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I’ve been running a miner via coin-hive.com. The earnings are ridiculously low. With 5 ad slots, I make around $6 RPM. With coin-hive/monero, it's not even equivalent to $0.5. Unless you are a website with the page open for hours and you have millions of views, this does not even make sense.

Or maybe I am not doing this right.

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Yes this is what I calculated as well. Regular ads are still way more profitable - even if you somehow convince all your visitors to keep your page open 24/7.

Even coinhive admit that you can't use this to make real money.

If it's worth it depends on the site, your target audience and the ads you'd be allowed to show based on your content.

At this point, we (Coinhive) have paid out 992 XMR (about $89.000) to our users. We started this service 11 days ago.

$89.000 or $89,000?

This still doesn't clear things up (both "," and "." can be used as thousands and fractions separation symbol, depending on locale). A more international way is to use whitespace or nothing at all for thousands ($89 000 or $89000) and use "," or "." (depending on locale) for fractions only.

992 XMR is about $88000 ( https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/ ), so the 2nd one

Who says you have to do only one?

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