The long-running Monero (XMR) mining saga in which Japanese web developers clashed with police over cryptocurrency mining software may have come to an end last month, but the police appear to have added some intriguing code by removing the public warning. about the dangers of widgets for cryptocurrency mining.
As reported in January, the case dates back to 2017 and involved a Yokohama-based music website developer named Moroi Seiya (34), who used on its pages a cryptocurrency mining application developed by Coinhive . The widget was discontinued by Coinhive and Moroi earned only $9 XMR by running the script on his website. But back in 2018, officers fined him $900.
The police continued to crack down on the use of these mining widgets, which used site visitors’ processors to mine coins. In the case of the Coinhive script used by the Moroi, 70% of the mined tokens were distributed to the site’s publishers, and 30% to the developers.
As a result of repression National Police Department has publicly warned the developers that it considers these widgets to be viruses and posted a warning on its website entitled “Caution regarding tools used to mine virtual currencies” (mining tools).
This warning remained in effect from mid-2018 until early this year. Meanwhile, the agency was engaged in a long legal battle with the Moroi, the case moving from the civil courts to the High Court and finally to the Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled in favor of the Moroi.
Much of Morua’s legal campaign was funded by web activists and developing members of the community.
Now, as reported by ITTime, the notice appears to have been silently removed from the police website. Since January 28, the publication notes, a page search does not give anything, except for the page not found message.
However, with the tools of the Wayback Machine, managed by Internet Archive , media outlets were able to locate the page, noting that it was apparently active until January 21, when the court handed down its verdict on the case.
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