(01-22-2018, 05:20 PM)Labster Wrote: No, no, no. Cryptocurrency mining is an ecological disaster. Bitcoin uses approximately 0.20% of the world's energy supply, or approximately one Hong Kong. Thirteen U.S. houses could be powered for a day for the cost of a single bitcoin transaction. Bitcoin uses 5000x more energy per transaction than VISA.
I wasn't saying I was going to be running a mine anytime soon... just that I don't want anyone ELSE running a mine on my hardware.
(01-22-2018, 05:20 PM)Labster Wrote: Running web-based mining is even worse, because you're using a general purpose CPU instead of a GPU optimized for floating point calculations. So you spend even more energy you don't notice. And hey, if we stop doing Bitcoin maybe gamers can actually buy a decent graphics card?
I'd heard it was becoming an issue getting the higher end cards because various cryptocurrencies are to that point. And it's why there's an effort towards the "in your browser" mining, given the potential of massive amounts of otherwise underused computing power, even on non-optimized processors.
(01-22-2018, 05:20 PM)Labster Wrote: I'm currently just running uBlock Origin, which blocks most trackers and ads with the default lists, and Decentraleyes. Decentraleyes keeps cached copies of web libraries, so CDNs can't track which websites you visit that way. This also speeds loading of JS-heavy sites. And protect against the CDN getting hacked, but that's mainly paranoia. Paranoia seems to be prudent these days.
I've been using uBlock Origin since after AdBlock Plus started allowed ads (even vetted, I have issues with that), and switched to uBlock Matrix when NoScript wasn't quite ready on the Firefox architecture changeover.
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