> I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop. Coinhive was live from 2017 - 2019, and it bas

> I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop. Coinhive was live from 2017 - 2019, and it basically ran the whole course from exciting new tech to widely abused to dead over those two years. I don't think it needed more time. > The hacked site boogieman felt overblown... Troy Hunt acquired several of the Coinhive domains in 2021 -- two years after the service shut down -- and it was still getting hundreds of thousands of requests a day, mostly from compromised web sites and/or infected routers. It was a serious problem, albeit one which mostly affected smaller and poorly maintained web sites. https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres-how-im-fighting-cryptojacking-and-doing-good-things-with-content-security-policies/ https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres...