This tool has been created to block Coinhive, one of the most popular crypto-mining programs.

Coinhive is a popular crypto-mining application used by website owners to generate revenue for advertising without consent from the users. It allows web browsers to be infected with the software that does the mining. This makes the visitors' computers responsible for mining cryptocurrencies.

As CoinEater is built on a scientific research project, the algorithms have been optimized and are constantly updated to protect against all kinds of threats. CoinEater scans the Alexa Top 1 million websites and ensures that no miner has been installed. 

CoinEater is an open-source tool, the source code is available on GitHub.