customers to take out the waste away. Something like: - Since you're going out, anyway...
- justatdotin 15y agowell I believe it is :{)}
- HardyLeung 15y agoAmen. You spend, on average, say $1-$10 to acquire a customer, but you lose them in a dramatic, angry, disgusted fashion by trying to steal $0.000001 from them.
- zbanks 15y agoUsing http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php : On my computer (netbook running Chrome in Ubuntu), bitp.it clocks at 2.2khash/sec. Using this, I'll give 2000hash/sec/user as a conservative estimate. If you had 1M daily visits, averaging about 1 minute of interaction (high, but assuming you have long-form content), you'd have 12000Mhash/day, or about 2.77Mhash/sec. Plugging this in with current rates, this ends up being $0.08/day. For 1M views. This is about 3 orders of magnitude lower than just AdWords.
- HardyLeung 15y agoAnd you get tons of angry visitors.
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- csomar 15y agoThanks for making the math, now if we consider that JS is slower by a factor of 1000 than regular GPU (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566442 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566442), and browsers are soon to implement WebGL, then it becomes $80/day. And if it is a game and users stay on average for 10 minutes playing, that's $800 and you don't lose any resources on the server side, since it's a WebGL game. It starts to getting interesting. I would be more interested in a game that consume my GPU in the dark than a one that wants me to click an ad and bother me with it.
- cjg 15y agoPerhaps this means that bitcoin is currently undervalued by three orders of magnitude.
- rmc 15y agoOr that AdWords is three times as good as bitcoin for revenue generation.