Yes for sure. Been a busy week!
Looks like your explorer is down?
So the botnet will be kicked due to mandatory at block 33400.
But 33400 on our chain or the bot chain?
It depends what you call botnet as it seems there has been different uses for that word around here. With the standard and used definition of what a botnet is, it's impossible to know if the miners of this/these botnet(s) were upgraded or not and are therefore on the new chain (or not). They will eventually end up upgrading anyway.
There should only have been 1 chain until block 33400. Then those who didn't upgrade would have continued mining with PoBH and those who upgraded would have gone on a new chain with PoDC.
From what I understood, the new protocol (PoDC) was supposed to kick off on block 33400 and hence should have been the splitting point between those who upgraded and those who didn't upgrade (there is no such thing as the botnet chain/non-botnet chain, etc).
That did not happen and instead there was a split between those who upgraded and those who didn't upgrade waaaaay before block 33400 for other reasons (haven't looked at the exact block but it happened at least 5 hours ago).
The block explorer is offline right now while I put it back on the chain used by people on version 1010002.
Edit: To reply to Mike even though I'm sure Rob might not agree with that as we seem to have different definition of what a botnet is.
I'm going off this definition when I am talking about botnet:
"Cybercriminals use special Trojan viruses to breach the security of several users’ computers, take control of each computer and organise all of the infected machines into a network of ‘bots’ that the criminal can remotely manage."
The botnet(s) can/will mine with PoBH if it still make sense (financially) or is still the most profitable for them. They can mine using the same software you use to mine MIP. That's why you can't stop it as you can't separate your computer for example, from a computer that has been taken control of illegitimately and is being used to mine BBP.