Quote from: neptop on June 30, 2011, 11:31:02 AM

Quote from: antares on June 26, 2011, 04:48:49 AM

has anyone ever considered that bitcoin pretty much is a botnet itself?
I mean, really, people, you are all doing distributed work which is controlled by a piece of software over the network.

To translate from the german wikipedia entry for botnet:

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A botnet is a group of software bots. these bots run on networked computers, whose network connectivity and local resources are at their disposal.

One other from the english wiki page:

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Botnets are controlled en masse via protocols such as IRC and http.

Anyone hearing a bell ringing? The only difference is that most Bitcoiners run the software willingly.

Another small, but very important difference: No C&C Server, meaning no herder.

... and the big difference is the miners get paid for work performed voluntarily ... the bot machine is a slave to someone else's control that has been stolen through force and coercion ... in fact, bitcoin net is the anti-botnet ... how long until these schmuck's with the compromised windoze shitboxes wake up to how much they are getting stolen from them Huh

ffs ... fools and their money.