I was wondering...
Could the 'blockchain' be a botnet where people 'willingly' infect their computers with the mining/botnet software and where 'solving' is hacking something (like bank accounts)?
Blockchain = Botnet?
7 years ago by driesba (34)
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As cryptocurrencies are fairly new, I expect to see something pop-up in the near future. Golem for instance; wonderful design, but since its decentralized theres no way to prevent the usage. I wouldnt be surprised to hear somewhere down the line the network was rented to crack hashes or some other form of high computation required attack. I can't say much about a "botnet" as i'm not entirely sure if code can be executed during computation.
It's safe to say these acts will be performed elsewhere if not readily usable on the blockchain.
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Definitely something to think about!
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Blockchain is just a buzz word to describe decentralized databases secured by cryptographic algorithms.
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