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January 09, 2014, 04:04:45 AM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25653664

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"Generating bitcoins is basically guessing numbers," said Amichai Shulman, chief technology office of security firm Imperva.

It's just a big guessing game people! lol

Are botnets even worth mining bitcoins anymore? even with say 2 million infected shit 2 cpu pc's chuggin' away?

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Some experts estimate that such networks could be generating as much as $100,000 (£60,000) each day.

I dunno lol

Edit: It could just be it was a botnet mining a cpu based crypto , using bitcoin as the scapegoat here..

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January 09, 2014, 04:06:40 AM
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It's probably litecoin, but no one knows the difference.

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January 09, 2014, 04:07:21 AM
Last edit: January 09, 2014, 10:46:53 AM by Mowcore
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yeh, that thought just came to me  Wink

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January 09, 2014, 10:08:14 AM
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BBC, the Fox News of Britain Cheesy
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January 09, 2014, 10:12:54 AM
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Some experts estimate that such networks could be generating as much as $100,000 (£60,000) each day.

Wow, just wow. "Some expert", "could be", "as much as".  Grin
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