Popular ‘cryptojacking’ service Coinhive will shut down next week

Coinhive, a service that allows websites to use their visitor’s computers to mine cryptocurrencies, is shutting down, ZDNet reports. All of the service’s in-browser mining scripts will stop working on March 8th, and users will have until April 30th to withdraw any remaining Monero — the anonymity-focused cryptocurrency mined by the software — from their accounts.Coinhive’s service launched in 2017 as a way to mine cryptocurrency in the background of a website, turn