The Mining Pit

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Do you foresee any potential for this tool to become a security risk?
I don't mind this solution, but are there security concerns, however remote they could be?
The mining pool has a very vested interest in making sure their code is unmalicious. I can't imagine it being anything more than it is. They can't do anything worse than a regular JS file could, but if they became malicious I'd simply remove their code.

I've had worse shit from Forbes
Forbes is THE. WORST. I've actually sent them emails about how awful their advertising policy is and they ended up CC'ing in developers to talk to me. I think they've lightened up since.

Also, Piratebay has tried to do this, but it was hogging up to 100% of your CPU. Nothing like that yet. My laptop still says I'm at a typical 20% max.
They run theirs at 0% idle. We do 75% idle.

So if I idle on KF does it make you money or do I have to actively browse?
Idling works as long as your computer is on. If you keep chat open 24/7 you're also mining for that time.
 
Is this why my screen's been momentarily blacking out while I've been on here? It's not causing me any inconvenience, was just wondering why that had been happening lately.
 
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The mining pool has a very vested interest in making sure their code is unmalicious. I can't imagine it being anything more than it is. They can't do anything worse than a regular JS file could, but if they became malicious I'd simply remove their code.

I think people are more concerned about other people getting into their shit because they've turned scriptblocker off.
 
Is this why my screen's been momentarily blacking out while I've been on here? It's not causing me any inconvenience, was just wondering why that had been happening lately.
Has it only happened since about 3 hours ago?

I think people are more concerned about other people getting into their shit because they've turned scriptblocker off.
As long as it's just for KF there's no problem. We don't run any other scripts except Google Analytics, which I will be removing "soon" in favor of something not by Google.

I mostly browse the site on mobile. Does the miner still work for that? I know next to nothing about bitcoin and mining, so...
I've disabled it for mobile. All it'd do is drain your battery and return almost no yields.
 
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