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I think these JS miners are stealing ten cents of electricity to generate one cent of cryptocurrency.

That's the point of them. When the electricity is stolen from someone else and the generated coins go to you then all generated coins are profit. If they could generate one cent of cryptocurrency for less than one cent of electricity they'd just mine regularly.

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

The proof of work's intent is thus. For the most part, anyways. At equilibrium, the optimistic miners seem to always drive up difficulty beyond a neutral investment.

Capitalism is the most efficient economic system.

...which does not imply being optimal at every single level of analysis.

It's so efficient it consumes everything, even itself and the structure that keeps it in place.

I wonder if the miners get a better $/KWh than auto-playing video adverts?

It will if you use it to reward yourself as you build your own auto-playing video advertisement platform and crowdsource a rating system aimed at media moguls with high-end machines. You may even earn enough to one day party your electric bill.

And advertisements steal dollars worth of my time for fractions of a cent. I personally find this more justifiable.

He gets it.

The ratio is probably far worse than that.

I wonder how much monero he will mine from a post on the first page of hacker news about mining monero

Not being called Microsoft and having the rights to open source parts of Minecraft would dictate the answer to your question. But you assume I'm the one mining. And you know what they say about assumption?

In case anyone's interested, I wrote a piece on the Monero miner plus a couple of other 'miners' over here:

https://wpplugincheck.com/articles/we-tested-3-mining-plugin...

In my opinion, these things are way better than ads.

They also pay far less than ads. Also, let us not fool ourselves here, we are blocking both ads and miners.

They are perhaps better at forcing user to install adblockers?

I can generally tolerate ads, but when I notice laggy browsing and my laptop’s fan spinning up at max speed, I leave the site pretty quickly, or switch to adblocked browser.

I've seen ads freeze up my browser, but I have yet to see a miner do the same.

On top of that the miner is opt-out and (hopefully) throttled to 30% thread/cpu use (based on session and without cookie) and only while reliably detecting a page is actively in use.

When on desktop, I couldn't care less. But for mobile devices, it's a serious battery drain. And for old devices, it can make then intolerably slow.

Please drum up your settings menu and share with us if you don't mind the to three apps draining your battery if you don't mind.

What is the economics of monetizing content with in-browser mining? How much $ can one expect from X page views lasting Y minutes?

This is where the Brave browser and the BAT token come in.

The application of advertisements and the ad industry in general to crypto is IMO the antithesis of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto[^1]. What are your thoughts on this matter?

[1]: https://hackcabin.com/post/take-flight-monero-cli-wallet/pdf...

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