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by Theodores 4433 days ago
Mining bitcoins in javascript on someone else's computer. Surely it would be quicker to get the 386 computers out of the landfill and use them than to mine bitcoins in javascript remotely in some botnet of sorts.

I am intrigued. Can you send me a URL of somewhere that will mine bitcoins on my computer?

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I don't have any websites bookmarked that employ such scripts, but DuckingIt (tm) yields the following links on that topic:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0

http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable

https://github.com/progranism/Bitcoin-JavaScript-Miner

You should probably not embed such scripts into your website(s). If it's not illegal, it's certainly super shady, and an extremely inefficient method of mining bitcoins.

Quicker, probably :) but not cheaper! You can be as inefficient as you want if it's other people's resources you're wasting.