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Who and What Is Coinhive?
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<blockquote data-quote="Prorootect" data-source="post: 721560" data-attributes="member: 905"><p><strong>Update, 4:14 p.m. ET:</strong> Shortly after this story went live, an update was added to phoboslab[dot]org, the personal blog of Dominic Szablewski, the founder of pr0gramm[dot]com. In it, Szablewski claims responsibility for starting Coinhive. As for who’s running it now, we’re left to wonder. The new content there reads:</p><p></p><p>“Brian Krebs recently published a story about Coinhive and I want to clarify some things.”</p><p></p><p>“In 2007 I built a simple image board – pr0gramm – for my friends and me. Over the years, this board has evolved and grown tremendously. When some trolls in 2015 found out who was behind pr0gramm, I received death threats for various moderation decisions on that board. I decided to get out of it and sold pr0gramm. I was still working on pr0gramm behind the scenes and helped with technical issues from time to time, but abstained from moderating completely.”</p><p></p><p>“Mid last year I had the idea to try and implement a Cryptocurrency miner in WebAssembly. Just as an experiment, to see if it would work. Of course I needed some users to test it. The owners of pr0gramm were generous enough to let me try but had no part in the development. I quickly built a separate page on pr0gramm.com that users could open to earn a premium account by mining. It worked tremendously well.”</p><p></p><p>“So I decided to expand this idea into its own platform. I launched Coinhive a few months later and quickly realized that I couldn’t do this alone. So I was searching for someone who would take over.</p><p></p><p>“I found a company interested in a new venture. They have taken over Coinhive and are now working on a big overhaul.”</p><p></p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>here: <a href="http://phoboslab.org/log/2018/03/about-coinhive" target="_blank">About Coinhive - PhobosLab</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prorootect, post: 721560, member: 905"] [B]Update, 4:14 p.m. ET:[/B] Shortly after this story went live, an update was added to phoboslab[dot]org, the personal blog of Dominic Szablewski, the founder of pr0gramm[dot]com. In it, Szablewski claims responsibility for starting Coinhive. As for who’s running it now, we’re left to wonder. The new content there reads: “Brian Krebs recently published a story about Coinhive and I want to clarify some things.” “In 2007 I built a simple image board – pr0gramm – for my friends and me. Over the years, this board has evolved and grown tremendously. When some trolls in 2015 found out who was behind pr0gramm, I received death threats for various moderation decisions on that board. I decided to get out of it and sold pr0gramm. I was still working on pr0gramm behind the scenes and helped with technical issues from time to time, but abstained from moderating completely.” “Mid last year I had the idea to try and implement a Cryptocurrency miner in WebAssembly. Just as an experiment, to see if it would work. Of course I needed some users to test it. The owners of pr0gramm were generous enough to let me try but had no part in the development. I quickly built a separate page on pr0gramm.com that users could open to earn a premium account by mining. It worked tremendously well.” “So I decided to expand this idea into its own platform. I launched Coinhive a few months later and quickly realized that I couldn’t do this alone. So I was searching for someone who would take over. “I found a company interested in a new venture. They have taken over Coinhive and are now working on a big overhaul.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- here: [URL="http://phoboslab.org/log/2018/03/about-coinhive"]About Coinhive - PhobosLab[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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