Topic: WEBSITE OWNERS: NEW BROWSER MINER! HAVE YOUR WEBSITE GENERATE BITCOINS FOR YOU! - page 2. (Read 40372 times)

Has anyone received a payout from this site?  Anyone taken the time to figure out if this is legit, by that I mean are you getting the BTC you would be from CPU mining on a pool without this site?

Heh, why does that look like your setting up users to send their balance to your account?

I am not a big fan of having this run in stealth mode on a web site but a Donate button with maybe an explanation about Bitcoins is a great idea.

If I go to a website that runs this, I WILL NEVER GO BACK to that site.  And I will tell everyone I know that that site is a SCAM and is STEALING their resources.  Then I will look for places (Google, etc) to report that site as a scam.

This tool is evil.

an asshat with low reading comprehension. Wow... do you want to jump up on a table and show us how well you can dance like a monkey? i can throw popcorn for you if your interested.

380 shares in a week. Wow...

Hm, as a visitor to a website I wouldn't like the website to chug up my resources with bitcoin mining. To be ethical about it, there should at least be some opt out button.

has it ever been fixed at all?

The site seems to be up, but the database is "frozen" again, with my shares stuck at 380 for the past week.

Is the server going to be fixed again?

Useless... if someone really want to donate you, better ask them to point their miners at some adress for 10 minutes, an hour or anytime they are willing to donate. AFAIK regular GPU is like 1000 faster then a cpu mining via browser. Think about it

Okay, regarding the "this may change the future of the web".

Consider what happened if all websites had code like this. Every webpage would try to get its own share of the pie. Not only would this absolutely rape any CPU/GPU, the mining power would also be shared between loads of sites, causing your income to drop to practically zero - you're sharing the pie with too many people.

Now consider devices with a limited battery capacity (notebooks, and specifically netbooks and mobile devices like phones and handheld consoles). Consider what the effect is on how long the battery lasts. Considering most websites would likely implement this invisibly, as to not nag the user with constant questions, the user would not be aware of this running.

Now consider how good of an idea it seems, and how bad of an idea it actually is, and especially how it doesn't scale _at all_, and effectively zeroes out its own effect on the long term.

...and a few days later, it STILL is down...

a few posts up they said the server had been having issues, id guess it still is

That was going to be my question!

What happend to the site?

I understand you had some issues in your life -- I just wish you had said something -- anything -- on here, even if it was just a few words.

When people get absolute silence, they begin to get worried and assume the worst. I hope you understand.

Obviously I didn't mean to accuse you of anything you're not guilty of -- I just didn't know what to think.

Matthew

There were issues with the server the backend is running on, so the backend was down for a few days. During that time, any miner applets embedded in any pages shut themselves off (since they're designed to do so when they can't reach the server) and no shares were generated. During that time some major issues came up in my life so I unfortunately didn't have time to fix the problem. The server is back up and running again.


The payout system isn't fully automated at this point. I've written out the code so that it could be fully automated, but I'm running the payout script manually at this point so that I can keep an eye on it to make sure that it's doing the right thing, just to be safe.

Anyway, your 0.01btc should be sent later on tonight.


In case you hadn't noticed, this project is open source, you're free to run it on your own server. In fact, you'd probably generate more that way, since the lack of bandwidth congestion would likely reduce the number of stale shares by a substantial amount. The only real advantage of running through our server at this point is that you don't have to set a backend up on your own server, so it's convenient.

Unfortunately, we're really not making much of any profit on this at all. We've personally made about 0.012btc (about 17 cents at the current conversion rate) total during the 3 weeks or whatever since we started this project. Basically, it's barely enough to provide a buffer space for payouts. A couple people have made a somewhat substantial amount, considering how little bandwidth our server has at this point and how badly it's getting slammed, anyway. Hopefully this will be profitable for us in the future somehow or other, but at this point, it's just an experiment.

Like I said before, it's the reason I run NoScript, AdBlock, etc, etc, and then massage out the crap that I'll permit the websites to allow to my computer.
 
I can *guarantee* you that if a website pulled this crap on me and didn't let me know or let me opt out, I would *never* visit that site again.  I have a CPU usage gadget thingy running on my computer (for other reasons), but it is a nice way to discover run-away processes.  So if I start up a huge game and it spikes, I know what's going on, but if I open up a webpage and see it spike, I know something's amiss and leave there immediately.

The one thing i really don't like about these, and this one in particular. is that it starts using your CPU almost as soon as you open the page (take time for it to start up) and doesn't even tell you its doing this. you would expect any Legit software and website that likes having users come back would maybe have a landing page(for first visit?) with something like "we here at blablabla.com would like to try generating a small bit of income for our website, (at current exchange rates, far less then what ads provide) by simply having your CPU run some calculations for us when its not being used and while your still at our website." then have 2 buttons, "sure, use my CPU!" and "what are you crazy? hells no!~" at which point it could set a cookie so it would know to run each time they visit. possibly opening a new window instead of being embedding in the current one so it doesn't have to waste time reloading each time they click a link. And because your nice.. you will have the page close itself if they close the window/tab with your website in it. At least that is how i would do it.

You have to look at it this way, if 50% of the people that reply to your thread don't like the idea of having their CPU used for this without their knowledge, what makes you think that *everyone* that visits Every site that uses this is going to Love the idea of having their CPU used without their permission? if only *one* person hates it, and their is something you can do about it, you should do your best to fix it. in this case you have probably around 50% that don't approve, most of the ones that do approve want to install it on their website, so they are biased. that is a HUGE amount of people that will not be happy with you using their CPU without their permission. i could go on, but i think I've made my point.

Best solution, Ask them before using it.

So is it official?  BitJam was a big scam?

We haven't heard from the lead developer since the 21st... even on the weekend...where did he go?