Tag Archives: Monero Coins

A few weeks ago, The Pirate Bay began testing out a new cryptocurrency miner as a potential way to replace flash ads. The miner appeared in the website’s code and would borrow CPU resources from visitors of the site in order to obtain a currency known as ‘Monero coins’. The …

Over the weekend, torrenters across the web noticed something a little different about The Pirate Bay. A new cryptocurrency miner had appeared in the code for the website, which used some of the CPU resources from visitors to mine Monero coins. At first, there was some backlash due to the …