JSECoin - Mining Crypto Currencies In (or With) Your Browser

dragosroua (74)in #news • 7 years ago (edited)

Now that's an interesting idea: instead of expensive hardware hashing meaningless numbers, why not putting some CPU power at work while a user is browsing your website? Think about it... Inserting a small JavaScript code that will take a bit of CPU cycles while your user is reading your latest blogpost, helping the network going on... Sounds too good to be true?

Maybe. But some guys already thought about it and launched a coin called JSECoin. I presume the "JS" part comes from JavaScript and I hope they won't have any issues with that. Anyway, you can find more info, including a White Paper, here.

The product is somewhere between an MVP and beta, with a strong penchant towards MVP. There are still a few rough edges but it seems the implementation does work. I installed it on a few websites I run (including steem.supply) and I will monitor them constantly to see how it's going.

If they will position themselves as an alternative way of monetizing content, complementary to AdSense, I can see an interesting path for them. If they grow enough, Google will be put in the position of either marginalize them brutally, or buy them, which will then mark Google's debut as a player in the cryptocurrency area.

You can join it here, they also have a referral program (disclaimer: this link is an aff link).

The times, they are changing.

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