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0 pointsLaRakel13y ago0 comments

The benefit is that the electricity bill goes to the owners of the infected computers.

What does a botnet cost?

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I 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).

avar13y ago

Generating 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.

jbri13y ago

There's opportunity cost in using it for yourself instead of selling the use of it to other people.

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