anybody hear and read..WTF..now price can hit real fast 100$ or even les..OMFG...not good for all who mine it...
It will take some time to have really powerful botnet mining Zcash. If ever.
And with the current decline of the price and growth of difficulty it may not even worth it. Coins like XMR are more stable and people say that the botnets already mine it for a long time. And then why change?
It makes more sense to think that with the hype around Zcash everybody started to mine it and also it was hugely over-valuated at launch.
The Monero is a know botnet coin for long time. It is more efficient to mine it with the CPU than the GPU.
Way more Moneros is mined with GPU then with CPU.
Average GPU mine way more Monero then average CPU. But also average CPU uses less electricity then average GPU to mine coins.
With all the hype about ZCash and the initial pump the news of botnet is a bad business for Zcash developers, they should have anticipated this and tried to prevent this from happening
All coins that are asic resistant and can be mined by CPU are also mined with botnets That is nothing new and there is nothing bad about it and botnet mining will be here forever.