[Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing?

[Chris Samuel]

On 27/11/19 9:50 am, Lux, Jim (US 337K) via Beowulf wrote:

> Wasn't there a minor scandal a year or so ago about websites mining bitcoin in the background using user resources? And some phone apps doing the same?

Javascript cryptominers are a thing, and Firefox tries to block them 
automatically.

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/block-cryptominers-with-firefox/

All the best,
Chris
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