Bitcoin mining efficiency and Botnets

[Joseph Holsten]

On 2013-10-15, at 00:45, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com> wrote:

> http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/zeroaccess-bitcoin-botnet-sinkholed-128331?ModPagespeed=noscript
> 
> does this mean that Bitcoin miners who want to make a profit
> are going to need to dump general-purpose machines in favor of specialized hardware
> such as FPGAs or ASICs?

Yes. They already have.
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~j
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