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Why not make this contribute to something greater, like scientific grid computing, or a charitable bitcoin donation? Instead we're just burning a few watts to s
by aurumque 1y ago
Why not make this contribute to something greater, like scientific grid computing, or a charitable bitcoin donation? Instead we're just burning a few watts to slow down crawlers.
- internetter 1y agoI like the citizen science idea, the bitcoin one is so shitty. There was an epedemic of websites covertly mining in browsers a while back and this is a dangerous road to go down.
- woah 1y agoThe entire purpose of this library is to covertly mine in browsers
- internetter 1y agoOnly for the protection of the service. With a financial incentive all of the sudden it’s deployed unnecessarily to every static site in existence, just like ads all those years ago. And the enshittificstion continues.
- tiagozip 1y agono, it's not mining crypto.
- idiotsecant 1y agoDo you have an example of scientific grid computing that is expensive to compute but cheap to verify? Those are the properties this needs.
- jonas21 1y agoBecause the overhead of orchestrating and distributing the problem would be much larger than the amount of work you can do in 1 second?