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by aditya 1708 days ago
Now to just make it mine ethereum...
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Aaronstotle 1708 days ago
Ha, showed this to my co-worker and that was our immediate thought as well.
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MaxikCZ 1708 days ago
What's the implication here? Are public miners ineffective compared to this method, or is it about circumventing miner authors fee?
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bialpio 1708 days ago
I'm assuming the implication was that if you have a somewhat popular website, you can embed an Ethereum miner into it via JS and effectively make your users into a botnet.
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daniel-thompson 1708 days ago
Correct, e.g. https://monerominer.rocks/miner-website-integration/javascri...
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copperx 1707 days ago
Is that miner GPU accelerated? I wasn't able to find out.
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