Bitcoin In 2017: Fixin Ta Blow Up

[Georgi Guninski]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 04:32:58AM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> > Are there stats about bitcoin fraud vs traditional financial fraud?
> > Decentralization complicates things.
> > Especially about fraud done by malware.
> 
> I don't have stats but i know that fucking worm PhotoMiner (a monero miner propagated through FTP amongst other methods) is endemic... There are a lot of dumb shits mining monero without knowing it.
> 
> I still see it banging on the door of FTP server trying to upload itself (and failing and getting blocked) from at least a few hosts every day. 

Mining bitcoins without knowing it is essentially non-issue  compared to
stealing the bitcoin wallet or abusing some subtle ``feature" of Bitcoin.