[dsacco]

This idea has been tried before (https://hashcash.io/). Question for the developers:

1. How is this attempt different from HashCash, aside from using Monero?

2. What are you going to do if and when people develop counter strategies to bypass having to do the work?

[dvdhnt]

> 1. How is this attempt different from HashCash, aside from using Monero?

I've never heard of either service, so I checked out both. One big difference between the two is that I knew pretty quickly what Coinhive was and how to use it, but I could never figure out what the heck HashCash does. I suspect if I clicked on one of their many "buy access to the API" links I may get more info, but that's not very cool.

[rihegher]

to answer to question 2: I guess they could limit hash rate result by IP address.

[TeMPOraL]

I think GP is talking about the case in which people kill off the mining script, so that it doesn't mine, after the side loads. I.e. ad-block for sneaky cryptocoin miners.

[rihegher]

Indeed I did not understand it in that way, It took so long for adblock to be a thing that I think it is a non issue for now.