On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 04:32:58AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > > Are there stats about bitcoin fraud vs traditional financial fraud? > > Decentralization complicates things. > > Especially about fraud done by malware. > > I don't have stats but i know that fucking worm PhotoMiner (a monero miner > propagated through FTP amongst other methods) is endemic... There are a lot > of dumb shits mining monero without knowing it. > > I still see it banging on the door of FTP server trying to upload itself (and > failing and getting blocked) from at least a few hosts every day.
Mining bitcoins without knowing it is essentially non-issue compared to stealing the bitcoin wallet or abusing some subtle ``feature" of Bitcoin.