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Re: [ANN][SPR] SpreadCoin | True Decentralization (No Pools)
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thelonecrouton
on 19/01/2015, 12:19:29 UTC
Quote from: Wolf0 on January 19, 2015, 03:51:14 AM
Quote from: thelonecrouton on January 19, 2015, 03:26:01 AM
Quote from: Gladimor on January 19, 2015, 01:40:03 AM
Anyone think we should put together a community bounty fund for an improved GPU miner?

I'd rather pay for a true CPU only solution.

Impossible. What you CAN do, is make GPU simply not worth it. But it's a really stupid idea - botnets will then dominate the hashrate if your coin has any value.

EDIT: Shit, what am I saying, I'm better at CPU dev than GPU dev. Disregard my last.  Cheesy

Please explain to me why CPU mining is prone to botnet subversion but GPU or ASIC mining is magically not.

If it's connected to the internet, it's hackable. CPU/GPU/ASIC makes no damn difference. If an attacker has control of your box, and your mining software, then they have control of your mining hardware too whatever that might be.