I have decided to share my idea with uncomfortable feelings. If you do not like my post, please kindly ignore it, it is just my stupid idea.

The digger might be an active botnet (trojan) master since 2014.

1. Several dug addresses were funded by mining pool, faucet, and pay to ad-click. These are generic money making methods that would be deployed on botnet zombie PCs by botnet master.

2. Someone argues that, botnet master do not have to generate many btc addresses on many zombie PCs like this. But I think, more btc addresses on more zombie IP addresses is a key success factor for his money making methods.

3. There are remaining btc (only few satoshi) on several dug addresses. It it is not worth collecting btc out from these zombie addresses with 0.0001 tx fee.

4. It is not likely that e-wallet or exchange admin or site owner will do this. Legit admin or site owner will not likely to dig clams with their non zero balance customer addresses. If all dug addresses are zero-balance, it should be possible that they are digging from idle-suspended customer file.

5. This botnet master were not intent to be clams digger before he just found out a new way to make money with clam digging in last few days ago. (or may be the insider too T.T)


I hope this could be helpful for our community to find who is this destructive digger. If not, again please ignore me.

P.S. sorry for my bad English too.