How To Block Cryptocurrency Mining In Your Web Browser.

With the surge in the price of bitcoin and several other crypto-currencies, people are starting to see it as an lucrative investment. Although they are highly volatile in nature but investors are betting hard on those crypto-currencies. More and more people are now mining this crypto-currencies and as a result this mining process is now considered as an environmental threat because of huge consumption of electricity. Mining a bitcoin or any other crypto-currency require a sufficient set up of high end ASIC hardware and several other components. But some notorious and smart people have found a way to mine bitcoin without this high end setup.

They are using your personal devices like laptop,computer, and even smartphones computational powers to mine those crypto-currencies. All they are doing is injecting a script in the website that most of you access more promptly and when you visit this website a script automatically runs behind your browser without your permission and you start mining this crypto-currencies for others using your CPU power and electricity. 

But don't worry techiyappa_buoy have you covered so that no can trick you into using your power to mine for someone else. 

If you are a chrome user than go to the chrome web store and install the mining blocker extension. Use Anti-Miner and Mining Blocker for securing your web browsing from cryptocurrency miner. Both the extensions comes handy for blocking the cryptocurrency mining. But if you are not a google chrome fan than you can switch to the Opera web browser, this browser comes with an inbuilt tool and a handy feature for blocking this cryptocurrency mining. 

You can always check your CPU performance and processes to identify any weird or sudden CPU usage. This will help you to monitor your CPU power consumption and RAM usage. The Pirate Bay, the world’s most popular torrent website, was recently spotted testing a Monero cryptocurrency miner on their websites.And they accepted that they were indeed using this secret miner and will continuously use this in future also to keep the website running. 

Share your thoughts on whether or not websites should be allowed to do this notorious activity. Till next time stay safe, stay updated and stay connected.