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Bear in mind that this will net the creator a few cents a day (if that even), and burn thousands of dollars in power for their clients. This wasn't economical i

by nwh 13y ago

Bear in mind that this will net the creator a few cents a day (if that even), and burn thousands of dollars in power for their clients. This wasn't economical in 2011 and it's sure as hell not economical now. I'd be pretty pissed off is websites started eating my CPU and battery just to make such a pitiful amount of revenue. To put this in perspective, for $5 you can buy a USB ASIC miner that will do 335MH/s, worth tens of thousands of full time JavaScript clients.

wyager 13y ago
I don't think you can get a USB ASIC for $5. They're still in the tens of dollars range.
- nwh 13y ago
  For new ones sure, but there's people selling used ones for a lot less. There's cheaper Bitfury based ones now anyway, so I can't imagine why anybody would spend their money so unwisely.