Introduction

All the websites we know, such as Google, Youtube, Facebook, Yahoo, etc., obtain their benefits mainly through advertising. It is certain that you, dear reader, have found these annoying ads on the side of the page promoting some product or service. It is thanks to these ads that not only websites survive but also content generators or authors.

This type of service is intrusive, as it has to affect the experience of the user or visitor. There are still websites that make use of the famous pop-up ads, which prevent the user from navigating normally on a web page. Many times even malware are introduced through them. This resulted in browsers today, come with extensions that control or remove ads.

So much has been the use of blockers that today, there are pages that do not allow reading until the ad blocker is deactivated from the browser. However, most users choose to leave. This reduces the resources obtained from the ads.

The Gath3r team, aware of this problem and with the rise of crypto coins in 2017, decided to create an alternative to generating income to encourage websites and authors, without disturbing or harming the user or visitor.

Gath3r. Web Browser Mining

Gath3r develops a new technology to harness the computational power of the CPU or GPU of the browsers of users visiting websites, to undermine cryptocurrencies. Without disturbing the visual experience of the user and without draining the resources of your desktop or mobile computer. In this way, Gath3r offers website owners and content producers a means to profit.

This technology has great potential due to the size of the total addressable market (TAM) of the websites (about 2,500,000,000) as can be seen in the following image.

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CoinHive and JSE Coin, were the first to use javascript routines to use websites as an alternative to crypto-mining, making use of users' browsers. But, his experience has overshadowed the use of these routines, mainly due to malware and also most of the time these routines are executed without the authorization of visitors, thus originating that blockers such as AdBlock Plus and AdGuard, added support to block all such intrusions and mines.

Gath3r offers a secure, totally transparent way, that is, with the consent of the visiting users to offer a new source of income to the owners of the websites. This would reduce the dependency on advertisements on the pages, allowing a better perspective for the visiting user. In addition, it offers alternatives so that also the visiting users obtain a profit in their visits based on a loyalty program.

Loyalty Program & Web-Based Staking wallet

Gath3r has a program to encourage the loyalty of users, giving them the opportunity to make profits while browsing the pages that have the mining service. This service is configured by the owners of the websites and can enable a 5% profit to improve user loyalty.

In addition to this, Gath3r has developed a ticket for both web and mobile participation devices, which allows to automatically receive the profits received, both for owners and for visiting users. This type of wallet allows you to earn interest while keeping the coins.

Best of all, Gath3r lets users control the private keys of their wallets. In this way, they have control and security of their assets.

Merge Mining

The Gath3r blockchain allows you to mine another type of coin through auxiliary strings based on the same mining algorithm. In this way Gath3r contributes to the decentralized character of the blockchains.

Smart Contract

Gath3r will introduce smart contracts to its infrastructure along with auxiliary chains to enable the unification of blockchains and masternode private networks, thus creating greater interoperability.

Mastenodes and Lite nodes

The basic structure will be formed by a lite chain formed on the web layer, which the main mining tool and the heavy part will be in charge of the masternodes. Dedicated servers 24/7/365 connected to the blockchain to ensure a layer of stability, increase the speed of transactions and allow the execution of Gather services. All information will be sent encrypted between the nodes.

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Gather Foundation

Part of the capital collected by the platform will be destined to the foundation, its purpose will be to promote and maintain the platform constantly evolving, to encourage developers and provide support to projects developed to expand the functionality of the platform. Most of the foundation will be controlled by the majority of stakeholders.

Benefits of Gath3r

The benefits offered by this ecosystem are:

• Transparency. Unlike other web mining services, Gath3r allows users to activate the mining service when visiting a web page, so they can decide whether or not they want to use the resources of their computers or mobile phones to perform mining while browsing the website.

• Improve user experience. The use of Gath3r applications will allow website owners to generate their own profit in cryptocurrencies and thus reduce advertising ads, making the experience more enjoyable for their visitors by not saturating them with intrusive advertising.

• Enhanced user loyalty. Gath3r allows the user to gain or visitor to gain part of the profits mined by the website. This increases web traffic and generates higher profits through mining.

Use-Case

There are many ways to take advantage of this platform's technology

Charity / Donation

Many nonprofit organizations and foundations that fight for the environment and others that offer help and benefits to many people in other countries where resources are scarce, can adopt or make use of Gath3r's web-based mining technology to self-finance their projects and programs. Thus an organization such as Greenpeace can enable this option on its website, so visiting users who don’t have money to contribute directly, could help in their mission of protecting the environment by constantly visiting the website and thus help mine cryptocurrencies to fund the resources of the organization.

Content Websites & Blogs

Content generators who want to keep their own websites active can make use of this technology by adding a web mining service to cover hosting costs and continue to offer a quality website content without disturbing visitors with intrusive advertisements.

Mobile Game Apps

The mobile applications games are generally invaded by advertisements that end up tiring the user and in the end, they decide to abandon these games. With Gath3r, it will no longer be necessary for games to stop to show advertisements. Better yet, they can attract the attention of many players by allowing them to earn money while playing.

Conclusion

Gath3r represents a disruptive technology that harnesses the power of blockchain and browser resources. This technology will be beneficial to all who are part of the Gath3r ecosystem: developers, stakeholders, website owners, authors and visitors. Since it will allow them to make money using the extra resources of browsers, this way they will be able to avoid advertisements that affect the experience of visitors, both on websites and mobile applications. It's a win-win experience for everyone involved.

Annexes

Gath3r Introductory Video