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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).



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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