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Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: DAG size calculator
by
Ursul0
on 25/09/2017, 05:47:11 UTC
The https://investoon.com/tools/dag_size website contains a Javascript miner, which means it's using website visitor's CPU to mine in favor of website creator. See website source:





Probably by the time most people will see this post, this part of code will be removed from this website. But it is present at the moment of this message writing.

Yep. Something fishy is going on there for sure. Just by opening this site my cpu usage went from 15% to 80%. I've got 22nm laptop with active cooling, so I noticed immediately Smiley
Actually I was't sure what was the cause before killing this Chrome process with 60%+ CPU usage and then seeing under this site tab "Aw snap..."