Stopping botnet activity

[degeri]

We do not have a huge risk of being used by botnets since decred is not that profitable to mine using GPU and CPU. But this does not mean someone will not try to point their botnets to mine decred.

There are few ways to detecting and stopping botnets from being used.

1. Limit the number of unique IP address that mine to a single decred address.

2. Do analysis of the hash rate contributed. A botnet has a few telltale signs.

• Hash rate ebbs and flows in small increments which is unusual with ASIC miners.
• Uneven mining. You would see increased or decreased activity during weekends, or you might also see huge drops during Christmas etc.
• The hashrate changes according to which timezone is having their PC's on.

This does not have to be addressed right way. This is not a big issue, its just something we need to be aware of.