A year ago an unnamed investor asked me for a consultancy on topic:"If this is possible to mine crypto in a browser using GPU?". The talk shares some insights/outcome found during the research and give an idea of what to expect when mining cryptocurrencies using a pool of browser-based miners. Let's review mining as a top-notch performance challenge for the Web platform.
Mining is a top notch performance benchmarking for a Web platform. Let's see how fast we can be using all the cool new browser APIs as WebAssembly, WebGL and Workers.
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