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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why so much bitcoin popularity in Russia?
by
malevolent
on 16/09/2012, 21:47:52 UTC


It is popular to target gamers and bind malware with games and cracks, especially those that are popular atm. Even if the avg. gamer gpu does 50-150 MH/s with 10k bots it would be ~1TH/s (assuming 24/7 100% use, let's say 1/3 of that is a more realistic figure).

Bitcoin botnet operators even make AMAs now:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/