The Pirate Bay Torrent (TPB) caught up for mining Cryptocurrency to generate more revenue by using the visitors CPU power without letting users know. Site operator issued a statement that says,As you may have noticed we are testing a Monero javascript miner. This is only a test. We really want to get rid of all the ads. But we also need enough money to keep the site running, the site operator said. The site operator also said that it is testing a miner from Coinhive to mine the Monero cryptocurrency.”]
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