Quote from: MaleVoiceJohn on June 15, 2014, 11:58:34 AM

Quote from: Keyboard-Mash on June 15, 2014, 08:20:10 AM

Botnets are a non-issue dude, they're a finite resource that most people need to pay for. Anyone owning high end GPU cards should have an antivirus .. end of story (in fact most monero virsues are picked up quite fast these days because of the unicorn botnets).

Since when botnets and virsuses stop being a problem?
Viruses makes currency using unfair. Botnets makes currency not liquid. Imo you are not right, bro.

What makes you think they're a problem for the currency? They're a problem for the person that allows themselves to be exploited, and the law by which that person was supposed to be governed by, but not the Monero currency. Unfairness is part of life.Completely removing the biggest base of the 'botnets', which are going to be guys just renting a bunch of EC2 instances and focusing only on the viral software .. just because someone gets richer than me by stealing doesn't mean I should be blaming myself for making too little, or them for too much. What I should be asking is, if they haven't been caught .. then why am I really not doing it? Why wouldn't they be richer than me? They're cheating, stealing things that nobody has 100% control over. Someone is paying for that, it is still maintained that the same market price is paid by all .. nothing is lost and this is not a violation of any physical law. Monero developers can't be crucified for this, no developers (other than the ones actually doing the stealing) can be held in contempt for that .. it just doesnt make sense. It would be neat it if we could all have the exact same processing power, but this world is far from ideal .. and rightly so otherwise we'd probably have little need of cryptocurrencies in the first place.

I just don't get to blame others for my own mental shortcomings .. at least not here in this situation. If I were to steal resources for this like them, I could only really do it by holding up a best buy and grabbing some PC parts to mine with (or spending an infinite amount of time learning programming -- time i don't have now that I have taken a different path to make my livelihood). I don't have the programming aptitude to steal someones GPU for any given about of time remotely. As such, I practically only have the ability to put a few dollars into the market and double it every few weeks though. That ability came with practice. Alternatively, I can pay attention to as much as possible, so I'm first in line when either the market or mines open up. That comes with patience. Practice and patience will often get you much further than theft alone.