I'm a bit sorry for the CoinHive creators. It worked so well on the original platform (German image board), where it was well communicated and transparently implemented.<p>Of course it would have been very naive to believe things like this wouldn't happen. But I'd like to image the people behind CoinHive didn't bank on it.<p>Edit, some stats:<p>> A few sites were actually using our service and collectively mined at 100K hashes/s. We have since peaked at 13.5M hashes/s – a quite respectable 5% of the global hash rate of the Monero blockchain.<p>> In just one week we scaled from one lonely server to 28 WebSocket proxies, 6 web servers, two database servers and two VPS doing maintenance work. We had countless performance issues to fix and a few sleepless nights, but we are now handling 2.2 million concurrent WebSocket connections quite comfortably.