Paying with mining a website?

First. This would never work with Bitcoin. You would need a ASIC resistant algo such as Monero. And this is exactly what coinhive does.

However coinhive is now blocked as malware (as it should be).

I played with it for a bit and unless you are Reddit it would take forever to get a single payout. Mining in the browser is so very inefficient. And if you are on a phone or laptop it fucks your battery.

When I played with coinhive I spent a few days making sure some conditions were met if I would run it. If mobile… DO NOT RUN.. Batteries get killed running it. I also didn’t turn it on unless your were on the site for four consecutive hours. And I made you opt into it.

People did and the earnings were shit. Like totally not worth it. It would have taken a year to get ten bucks. Easier to just use buymeacoffee.. https://imgur.com/a/f6fqnbU

I’m not talking about a website with 100 visits… I talk about those with at least 1 million…..as far as I see, more visits you have more efficient the method is

The Pirate Bay gave this a go and the backlash was swift. It lasted less than a day.

Now anti-virus and ad-blockers are blocking the crypto stuff. It really should just not be done in a browser. It kills battery and wastes a fuckton of electricity.

I would look into how blocks work. Say if a person just hit up a page on your site for a minute they would not be able to complete a block so that visit would be worthless. If you could keep them on the page for around 10 minutes a average laptop might be able to find a block.