Monday, April 30, 2018

UNICEF wants your CPU power to mine cryptocurrency for children in Bangladesh


UNICEF Australia wants you to fund its charitable missions using your computer’s processing power. The UN program that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing nations has now launched The Hope Page, which allows the users to donate to its cause by mining cryptocurrency. The Hope Page uses Coinhive’s opt-in version that gives the users an option to mine Monero for the website they are visiting. When you’re on Hope Page, your web browser uses your computer’s processor to solve cryptocurrency algorithms. You can select how much processor power you want to donate to this task…

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