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Pirate Bay digs itself a new hole: Mining alt-coin in slurper browsers

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Power usage

Mining in JavaScript in a browser sounds horrifically inefficient; I imagine it would be a massive waste of electricity and resources for almost no gain. It sounds like a very dumb reason to cook the planet.

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