[KozmoNau7]

Paying for website access by needlessly wasting CPU power.

Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea, especially for laptop users.

[SubiculumCode]

I understand this point. But on the other hand, it is not necessarily wasting cpu power. It is converting CPU power to payment for content, as a type of seamless micropayment, not requiring punching in credit card numbers, 3rd parties, setting up accounts etc. Some browser-based standardization of a unit of cycles per view might be established. I don't know, just exploring. The current state of the internet kind of sucks in terms of privacy.

[KozmoNau7]

It's wasting CPU/GPU cycles and battery power, vastly more than would be used for a simple micropayment with actual currency.

I refuse to participate in the degradation of my devices' performance as "payment".

[SubiculumCode]

More than the current system of loading thousands of ad networks?

[KozmoNau7]

Same same.

I block ads with great prejudice and I'll block miners with equal prejudice.

Both are a waste of my bandwidth, my battery power and my attention.