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/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE