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0 pointsdetaro6y ago0 comments

> Before, they had to port their crypto miner to JavaScript by hand

No, cross-compilers to JS are and were thing too, and were used by cryptominers.

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fxtentacle6y ago· 2 in thread

Yes, but before webrtc they were easy to block.

detaroOP6y ago

What do cryptominers need WebRTC for?

To connect to arbitrary IPs and ports to send home the results of the calculations.

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