Last week there was an article pointing out that hundreds of websites have been hacked to add bitcoin cryptocurrency mining scripts into them. This of course is interesting to the media because it uses the words ‘hacked’ and ‘bitcoin’ cryptocurrency in the same sentence. Tools like AT&T’s Video O…

The Performance Impact of Cryptocurrency Mining on the Web

rviscomi November 2, 2017, 5:26pm 3

Wow really interesting. I’m imagining a transparency report powered by the HTTP Archive that publishes a list of URLs found to contain crypto mining libraries.

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The Performance Impact of Cryptocurrency Mining on the Web

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