5 ms·
The benefit is that the electricity bill goes to the owners of the infected computers. What does a botnet cost?
by LaRakel 14y ago
The benefit is that the electricity bill goes to the owners of the infected computers.
What does a botnet cost?
- jbri 14y agoThere's opportunity cost in using it for yourself instead of selling the use of it to other people.
- eric_bullington 14y agoI think the comment is referring to opportunity cost, since botnet's can also be used for other profitable activities, which may bring in more money than bitcoins (such as renting them to interested parties).
- avar 14y agoGenerating Bitcoins is CPU or GPU bound. There's a lot of profitable things you can do with botnets that don't compete for those resources.