Hello William!

I really like the idea... in fact we implemented this the coinhive service on Comprendre-Steem.fr since we do not want to annoy our visitor with ads (we are also targeting a crypto-oriented community which helps).

Futhermore, the implementation of such a service is really fast and easy. It does not really requires a lot of expertise and can be added to any website.

However, I really think users need to be aware of this in order consume in the way they see fit... one could leave the page open to help the media, others might choose to close the page as soon as they finish to read.

Anyway this is a very interesting alternative to micro-payment and subscription based solutions the medias have been using until now (but do not really work apparently).