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If you're using Chrome Canary with the "Unsafe WebGPU" flag turned on, yes. And it'll be a lot faster/more power hungry than before. Otherwise, nothing beyond the normal CPU based miners have been enabled.

Adaptation is the cost of progress. Browser vendors will almost certainly implement a way to prevent unauthorized use of such hardware (either by prompt like webcams or automatic detection) before this stuff becomes publicly available.



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