Browser Bitcoin Miner
Browser based mining is the practice of utilizing web browsers as bitcoin miners through means of plugins or scripts.
Introduction
This concept was first reached by Bitcoin Plus, a cpu miner that is launched from the browser, requires no installation, and runs as a Java application. Additionally, this approach was done by Bitp.it as javascript which is designed to be embeddable in webpages to create a distributed server farm.
Bitcoin Plus Implementation
The miner connects to a pool and the payout method is pay-per-share. The pool's fee is 3%.
Requires Java 1.5 or higher. This miner app is not open source.
This software was announced on May 18, 2011[1].
Bitp.it Implementation
A user's computer is used by the website they are viewing, which has added Javascript to the <head> section of the site, as a distributed miner. Slush's pool is used as the pool which the distributed computer connects to.
See Also
External Links
- http://bitcoinplus.com web site