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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2017 22:54:42 EDT Mike Gerwitz
   PirateBay is using visitors' browsers to mine Bitcoin?
   
   The problem is that you're running untrusted code any time you visit some random website. This is hardly the worst thing that can happen to you. Actually, it's probably one of the least (except maybe to your battery life).
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 23:53:11 EDT lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      #BOTcoins
   2. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 02:28:51 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

      in reply to
      @mikegerwitz I heard this idea being thrown about ages ago as a financing model for websites instead of advertisement (but then suddenly mining crypto currencies stopped being economical with commodity hardware and it wasn't as good an idea anymore).
      1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2017 04:58:53 EDT Danyl Strype

         in reply to
         @mmn @mikegerwitz doesn't that depend on which #cryptocoin is used? Some projects like #FairCoin are trying to keep mining open to all