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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: ASIC Testing on Scrypt?
by
DeathAndTaxes
on 09/09/2013, 23:28:19 UTC
If a botnet is a problem then it show a flaw in the coin. Fix the coin since trying to kill all botnet is a waste of time.

I don't think that statement should even be graced with a response.
Then have fun botnet hunting with Microsoft and Kaspersky.

Ok, I'll bite. How would a coin stop from being mined by a botnet?

Produce hardware that can mine many magnitudes more efficiently than what the botnet has access to.

For the record based on the chart I seriously doubt it is a botnet in the general sense (general purpose trojan and rookit).  The day to day changes in hashing power are too consistent.  A botnet will consist of tens of thousands of nodes and the % that is online is constantly changing.  Some nodes are killed permently and the botnet is constantly recruiting new zombie nodes.  The graph looks nothing like one would expect for a botnet.

Now maybe someone misuing corporate resources?  Maybe.