The Pirate Bay turns transparent: Can cryptocurrency mining really replace ads?
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Out of sight, out of mind.
At least, that phrase may be at the heart of a new scheme implemented by The Pirate Bay to generate revenue -- the use of cryptocurrency mining scripts which use power from visitor machines to generate Monero (XMR).
It was back in September that the torrent search website was widely criticized for implementing a cryptocurrency mining pilot scheme. Despite claiming that the miner only impacted a small number of website visitors, the mining operation -- made possible through a script from Coinhive -- contained a typographical error which sent visitor CPU usage rocketing and caused an absolute uproar.
