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		dmlittle 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Bitcoin mining as an alternative to ad rev... Jeremy Rubin built a proof-of-concept for this over a decade ago for a hackathon and ended up being sued by the state of New Jersey. This blog post[0] has a good summary of the events. [0] https://ethanzuckerman.com/2015/05/28/the-death-of-tidbit-an...

pipeline_peak 11 months ago [–]

This guy even said as an alternative to ad-revenue, I felt so clever lol.

Crypto is much more known than when that occurred. Wouldn’t surprise me if something like this would still get sued though.

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