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Modest CPUs produce bitcoins very slowly. So, there is an incentive to create a botnet to harness the power of thousands of CPUs to mine bitcoins. https://en.
by EA 14y ago
Modest CPUs produce bitcoins very slowly. So, there is an incentive to create a botnet to harness the power of thousands of CPUs to mine bitcoins.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
- dragontamer 14y agoBotnets make a ton more money by just ad-clicks anyway. I bet its more beneficial to fraudulently ad-click with botnets than it is to mine bitcoins.
- jacquesm 14y agoThere is no point in even putting together a botnet with thousands of CPUs anymore, a couple of FPGAs or an ASIC based solution would run rings around that botnet. Ok, an ASIC will cost a bit of money and a botnet is free but the difference in performance is such that only a very large botnet would be worth it and those can probably be monetized more effectively in other ways.