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by smokeyj 3004 days ago
You could just point the miner at another pool and keep 100% of the shares. Cutting out CoinHive is trivially simple.

I really don't get the problem though. Someone's website is hacked and points to coinhive, and we want coinhive to fix it? This is why we can't have nice things.
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s73v3r_ 3004 days ago
We want Coinhive to not benefit from it.
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smokeyj 3004 days ago
Browser mining is basically worthless. If they're running a pool then they have to pay server usage to validate low value shares. I'm not sure CoinHive is even economically viable.

Meanwhile, Google - the multi billion dollar public company, is the one distributing this script through online ads..

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