What is CoinHive
Coinhive offers a JavaScript miner for the Monero cryptocurrency that you can embed in your website and use the CPU of website visitors computers to mine coins for you.
This is called Cryptojacking. It involves hijacking the users browsers for cryptocurrency mining. Some website owners may use it themselves to make money but in our case, it had got injected.
When a user accesses the infected site, the Coinhive JavaScript executes and mines Monero utilizing the user’s CPU resources. This may lead to CPU throttling & unexpected system crash of victim’s machine.
Now if your browser is infected you will see your resource utilization go up. Close the browser, and it will drop. The user may notice his machine heating up, the fan running fast or the battery draining fast.
Coinhive can be integrated into your sites in several different ways. For the Simple UI and the Captcha you only need to copy a few lines of code into your site's source. The JavaScript API in turn gives you the full control over the behavior of the miner, but requires some JavaScript knowledge.
To use any of Coinhive's APIs, you need to provide to your credentials with every request. You will find a public site key and a private secret key in your account settings.
Simple Miner UI
The easiest way to implement the miner into your page and let your users control it.
Captcha
Display, customize and verify the Proof Of Work Captcha.
JavaScript Miner
Embed, control and get status information from the JavaScript miner on your webpage.
HTTP API
Verify tokens, get and withdraw user balances and programmatically create shortlinks.
WordPress Plugin
An easy to integrate plugin for your WordPress site. Note that this is an unofficial plugin and we cannot offer technical support for it.
Non-Adblocked Version
AuthedMine - A version of our miner that is not blocked by adblockers but requires an explicit opt-in from the end-user.