Did anyone do an analysis of how large a botnet would need to be to attack Monero?

Like, they aren't using bleeding edge ryzens

This person is a GPU miner arguing against CPUs

The biggest botnet I've seen so far was around 10 MH/s on CN/R which would translate to ~100 MH/s RandomX

Everything bigger was cloud mining

The biggest botnet I know of right now is the one at xmrpool.eu and it peaks at 35 MH/s

hey guys

talking about botnets, I'm the IT of a school and our computers got infected and have been mining ethereum for the last weeks

we are working with the police and the ISP to identify more victims

We already have lots of victim's IPs, is there any way to ask the pools to block this traffic from these IP

I know it would be smart to just block outgoing traffic to the pools but we aren't allowed to mess with the schools firewall

Pools can block address they mine to

Sech1, I'm thinking botnets that aren't already targeting crypto

Or, he is I believe

So, I'm looking for some ballpark numbers on total hashpower for a large scale botnet

His point is that these botnets haven't targeted Monero but 'totally could'. I'm looking to generate an estimate of how much theoretical botnet power could actually be pointed here

Well, 1 GH/s is possible, given the azure hash rate that got pointed at monero.

And that's enough.

Do we prefer being pwned by Bitmain of Microsoft ? ^_^

needmoney90: why didn't these botnets get targeted to Monero according to them? free money for the operator

(if they set them low so that it isn't too noticeable)

I'm not sure argument-by-obscurity is reasonable here

when speaking about future threat potential, or gauging latent hashrate that could be pointed towards the network

moneromooo: The threat potential takes into account price rises, of course. I dont think that a currency of a billion dollar market cap can compete with $100b behemoths (yet)

Potential latent hashrate available is orthogonal to the future security incentive of the network. And as our security incentive rises, that latent hashrate will, I assume, get pointed to us in proportion

That is to say, "The total hashpower available in the world won't change drastically in response to security incentive rises in Monero"

If you're asking me particularly about this... no idea :D

Nah, you just asked if I'd prefer to be pwned by bitmain or microsoft

Oh. About this. I don't know really.

and im pointing out that my question is more to gauge future potential resistance to those attacks, and not our current resistance

Both seem like a bad deal :/

Ah, so you are assuming that if monero were much more expensive, its hash rate would possibly go beyond what cloud could provide ?

If that's what you meant, then it's an interesting point. I've no idea how much htey would wallop with.

Seems maybe chicken and egg though. To grow, it needs to be secure.

And it turns out nothing is really.