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Monero @monero.town tusker @monero.town 6 mo. ago

Large botnet taken down, Monero hashrate drops

news.sky.com 'World's largest botnet' taken down as alleged Chinese mastermind arrested and $29m in cryptocurrency seized

Cars including a Rolls-Royce, two BMWs and a Ferrari - as well as luxury watches - are among assets that could also be confiscated.

'World's largest botnet' taken down as alleged Chinese mastermind arrested and $29m in cryptocurrency seized

Looks like the botnet was mining on the two largest pools.

5 comments

Best time to start monero mining on your old PC!! No more unfair competition
- Unfortunately, expected payout here is about 1/4 of energy cost with a machine from less than 5 years ago.
  
  You gotta look at the future price of Monero ;)
Wait, wait. So the police are helping the monero network?