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Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner

Posted by timothy on from the b-b-but-the-feds-are-here! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a popular discussion happening at the Bitcoin forums about a new browser-based bitcoin miner released today. This lets people mine for bitcoin straight from the browser. There's talk of making an embeddable version. How long until websites start using CPU power from their users to create Bitcoin for their owners?" As Bitcoin gets more attention, I foresee malware with payloads promising to do the same thing.

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  1. Bitcoin - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bitcoin Slashvertisements remind me too much of Glen Beck's gold hocking. Have fun with that.

    1. Re:Bitcoin - by naz404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wow.

      You'll generate "0.00019867 bitcoins per hour" with this. It takes about 100-200 days nonstop to generate a single bitcoin with this if you're lucky.

      If a bitcoin is $8 now, even if let's say it rises to $20, that'd mean you burned hundreds of hours of CPU time/electricity to earn a mere $20 in 6 months.

      There are better things to burn your CPU time, electricity, bandwidth and attention on.

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  2. /vertisement by blackraven14250 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The level of slashvertisement on these things is seriously getting retarded. Stop publishing this crap!

  3. Re:Still wondering... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think most of the merchants that accept Bitcoin do so for the express purpose of giving it value.

  4. Re:Still wondering... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bitcoin is a stupid idea with excellent PR. Up to and including a weekly slashvertisement.

  5. Re:Still wondering... by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    betting on the future value of the currency, in order to profit in the future. Which is exactly what an entrepreneur is.

    No, that's what a speculator is.

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