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Discussion on: Mining cryptocurrencies instead of having ads?

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Jules Pénuchot

Mining currencies using JS scripts is incredibly inefficient (not just because JS is slow but also because it can only run on CPU, and CPUs are incredibly slow at solving hashes) and crypto-mining is already a huge waste of energy. It would just drain our devices' batteries, increase overall energy consumption, without even generating decent revenues for website holders.