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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why so much bitcoin popularity in Russia?
by
malevolent
on 17/09/2012, 00:54:39 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/
From your own link.
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I operate a ~10k botnet using a ZeuS software I modified myself, including IRC, DDoS and bitcoin mining (13GH/s - 20GH/s atm).
13 GH/s to 20 GH/s on 10K nodes.  or ~1.65 MH/s per node.  Thanks for confirming what I wrote.


You're reading it wrong lol


10k is total # of bots.
A lot less is connected at a given moment.