Embeddable Bitcoin Miner for Websites

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

by dnadolny • 15 years ago

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orangecat2• 15 years ago

Wow. I'd like a list of sites that use this, so that I know to never do business with them.

dnadolny6• 15 years ago

Can I ask why?

The way I see it, websites with advertisements use your mind (by grabbing your attention). This only uses your computer. Which would you rather have a website try to take over?

rudiger• 15 years ago

You really think you'll get effective monetization out of a Bitcoin miner that's written in JavaScript and only run on people's short one-minute visits to a website?

Bitcoin mining is orders of magnitude more efficient on a GPU than on a CPU, and that's compared to the fastest C++ clients, not something running in a JavaScript interpreter. Maybe a popular installable game that's played for hours at a time and uses people's excess GPU to mine Bitcoin could be profitable. But this is just a waste of everyone's time.

adrianwaj4• 15 years ago

I'd show some stats on the website, like how much mined in previous 24hrs, how much the individual pc is contributing, other sites that run the widget.

Make the user feel appreciated.

Give them the option to turn it off, or throttle down. Check out the Wibiya toolbar and how that can be switched off. Build a network.

Also, consider making the mining as part of a captcha mechanism.

dnadolny6• 15 years ago

I've made an option to add controls, which shows the current hashrate and a start/stop button. Right now it's up to the websites using it to enable that if they want to.

I like the captcha idea, I've actually been planning something like that. I've got some changes I need to make to my infrastructure before I can do that, but I'm hoping to do it (or let other people do it with the API I'm going to offer).

Thanks for the advice about making the user feel appreciated, I think that's quite important.

adrianwaj4• 15 years ago

You've got to keep your eye out on how to access the full power of the client's GPU. I just saw how IE9 and FF4 offer GPU acceleration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VLB4DcXhg

Also, when the user is scrolling the page can you throttle down, so basically the idea is not detract from the user experience. On-demand throttling down somehow. Maybe when a tab is not visible.

Embeddable Bitcoin Miner for Websites

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