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		narrator on Nov 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin How about an optional bitcoin miner running in the background while using reddit using webgl (so it can make use of the GPU) that accumulates bitcoin. As the user browses around reddit it will be active, slowly generating bitcoins as part of a pool. When the user has accumulated enough for reddit gold, it automatically buys it for them. Maybe it would take two years or so to accumulate a bitcoin to buy reddit gold but that's at least turning users into money. Am I an idiot or did I just discover an alternative to the ad supported model for free content sites?

ferroh on Nov 12, 2012 | [–]

If ASICs are shipped in the next couple of months, then very soon GPU mining will do as little as CPU mining does today.

mylittlepony on Nov 13, 2012 | [–]

This already exists, but it uses the CPU: http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable

I tried it for one of my websites and it made the user experience intolerable, and didn't even make a dime.

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