This is something that we will see happen more and more in the future. We are moving slowly to a more decentralized infrastructure than the current one, it's on

This is something that we will see happen more and more in the future. We are moving slowly to a more decentralized infrastructure than the current one, it's only plausible that malware writers will adopt more decentralized techniques. I would probably use another crypto. Dogecoin would probably allow for a bigger payload at a smaller price. Eliminating the api calls described could be possible by implementing such a thing on ethereum, including a full client and running it in light mode. However the described method is much more light-weight