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by lweber 3012 days ago
The thing is, Pr0gramm users are not the people that add Coinhive scripts to hacked websites.

Before Coinhive was launched, users on Pr0gramm were able to activate mining and be rewarded with a premium account on the site. They weren't even forced to do so but were able to opt-in voluntarily.

So the relation between Coinhive and Pr0gramm merely is, that the people behind each website know each other and used Pr0gramm as a testbed for Coinhive before it became publicly available.