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The likelihood that one of your visitors mine one bitcoin is extremely low nowadays. If you work in a pool that doesn’t consist of only your visitors and their limited resources, you will get close to nothing.

Just go burn a few old tires outside. The environmental impact might be similar and you will save time.

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Unless you already did, assume whatever the service is, the user is absolutely hooked on and can only use it via this transaction.

Would you still say the same?

So burning tires is equivalent to mining bitcoin? How so?

Carbon emissions from all the energy usage, is what I assume they're alluding to

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