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https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/knights-and-knaves/
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Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Bitcoin mining as an alternative to ad revenue

4•pipeline_peak•9mo ago
If you had a website, could it be feasible to pool all of the users hardware resources in order to fund the services?

Obviously this would depend on the type of service, etc, I’m just brainstorming.

Comments

colesantiago•9mo ago
no.
dtgm92•9mo ago
Great way to get your site blacklisted
pipeline_peak•9mo ago
That’s a good point. What if the mining was well addressed in advanced?
solardev•9mo ago
Great way to get your site blacklisted
pipeline_peak•9mo ago
Cool
dmlittle•9mo ago
Jeremy Rubin built a proof-of-concept for this over a decade ago for a hackathon and ended up being sued by the state of New Jersey. This blog post[0] has a good summary of the events.

[0] https://ethanzuckerman.com/2015/05/28/the-death-of-tidbit-an...

pipeline_peak•9mo ago
This guy even said as an alternative to ad-revenue, I felt so clever lol.

Crypto is much more known than when that occurred. Wouldn’t surprise me if something like this would still get sued though.

numpad0•9mo ago
"Mining agents as an ethical alternative to pervasive `ad` system" is considered more legally offensive than ads. Courts and media alike face great difficulty understanding ethics arguments, being left out and uninformed about the Web for too long.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptojacking
pipeline_peak•9mo ago
I should’ve said, a method like this would require user consent. Not a lengthy terms and conditions that the user would inevitably ignore but something designed to be really in their face so they can’t use unless they’re well informed.

Could that still be considered unethical? Or is that just more in the air.

JamesLeonis•9mo ago
10 years ago μTorrent tried to package a crypto miner as an install path offer instead of a toolbar and faced incredible backlash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent#Ads_and_malware

speedgoose•9mo ago
The likelihood that one of your visitors mine one bitcoin is extremely low nowadays. If you work in a pool that doesn’t consist of only your visitors and their limited resources, you will get close to nothing.

Just go burn a few old tires outside. The environmental impact might be similar and you will save time.

pipeline_peak•9mo ago
Unless you already did, assume whatever the service is, the user is absolutely hooked on and can only use it via this transaction.

Would you still say the same?

Jasonbe•9mo ago
So burning tires is equivalent to mining bitcoin? How so?
ytpete•9mo ago
Carbon emissions from all the energy usage, is what I assume they're alluding to
detaro•9mo ago
it's terribly inefficient. People tried this years ago and it was pretty quickly wiped of the web because people do not tolerate it.
npoc•9mo ago
Ultimately just getting them to pay you bitcoin instead (over the lightning network) would be a better option for them as they can give you as much work/energy as you want independent of the capabilities of their device and electricity costs.
muzani•9mo ago
Ads worked back in the era where people couldn't make payments online. These days it's just more effective to have them pay, or in some cases, pay to disable the ad.
csomar•9mo ago
No. Bitcoin is mined with Asics (not even GPUs). Mining with CPU will bring roughly $0 per user and $0 per many thousands of users while burning the CPU/Battery/whatever of these users. Given that alts got destroyed as of late, this means mining as an ad alternative is as good as dead.

The really closest thing is something like stacker.news where users pay micro-dollars using lightening. There is also a podcast app. But from experience, these do not seem to scale very well.

nextn•9mo ago
A different payment policy for ads, similar to stacker.news, is worth exploring.
ipaddr•9mo ago
This was done using other coins (not bitcoin) that use cpu. People got creative used free websites that offered a preview of your site at different screen resolutions which would use the site's resources for the mining.

People still use it to mine while you are viewing a video. But browsers got around to blocking and labeling as this as malware.

For historical context 14 years ago it was an option: https://github.com/progranism/Bitcoin-JavaScript-Miner

Don't waste your time. You are better off trying to guess a bitcoin hash.

nextn•9mo ago
Have ad publishers pay users, instead of pay ad companies.

Instead of make an ad that already consumes the visitor's attention to also consume their cpu, and this to enrich the ad-tech company, consider making a website pay the visitor for having their attention consumed by the ad instead of pay the ad-tech company.

This would be open to abuse by visitors, where visitors reload a page over and over to get paid. To prevent this type of abuse, require visitors to submit money as collateral to the website. Users pay $x per month to be part of this "ad network". If users view and get paid for more pages than their submitted collateral, they keep the money the ad paid them but they don't get their collateral back. In a way this forces users to pick which pages to visit.