Is using Coinhive illegal?

Why would it be? What's illegal about a standard JavaScript code using your computer's computing capacity through the browser? Do you remember the Netscape browser and the name Brendan Eich? He was the Netscape Communications engineer who developed the JavaScript programming language before the turn of the millennium.

JavaScript is present on practically almost all websites across the entire World Wide Web and is among the basic requirements for fundamental operation. This doesn't mean the Internet couldn't exist without JavaScript, but since it's there, why not use it?

CoinHive uses precisely the capabilities of JavaScript to support the author of a website in some way. Coinhive is not a virus, not spyware, and above all not an illegal tool that wants to drag internet society into the mud.

Coinhive is a solution so that a website doesn't have to be stuffed with advertisements and annoy readers by making them chase the X button to close annoying pop-ups, jumping ads that crawl everywhere. Fun, right, closing annoying ads while watching YouTube videos and waiting to skip what doesn't even interest you? Compared to this, Coinhive doesn't get in your face, doesn't try to sell you any junk, but does one thing. While you read the "valuable" content, it makes your computer work a little.

Is that a problem? Oh yes, many are outraged that their game slows down because of it... What game? If you're reading news or articles on a website, are you also playing a game at the same time? Or what are these people talking about? I've never wanted to play an FPS while reading HWSW...

Coinhive is a solution so that the author or site owner, instead of ad revenue, can participate at a minimal level in solving the long series of mathematical operations that create the future. What's wrong with that? Nothing!

What's wrong is that there are many malicious people on earth who try to jump on any available opportunity in a way that is unacceptable, and that's what makes THEIR actions illegal. Just because Coinhive offers a virus-free, ad-free solution for authors to earn revenue doesn't mean it's illegal. It's illegal when someone tries to sneak a Coinhive code into a place they have no connection to, or intentionally hacked the site in hopes of making money.

Coinhive is not illegal, but the attitude of malicious users certainly is. Anyone who hides code with bad intentions is not only acting illegally but also bears criminal responsibility for their actions. Such people should be removed from the internet, and then they wouldn't turn a normal application into an illegal weapon threatening humanity, which most people even believe is illegal because a few people write that... Ridiculous!

Coinhive's terms of service statethat visitors to the site must be informed that the CoinHive JavaScript micro-application wants to use the reader's computer resources on the site. The reader can decide at their own discretion whether they wish to exercise the option of supporting the author and their work or not, and can immediately stop the support, i.e., the process of mining through the website. They can also decide to reduce the performance but still respect the author and support them to some extent.

This would be the right attitude! This must be it! Currently, the Coinhive JavaScript miner also runs on this site in an experimental stage, however readers are not misled, it's not hidden, it's not concealed from them. In the topmost menu bar, browser mining can be turned on and off and performance can be adjusted. In return, not a single advertisement appears on the site. So would this be illegal?

If you think so, please share with us in the comments section. Thank you!