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Someone could make a URL shortening service that frames sites, including the mining JS. Users could sign up and get a % from the mined coins on links that they share.

As many people are pointing out that GPUs are faster for mining that CPUs, would you be able to make use of a GPU with WebGL (or GPU-accelerated Flash)? I guess the GPU computations don't fall in the spec of WebGL though.



We thought about how much people would hate us if we did some digg-bar thing like that. We'll leave the being debatably evil to google.

As for the GPU-accelerated JS, check out WebCL: http://webcl.nokiaresearch.com/


I think a bitcoin browser plugin would be the sanest choice


We thought so too! But then we realized that if you're going to download and install a miner, you probably want one that's actually fast. Browser plugins, which are almost all javascript these days, are basically the worst of both worlds from that perspective: slow and require manual installation.




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