Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner 490
An anonymous reader writes "There's a popular discussion happening at the Bitcoin forums about a new browser-based bitcoin miner released today. This lets people mine for bitcoin straight from the browser. There's talk of making an embeddable version. How long until websites start using CPU power from their users to create Bitcoin for their owners?" As Bitcoin gets more attention, I foresee malware with payloads promising to do the same thing.
Re:Still wondering... (Score:2, Funny)
This [theonion.com] is fairly relevant.
Re:Still wondering... (Score:5, Funny)
Arrr. Pieces of eight (decimal places.)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Bitcoin... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a sales pitch (Score:5, Funny)
What's this thing with regular promotion of bitcoins on /.? Shouldn't it be in advertising box or something?
They tried to, but real advertising costs real money. A slashvetisement on the other hand can be purchased with bitcoins.
Re:Sounds like a sales pitch (Score:4, Funny)
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disable the browser based Bitcoin Miner.
Correct me if I am wrong here (Score:5, Funny)