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0 pointswillj8y ago0 comments

I made (Let's) All Mine, a site that I hoped would pay for a master's degree in statistics. The idea was inspired by The Million Dollar Homepage [2] which was an experiment in what qualifies as a website. Essentially, that site took people's annoyance by ads, and made a site that was entirely ads, a 1000x1000 pixel grid where each square pixel cost $1. And it was successful.

My project takes people's annoyance by browser miners, and is a site whose entire purpose is browser mining. There's nothing else to it. The goal is to mine 1,000 Monero (an altcoin) collaboratively. After taxes and fees, that would cover the approximate cost of 2 years in grad school. I did the math the other day and realized that with about 1 million miners, I could achieve this task in 1 week (or 1 day with 7.5M miners, or 1 month with 250k people).

I've had very little luck getting the word out. While I'd love for the internet's capricious eye to smile on me and make it take off, I'm not optimistic. Nevertheless, it was a fun learning project!

[1] https://allmine.io

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

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eat_veggies8y ago· 1 in thread

The current reward for mining is super lame, just a few characters in a leaderboard.

If I were implementing something like this, I'd do something like a crossover between Reddit's Place project and the million dollar homepage, where you mine x amount of coin in order to place a pixel on a shared canvas.

Right now there's no psychological motivation to continue mining, especially because if someone arrives late in the game, they have almost 0 chance of rising to the top of the leaderboard, so why even bother?

willjOP8y ago

That's a really cool idea. Thanks!

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