> FBI assesses with high confidence that [...] malicious actors can [...] use botnets to generate bitcoins.
As far as I understand bitcoin (which isn't too far, admittedly), the generation of bitcoins is actually encouraged, and only possible within some well-defined boundaries which basically just ensures that bitcoins are put into circulation up until it hits the fixed limit. Maybe someone could clear that up for me? In that case the "malicious actors" would actually be performing a useful service for the bitcoin ecosystem.
As far as I understand bitcoin (which isn't too far, admittedly), the generation of bitcoins is actually encouraged, and only possible within some well-defined boundaries which basically just ensures that bitcoins are put into circulation up until it hits the fixed limit. Maybe someone could clear that up for me? In that case the "malicious actors" would actually be performing a useful service for the bitcoin ecosystem.