Large botnet taken down, Monero hashrate drops
Looks like the botnet was mining on the two largest pools.
https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-largest-botnet-taken-down-as-alleged-chinese-mastermind-arrested-and-29m-in-cryptocurrency-seized-13145394Open linkView original on monero.town
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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.
Buying XMR from exchanges with the money it would cost me to mine would result in me having 4 times as much XMR in the future at that value, so it's still not a viable proposition
Might as well just invest then…