Why hasn’t someone built an XMR web-miner that is first & foremost made to replace captchas & reduce spam while also generating revenue?

I imagine the profit potential would be quite high for anyone who could implement their own solution & maybe like XMRig have a default donation value to get paid for creating thing.

It would be amazing if as a website owner I could have set difficulties to preform certain tasks & the server could send users work units for users to complete, obviously at a much lower difficulty but if they manage to actually complete the work or get a correct hash then it could be designed to automatically send that back. Increased revenue (maybe enough to replace ads), less spam, & no captchas for users, everyone would win & all this extra mining would increase the security of the Monero network.

Is there an obvious reason I’m not seeing as to why this hasn’t been done?

    • drive_desaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Not quite sure if this is the right place to mention it but I would assume that most people that want to post on a website or similar would find it quite sketchy if they would have to install and run an extra program.

      Especially since you always hear that you shouldn’t install random programs because of malware and so on

    • ZaptosisOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Thank you, that is actually quite interesting

        • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          to be more specific, I have read in monero circles a few times that it was a deliberate decision that a miner can’t be implemented in WebAssembly

          • ZaptosisOPEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Thats a shame because it would really allow for a massive boost in network security & decentralization. Imagine if instead of what Tor did, they actually just had a modified working version of RandomX which could generate revenue for owners.

            To me it just seems like such a waste that proof of work challenges are becoming more common place but those CPU cycles are essentially just being wasted not actually doing anything of value. Like at least if they could be given work units to very briefly preform micro prime number calculations, at least there is some mathematical value in that.

            • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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              3 months ago

              hmm, I think it wouldn’t be really useful for monero mining. even with p2pool mini you need hours on a simple machine to find a block, and you are waiting just for a short time on these bot verification pages/menus.

              Like at least if they could be given work units to very briefly preform micro prime number calculations, at least there is some mathematical value in that.

              if you can adequately verify the correctness of the results, that could be worth something yeah

  • hyc
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    3 months ago

    Web mining was tried before. The payoff per hash is too small, far less profitable than inserting ads onto a website.