Totally, I didn’t mean to sell this on the App Store, was more kinda thinking aloud how this distributed mining could possibly be used for good *insert superhero sound*.
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Apple Did Pull Calendar App That Mined Cryptocurrency From Mac App Store, Citing Excessive Use of Device Resources
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Totally, I didn’t mean to sell this on the App Store, was more kinda thinking aloud how this distributed mining could possibly be used for good *insert superhero sound*.
Personally I'd rather such groups use my CPU/GPU to data crunch useful things. Like helping process data for various disease cures. Such as the Folding@Home project.
Cryptocurrencies are useful if people accept them as exchange. Of course you get great community currencies like DogeCoin that have been used for some wonderful projects, like Doge4Water, but those are uncommon. However you can get similar fundraiser drives other ways. Events like ExtraLife, GamesDoneQuick, and many other "streaming" fundraisers. Skipping the middleman of a cryptocurrency and going directly to various internationally accepted national currencies.
rlhamil makes some great points about how to handle this, but I'd still prefer to see a clear policy of no crypto-mining whatsoever from Mac App Store apps. Experience tells me that no matter how clearly you explain what you're doing in this regard (and that's why it is free, etc) ... the first time someone's fans kick on or their Mac is perceived to be slow, Apple will get the blame and the call.
If someone chooses to install a crypto-miner (whether for themselves or to support a developer/get "premium" features in an app), I'd like to see the OS throw up a dialogue on first run (or perhaps each new run) that reminds the user of the consequences of running such an app. It's your machine and you use it however you want, but an informed user is a wiser user, and you know perfectly well that developers can't be trusted to do the "due diligence/education" needed.
If someone chooses to install a crypto-miner (whether for themselves or to support a developer/get "premium" features in an app), I'd like to see the OS throw up a dialogue on first run (or perhaps each new run) that reminds the user of the consequences of running such an app. It's your machine and you use it however you want, but an informed user is a wiser user, and you know perfectly well that developers can't be trusted to do the "due diligence/education" needed.