On 05/17/11 02:04, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Peer to peer currency generation is something that botnets will love > to game - artificially generate cash by using other people's > computing power > > And the protocol itself might lend itself to such attacks. For > example http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=823 > > Easy way to debase a currency - allow various folks to generate lots > and lots of it > > Remember, per account limits are easily worked around by scaling to n > accounts..
Ah, the limit isn't done like that. 50 bitcoin are generated about every 10 minutes, period. The more CPU time you put in, the larger a *share* of that you get, but the global rate remains the same. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
