If you have ever visited punk rock bands Anti-Flags’ website, you might have noticed your CPU fan begin to run a bit louder – no, its nothing wrong with your computer, so to speak. Rather, the punk band Anti-Flag (either knowingly or unknowingly as some believe the webmaster did it without them knowing) has installed a BTC miner on their own server to access your CPUs so as to mine Bitcoin. Smart band. Whether or not this is making them very many BTC is hard to gauge, although it is likely a simple “DONATE BITCOIN” button would do the trick and perhaps even do it better. (Read more…)
Here is the Javascript doing it at the pages’ bottom:
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Does this mean the band will accept Bitcoin for their records and shows?
The band has been skeptical about the dollar in their own music, as evidenced by this track, $1 Trillion Dollars.
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