Cryptojacking tutorial

This tutorial is a cryptojacking how-to detailing exactly what you need to setup an opt-in WordPress Coinhive miner for the Monero cryptocurrency.

The 4 basic steps are:

Get a mymonero.com account.
Get a coinhive.com account.
Customize JavaScript code.
Add JavaScript code to your site.

Get a mymonero.com account

Navigate to https://mymonero.com.
Create an account.
Copy down your Private Login Key.
Store your Address.

Private Login Key

Cryptojacking How To: MyMonero Private

Address

Cryptojacking How To: MyMonero Address

Get a coinhive.com account

Navigate to https://coinhive.com.
Create an account.
Navigate to https://coinhive.com/settings/payments.
Paste your MyMonero address into the Monero Payment Address.
Click Save Payment Settings.

Cryptojacking How To: Coinhive

Customize JavaScript code

Navigate to https://coinhive.com/settings/sites.
Copy the Site Key (public).
Then customize the JavaScript code below by substituting the Site Key in line 3.

Cryptojacking How To: Coinhive Site Key

Add JavaScript code to your site

If you're using a WordPress site, there are WordPress plugins that should make this super easy to configure.

However...

If you don't want to install yet another plugin to simply add JavaScript to your posts, here's what I did...

Install the Ad Inserter WordPress plugin.
Ad Inserter provides many advanced options to insert any JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP or advert code anywhere on the page.
In your WordPress Admin page, go to Settings > Ad Inserter.
Add your JavaScript snippet.
Set Automatic Insertion to Before Post.
Set the Posts dropdown to Individually enabled. If you want the code on all posts, change this to Individually disabled.
Click Save All Settings.
Navigate to your post, scroll to the bottom, and enable it in the post.

Ad Inserter settings

Cryptojacking How To: Ad Inserter

Enable Ad Inserter

Cryptojacking How To: Enable Ad Inserter

About the Author

Ray Li

Ray is a software engineer and data enthusiast who has been blogging for over a decade. He loves to learn, teach and grow. You’ll usually find him wrangling data, programming and lifehacking.

Comments 8

no_root
July 15, 2018 at 8:48 am

thank you very much Ray Li for this script !

.Anonymous
October 27, 2018 at 3:27 am

how to make my own coustom script for crypto jacking

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  Ray Li
  October 30, 2018 at 7:27 am
  
  To get an idea of how Coinhive accomplishes cryptojacking, you could inspect their source code. It’s written in JavaScript, so presumably you could just debug the code that is executing in your browser to get some ideas. Then put together something similar.
  
  You could also check GitHub for others that may have done this before: https://github.com/search?q=coinhive.
  
2. Aditya Rwt
  February 21, 2020 at 1:35 am
  
  I also want to know if you get the amswer please mail me.
  
ligamor
March 13, 2019 at 9:37 am

i will like to know how i can use this your script to create a cryptojacking script that can be adder to an application like a windows application

1. Hehe He
  March 4, 2022 at 11:31 pm
  
  Buddy did you figure it out? I’m also trying to do something similar and It’ll be great help for me if you are kind enough to guide me. Please.
  
pradyumn agrawal
July 15, 2020 at 11:45 am

“Then customize the JavaScript code below by substituting the Site Key inline 3”
please explain this in detail I didn’t understood

Blaise Thompson
March 12, 2021 at 11:20 am

Do you have to put monero mining pool?