I am working on a coin that gives the same rewards to all the miners, so it wont be attractive to any of the big farm guys. I will probably have to enforce a limit of one account per IP address though, so somebody who can get a bunch of IP addresses would be able to mine more.
Would that be OK?
James
P.S. There wont be any presale, just a few percent (combined) of mined output to founder, pool fee, bounties and donation. Nobody will have a large amount of coins
You can make it cpu only, very small memory and maybe cpu usage too and you can call it botnet coin.
I still think that the big guys mining HVC are botnets too.
There are some guys with access to 5000+ servers, I think from some universities in China. The reality is that people with more tech will be able to mine more coins, short of requiring solving captchas for each share submitted.
Somehow I think that would make mining too much of a chore
James
P.S. One twist I havent mentioned is that in order to mine the coin, you will need to have a NXT acct and NXT API running on the computer you are mining. Unless the botnet guys can somehow install NXT onto all their victim's computer I dont see how this will be a botnet coin
Solving one captcha to legitimate one miner computer is not a bad idea. Just you'll have to do it in a way that somebody "optimizing" the miner or the pool will not find a workaround.
Right now you can mine easily and anonimously on 1Gh, which can cover the botnet.
And about installing the miner... as soon as a computer is infected with the right software you can have ftp capabilities there. And as long as antiviruses know the miners that well, I guess that this was already tried....