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We are all familiar with The Pirate Bay (TPB) as its the leading Torrent website and one of the oldest too .. Popular Torrent Website The Pirate Bay Running a Cryptocurrency Miner using your CPU Power According to reports, TPB is using a cryptocurrency miner on the website. The cryptocurrency miner’s JavaScript code is tucked away in the footer of TPB and uses the power of visitors computer to mine coins called Monero coins. The Pirate Bay admins stand to make a lot of money as the Monero is trading upwards of $95 a coin (price at the time of writing this article) . Admins of TPB say they are "testing" a cryptocurrency miner as a new way to generate revenue and the code will be removed in 24 hours. Visitors of The Pirate Bay are not happy with the greed that TPB admins are showing by inputting the cryptocurrency miners code. The miner’s code increases the visitors CPU usage drastically once it is triggered by visiting the page that has the code. Not all TPB pages carry the code. It seems the admins are testing the miners code only on the search results and category listings page. The homepage and the individual movie/tv show or software torrent page do not have the code. Is The Pirate Bay Hacked ? No, as Administrator of the site "Sid" is aware about this issue which led the Admins of TPB to make a blog post "Miner" by Y-Day , where he asked the members of TPB if they want Ads or a Crypto Miner which would use only 20% of cpu resource , surprisingly people preferred the Miner. How to Disable Monero Crypto Miner on Websites Best way to block is at the DNS level. 1.) Run CMD as Admin 2.) Run to Edit Hosts file to block at DNS level: notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 3.) In host file on the last line add: # Coin Hive Miner 0.0.0.0 coin-hive.com 4.) Save the host file and back in the CMD window, clear DNS cache by running: ipconfig /flushdns 5.) Make sure site is blocked by pinging it: ping coin-hive.com Should get back: Ping request could not find host coin-hive.com. Please check the name and try again. All done. The site is now blocked. So now you know how to block any site (domain) you wish. Friendly tips: Host file is very useful. Can be used to not just block sites, ads, trackers, etc. But can also be used for example for Ipv6 domains. Check out https://github.com/lennylxx/ipv6-hosts http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm is great for blocking ads and other junk using Host file. Even more useful is https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts If you have a decent router you can do all of this on the router so all devices get the protection not just your 1 PC. Or you can run your own DNS server and have all devices use it. I use Bind9 (https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/) personally. Block a lot of junk on it with Yoyo And MalwareDomains . What do you think about TPB using Monero Miner ? I personally think its a neat way to use a hidden miner and not show anymore ads.I think i will give it a test myself ;)

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