04-01-2017, 09:13 PM
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Website makes money with Bitcoin mining script
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...tcoin_paywall/
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Reg now behind invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall
It'll feel a bit malware-y, but you'll be funding quality journalism without noticing it
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1 Apr 2017 at 04:01, Team Register
Readers will be aware that these are tough times for the media. And The Register is no exception: like many other publishers we need to diversify our revenue base.
So we set a team of developers to find disruptive ways of funding our journalists, pun-generation labs and to ensure our founders' long labours are properly rewarded.
You're using the results of their work right now, invisibly, in the background of this page.
HTML5 offers a feature called ?Web Workers? that lets web pages run JavaScript in the background of web pages. Those scripts have nothing to do with the user interface and can be invisible to users, other than the fact they consume some processor cycles.
The Register has used Web Workers to create a distributed bitcoin mining operation.
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Check out the patents and the licensing schema
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