[jordigh]

While this is obviously malicious, I think I would favour paying for things with a few CPU cycles, as long as it was voluntary and overt.

Want to read this article? Please click here to mine a cryptocoin for 30 seconds. Great, thanks! Here's a cookie so we won't ask you again to mine for a whole month.

I would much rather have this than being shamed into looking at ads. It always struck me as utterly bizarre to be told that not wanting to see ads is somehow immoral.

[dingo_bat]

That may be fine on desktops but absolutely unacceptable on mobile and laptops, due to battery usage.

[jordigh]

Wouldn't be a payment if CPU cycles didn't have some scarcity.

My laptop would be fine with 30 seconds of a CPU spike, though. Most phones could probably also tolerate it.