Bitcoin mining efficiency and Botnets

[coderman]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Cathal Garvey
<cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
>....
> People focus too much on the "profit" miners make, and not the
> verifiability and anarchism they are supposed to be providing to the
> bitcoin network.

this is why it is useful to run a bitcoind and contribute to the
network, even if you do not mine.

as for contributing with a CPU or GPU it is simply not worth the power cost.

buy coins and run nodes; participate in the digital economy!



mining was always intended as a bootstrap, not a means unto itself...