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Re: Why so much bitcoin popularity in Russia?
by
malevolent
on 16/09/2012, 18:17:44 UTC
How would this hit bitcoin ?

Don't you think this will stop gradually once mining goes ASICs ?
They make their own ASIC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104680.0

I doubt the ASIC owners will allow themselves to be hacked and unaware that someone uses their hardware to mine BTC.
Once ASICs are common (1TH/s for $30k) most botnet operators will cease making substantial profits from mining due to huge difficulty increase.