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No. Crypto miners have always been possible and WebGPU does not make them faster than they would be in WebGL 2 which has been available for a long time already.
by modeless 5y ago
No. Crypto miners have always been possible and WebGPU does not make them faster than they would be in WebGL 2 which has been available for a long time already.
- brrrrrm 5y agoI’m not up to date on the latest mining algorithms but is it true that they’re all embarrassingly parallel to the point the WebGPU makes no difference? Fast inter-thread communication is the big addition here.
- modeless 5y agoI guess it depends on the specific cryptocurrency. I don't think the big ones would benefit. Maybe some niche ones could see some kind of benefit, but making mining somewhat more efficient isn't going to change the incentives for drive by miners that much because efficiency doesn't matter when it's someone else's electricity you're wasting.