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Inspiration
Everyone wants to raise money for something they care about. Unfortunately, not all of us have the capital to do so. With Good₿Miner anyone, even kids, can fund campaigns.
What it does
Good₿Miner is a web app that allows users to create fundraising campaigns similar to gofundme.com. However, users do not need to pay through conventional means but rather through their device's processing power. Good₿Miner will mine the cryptocurrency Monero on the users web browser until the set goal has been reached.
How I built it
I made a flask app that's hosted on AWS. Used Slushpool's API to connect to a bitcoin pool and used jsminer to mine bitcoin. Also used Coinhive API to mine Monero. Campaigns and results are saved in MongoDB.
Challenges I ran into
Getting the jsminer to work with flask was difficult since I had to rewrite some of the core functionality in python.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
It's (almost) ready for launch.
What I learned
Mining cryptocurrency on the browser is still a very resource heavy process.
What's next for Good₿Miner
Run the miner in the background as a service worker.
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