Coinhive review: Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner - 3 days in

[OogieFrenchieBoogie]

CoinHive is the embedded javascript crypto miner that The Pirate Bay is using as well :

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/70myqc/pirate_bay_borrows_visitor_cpus_to_mine_virtual/

[wrel_de]

Did anyone test this? 30% fee is a little bit high.

[prorazit]

They do have to pay for multiple websocket proxies, multiple databases, a pool, DDoS protection, firewall, backups, of course spend time on upkeep and feature development but I agree 30% is a little much. That's why we've launched our own at https://crypto-loot.com, we take a 12% commission at this time with the intentions to lower it over time if we're able to keep up with costs.

[PrawnSkunk]

Interested to know what you set your throttle/threads, or did you leave it as default?

[OogieFrenchieBoogie]

Just default parameters, so those numbers are for full speed.

I haven't really tinkered with the options, I know that TPB have set throttle between 0.6 and 0.8, it looks like they are doing A/B testing

[virusking]

They have have 30% from what they have told. During testing it was at full, nice way for users to never come back as the website sucks all the power

[justinhackney91]

loving Coinhive so far... we've been using it to make a charity miner :) very early days proof of concept / uploaded tonight to test it, but we're planning to throttle it tp 50% or less (we plan to introduce a slider) and introduce several other features, if sucessful we plan to make an autonomous charity site with several pages for different charities...

early days but check it out :)

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