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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. Re:Bitcoin - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bitcoin network charts:

    In the last 12 days "There are 201 unconfirmed transactions".

    That's not an "economy" by any means. Your average American highschool probably has more kids purchasing drugs, smokes, and booze from one another in a 12 day time period than that.

  2. Re:Getting you at the exit nodes by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's where they'll get you. Or Visa/Mastercard will stop processing for wherever bitcoin.org is hosted after a friendly call from a Senator.

    Bitcoin.org could be lawyered right off the face of the Earth and it wouldn't make any difference. You'd still be able to trade BTC for USD (or vice versa) with any of the thousands of other Bitcoin owners. It's all P2P, remember?

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