“The miner itself does not come with a UI – it”s your responsibility to tell your users what”s going on and to provide stats on mined hashes,” the documentation reads. “Your users run the miner directly in their Browser and mine XMR for you in turn for an ad-free experience, in-game currency or whatever incentives you can come up with.”Īs reported by Torrentfreak, when users noticed an unusual spike in their CPU usage (and decided to inspect the website”s code), some were surprised to find that The Pirate Bay had unceremoniously started using visitors” computers to mine Monero cryptocurrency – without their consent.Ĭoinhive offers a disclaimer of sorts with the mining tool’s documentation: “Coinhive offers a JavaScript miner for the Monero Blockchain that you can embed in your website,” reads the tool”s description. Using a dedicated tool developed by a company named Coinhive, The Pirate Bay on Saturday decided to start a bold new monetization initiative that would presumably free the torrent tracker”s site of pesky ads. Cryptocurrency is designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to both secure transactions and create additional currency units. Many users, though, have complained that the site “borrowed” their computers to mine virtual money without permission.Ĭryptocurrency is a virtual currency whose value grows as more computers join the public ledger and lend their processing power to unlock transaction records, or blocks.
Torrent site The Pirate Bay is testing a cryptocurrency miner that uses visitors” computers to generate revenue.
0 kommentar(er)
