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eric_bullington
on Nov 16, 2012
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Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [p...
I think the comment is referring to opportunity cost, since botnet's can also be used for other profitable activities, which may bring in more money than bitcoins (such as renting them to interested parties).
avar
on Nov 16, 2012
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Generating Bitcoins is CPU or GPU bound. There's a lot of profitable things you can do with botnets that don't compete for those resources.
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