renting don't work anymore, like it worked before, yes there is still some tiny profit to be made with the correct altcoin, but not always
for loco for example there was a massive renting, look now, they are selling below their renting price, coin is worthless
this coin is minable with gpu, so i don't think the current hash is governed by botnet
I think it's doubtful that anyone running a botnet is going to target a cryptonote coin to just hold and wait hoping that it might not be one of the dozens of other cryptonote coins that end up going nowhere.
Like I said someone mined this, in his datacenter, with 90% of the network's hash power for at least a day.
I don't know if he's still mining --- I've stopped observing it for now.
yes is the guy who made 5k early, but who care, i have 2k myself, andif he made another 5k meanwhile, it's still pretty balanced