DONATE BY MINING IN YOUR BROWSER:
You can donate not real money, but the cycles of your CPU – the amount YOU want for the time YOU decide. No strings attached. If you run it – it works. If you stop the miner or close the tab – you stop donating. Wanna donate? Just click on a button to the right, adjust the amount of load (cores and % of each core should be loaded) and that’s all. Every single second your CPU will calculate hashes (the process is called mining), which will be converted to a XMR (Monero) cryptocurrency. Mind you, that a single user, even on a powerful rig can’t generate much (I’d say it’s cents per day per user), but when many of you support me, the total amount will be enough to cover the site's expenses on. -- Big Thanks to FitGirl For The Idea
Q: What is cryptocurrency mining in general?
A: It’s process, which involves a lot of calculations, designed to find “proper hashes” in a virtual heap of “all hashes” over a certain period of time. You can compare it to searching a needle in a haystack. Once you (or a pool of users) find the needle, you (or the said pool) receive the reward – the digital coin. If you were all alone, the reward is yours completely. If the pool was involved, the reward is divided between all members depending of percentage of their work in finding this particular needle. The thing is, that over a period of time and amount of miners involved the haystack is automatically growing, while the reward stays the same. So, almost all cryptocurrencies can be mined fast on the start, but mining rapidly becomes very hard and not effective on general purpose CPUs and GPUs.
Q: What is the browser mining?
A: It’s a relatively new way of mining, which is done via Javascript + specific libraries right in the browser, without installing and running any applications. It can run on any OS on any device with a modern browser. It uses only CPU for mining and can’t get access to GPU or anything outside browser windows. So it’s very secure and safe. The only downside is a perfomance. The current CoinHive script I use is 45% slower than standalone miner would be on the same CPU.
Q: Does the browser affects mining speed?
A: Yes, it does. In example, recent Firefix Quantum browser shows faster calculation of hashes compared to generic Firefox or Chrome.
Q: Does browser mining eats my traffic?
A: Yes, but with a very low rate. In example, if you mine at 100 hashes/second, your total outgoing traffic won’t exceed 20 MB in one hour. And no incoming traffic at any significant rate.
How do I know if your miner won't overheat my PC?
you can use simple and small CoreTemp program to see your system temperature. Add threads and load slowly and see when you have to stop. Anything above 70 degrees (C) is not recommended without proper cooling.