On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 06:41:14AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > Sure, wallet theft is more akin to a heist and could net massive gains if you > pick your target well. Is there any malware that actively looks for and > steals wallets? I don't know, probably. >
searching the web for bitcoin stealing malware returns a lot of results, some are from 2014. > Still, with a big enough bot net doing your mining and paying for the wattage > i imagine it adds up. I wouldn't mind owning one :) > i am not sure mining on a botnet is the best way to profit from it. AFAIK, conventional CPUs are not efficient for mining, far worse from ASIC/FPGA?? or good video cards. probably the Internet Of Things will change this, allowing to install few ASIC miners to the rooted box. > It seems bitcoin is pretty resilient to other attacks on subtle features... > although i'm not that well versed in the subject. i am not familiar with bitcoin, but AFAIK it is something like "advanced socialism" by design. "consensus" of something like 50+% allows fucking up with coins and transactions and there already was a controversy about a "corporation of miners" abusing this unless i am mistaken.
