ReALeST
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- May 16, 2012
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and the nobile prize for maths goes to jazzc!So much misinformation in this thread. Tons of money made from botnets, bitcoin is open source and hackers control it, bitcoin is shady, the world is ending etc... ffs
Let 's do some math
CPU mining is worthless today. A consumer grade i7 does around 10Mhashes/sec (all cores). This means that with todays difficulty factor, it needs 4.5 fucking years to make 1 Bitcoin. In other words you need 1500 i7 CPUs working 24/day to make 1 BTC.
From the article, it shows the malware is doing full CPU utilization (so probably no GPU but doesn't really matter). When your PC is useless and makes big noise and heats up, do you leave it open for 24h?
So, let's say the average user needs a half a day of having the computer running to get help and clean it. Now you need 3.000 infected PCs to make 1BTC in one day. And they only last a day, so you constantly need to infect more. With 24k clicks/day and assuming he 's using a driveby exploit with 10% infection (i.e. good but not zero day), he 's getting 2400 new PCs per day.
Hooray, 0.8 BTC per day! You 'd risk going to jail for $115/day for a month or so?
Good luck with the javascript miners on your sites btw.![]()
Thanks for doing all the maths man...i admint...it was kinda dumb making asssumptions b4 calculating n stuff..hehe..what do u think of other BTC folowers though?...like litecoin...