https://www.coindesk.com/inside-moneros-last-ditch-effort-to-block-crypto-mining-asics
I guess not so great news for GPU miners...
Edit : but good news for Botnets
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This does raise the question : does the end justify the means ?
I guess not so great news for GPU miners...
Edit : but good news for Botnets
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Lingering concerns
Perhaps a more realistic concern in the mind of Ehrenhofer and others is the proliferation of botnets on the monero network as a result of a
CPU-friendly mining algorithm like RandomX.
Perhaps a more realistic concern in the mind of Ehrenhofer and others is the proliferation of botnets on the monero network as a result of a
CPU-friendly mining algorithm like RandomX.
This does raise the question : does the end justify the means ?
First of all who cares about the miners? It's security that matters, period.
You wanna mine and profit you are gambling, if you mine for altruism then you don't care.
And having botnets mine Monera and secure the network is always preferable to them attacking legitimate networks
So I don't see any problems at all here.
The problem with having botnets securing the network is that botnets do not have the best interest of the network at heart like normal miners do.
Miners in general behave in a way thats beneficiary for them and do not hurt their network. Botnets basicly change miner behaviour from
honest mining to selfish mining. I prefer honest mining (Bitcoin) over selfish mining (Botnet-Driven Network) any day.
Then one has to wonder if this will all be for nothing anyways, this struggle against the natural evolution of mining (ASIC).
Just my two cents on the matter...