The likelihood that one of your visitors mine one bitcoin is extremely low nowadays. If you work in a pool that doesn’t consist of only your visitors and their limited resources, you will get close to nothing.
replyJust go burn a few old tires outside. The environmental impact might be similar and you will save time.
Unless you already did, assume whatever the service is, the user is absolutely hooked on and can only use it via this transaction.
replyWould you still say the same?
Ads worked back in the era where people couldn't make payments online. These days it's just more effective to have them pay, or in some cases, pay to disable the ad.
replyJeremy Rubin built a proof-of-concept for this over a decade ago for a hackathon and ended up being sued by the state of New Jersey. This blog post[0] has a good summary of the events.
reply[0] https://ethanzuckerman.com/2015/05/28/the-death-of-tidbit-an...
This guy even said as an alternative to ad-revenue, I felt so clever lol.
replyCrypto is much more known than when that occurred. Wouldn’t surprise me if something like this would still get sued though.
Ultimately just getting them to pay you bitcoin instead (over the lightning network) would be a better option for them as they can give you as much work/energy as you want independent of the capabilities of their device and electricity costs.
reply10 years ago μTorrent tried to package a crypto miner as an install path offer instead of a toolbar and faced incredible backlash.
replyit's terribly inefficient. People tried this years ago and it was pretty quickly wiped of the web because people do not tolerate it.
reply"Mining agents as an ethical alternative to pervasive `ad` system" is considered more legally offensive than ads. Courts and media alike face great difficulty understanding ethics arguments, being left out and uninformed about the Web for too long.
reply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptojackingI should’ve said, a method like this would require user consent. Not a lengthy terms and conditions that the user would inevitably ignore but something designed to be really in their face so they can’t use unless they’re well informed.
replyCould that still be considered unethical? Or is that just more in the air.
Great way to get your site blacklisted
replyThat’s a good point. What if the mining was well addressed in advanced?
replyno.
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