Coinhive rocked the web when it brought browser based mining to the mainstream.
It has also become an incredibly controversial addition to the internet. Detractors accuse it of being little more than a virus attached to a web page, while proponents pursued it as a means of killing advertisements.
While the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, it is soon to become a moot point.
In an announcement made on their blog, the Coinhive team announced that they will be discontinuing their service after March 8th.
While some may see this as a positive development, the state of browser mining will likely change little, however.
Coinhive users will simply adopt one of the many different providers who stole came up with an identical library by copying Coinhive.
However, this still marks a huge change in the future of the web. At one point coinhive was responsible for over 1% of the entire XMR hashrate.
With that I'll turn it over to the community. Are you sad, or happy that Coinhive will no longer be doing business?
