I've made an option to add controls, which shows the current hashrate and a start/stop button. Right now it's up to the websites using it to enable that if they want to.
I like the captcha idea, I've actually been planning something like that. I've got some changes I need to make to my infrastructure before I can do that, but I'm hoping to do it (or let other people do it with the API I'm going to offer).
Thanks for the advice about making the user feel appreciated, I think that's quite important.
You've got to keep your eye out on how to access the full power of the client's GPU. I just saw how IE9 and FF4 offer GPU acceleration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VLB4DcXhg
Also, when the user is scrolling the page can you throttle down, so basically the idea is not detract from the user experience. On-demand throttling down somehow. Maybe when a tab is not visible.
Yeah, I'd really like to use the GPU, it would be a huge speed boost.
Was it lagging when you were scrolling down? I try to play nice with the CPU and run it at low priority, so it shouldn't interfere. What OS/browser/java version combo has trouble?
Ha that's great. I've already thought through a lot of this.
One thing that'd be interesting is just to have a donate bitcoin button/address as part of the widget. "You don't get shit you don't ask for"
Also, the way I see bitcoin becoming more popular is when it's offered as change. So if a person wants to donate with credit card say $5.00, they can get like $2 back in bitcoin. Next site they visit they might donate with the bitcoin. In fact, simply tracking what a user visits and then allowing them to donate at a later time to all of them is the key.
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also talk to hotels, hostels and those that they outsource to for their PCs. Upvote my suggestions if you like them!
I don't have Java installed and don't want to install it. I wonder if internet cafes and kiosks would be interested in something like this. You could create a url shortener that place their homepage in a frame or something.
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I've made an option to add controls, which shows the current hashrate and a start/stop button. Right now it's up to the websites using it to enable that if they want to.
I like the captcha idea, I've actually been planning something like that. I've got some changes I need to make to my infrastructure before I can do that, but I'm hoping to do it (or let other people do it with the API I'm going to offer).
Thanks for the advice about making the user feel appreciated, I think that's quite important.
You've got to keep your eye out on how to access the full power of the client's GPU. I just saw how IE9 and FF4 offer GPU acceleration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VLB4DcXhg
Also, when the user is scrolling the page can you throttle down, so basically the idea is not detract from the user experience. On-demand throttling down somehow. Maybe when a tab is not visible.
Yeah, I'd really like to use the GPU, it would be a huge speed boost.
Was it lagging when you were scrolling down? I try to play nice with the CPU and run it at low priority, so it shouldn't interfere. What OS/browser/java version combo has trouble?
Ha that's great. I've already thought through a lot of this.
One thing that'd be interesting is just to have a donate bitcoin button/address as part of the widget. "You don't get shit you don't ask for"
Also, the way I see bitcoin becoming more popular is when it's offered as change. So if a person wants to donate with credit card say $5.00, they can get like $2 back in bitcoin. Next site they visit they might donate with the bitcoin. In fact, simply tracking what a user visits and then allowing them to donate at a later time to all of them is the key.
-- add: also talk to hotels, hostels and those that they outsource to for their PCs. Upvote my suggestions if you like them!
I don't have Java installed and don't want to install it. I wonder if internet cafes and kiosks would be interested in something like this. You could create a url shortener that place their homepage in a frame or something.
We really think alike - the captcha idea, and the URL shortener with a miner at the top were two of my first ideas for uses of an API.
I didn't think of marketing it to internet cafes/kiosks though.