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May 19, 2011 06:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WLnq57c9Sos/Mint-It-Yourself-With-a-Browser-Based-Bitcoin-Miner
Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner
An anonymous reader writes "There's a popular discussion happening at the Bitcoin forums about a new browser-based bitcoin miner released today. This lets people mine for bitcoin straight from the browser. There's talk of making an embeddable version. How long until websites start using CPU power from their users to create Bitcoin for their owners?" As Bitcoin gets more attention, I foresee malware with payloads promising to do the same thing. 
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