Large botnet taken down, Monero hashrate drops

https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-largest-botnet-taken-down-as-alleged-chinese-mastermind-arrested-and-29m-in-cryptocurrency-seized-13145394

Looks like the botnet was mining on the two largest pools.

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aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Best time to start monero mining on your old PC!! No more unfair competition

Laser@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Unfortunately, expected payout here is about 1/4 of energy cost with a machine from less than 5 years ago.

Drewski@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Laser@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y

Buying XMR from exchanges with the money it would cost me to mine would result in me having 4 times as much XMR in the future at that value, so it's still not a viable proposition

azalty@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2y

Might as well just invest then…

delirious_owl@discuss.online · 2 pts · 2y
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