Monero

There has been a lot of noise around Monero and Coinhive lately, or web mining in general, and don’t quite agree with most of what I’m hearing. It all started with The Pirate Bay adding a web mining script to their site, so whenever you’d visit them, your CPU would be used to mine some Monero for them. That was made without any notice to the user, just “stealing” their power. That was probably the best ad Coinhive (which is the service hosting the mining script and providing the required infrastructure to mine Monero) could get, as it appeared all over the news (even some local newspaper got noticed). And, as it was to expect, plenty of sites added the same piece of script so they could also benefit from their users base.