Reply to post: Re: Hijack the hijack?

More and more websites are mining crypto-coins in your browser to pay their bills, line pockets

Ben Tasker

Re: Hijack the hijack?

You wouldn't want to run a Javascript miner, you'd want to get one written in C for greater efficiency, or better yet runs on a discrete GPU if you have one.

With Monero (which is what's being mined in most of these cases) there's very, very little advantage to using a GPU over a CPU - it was specifically designed to limit the advantage.

But, yes, a miner written in C (or in fact, almost any other language) will be more efficient that one running within the browser, even as Web Assembler.

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