Yes, various cryptocurrency mining bots operate using the ping command to test whether their generated addresses for receiving cryptocurrency are open and active for transaction fees sustainability within shorter time interval preventing unpleasant termination scenarios.Increasing quantities results ensuring better confirmed incoming payments as larger sets travel-involving continued satisfied tuning guaranteed maintaining symmetric raw-end limits equipped automation systems integrated dynamic node-instanced policy-trading processes. Hence, prohibiting or allowing internet access control of such a bot device would still have some impact since ping requests penetrate firewalls over the TCP session in which firewall will reject all prohibited network traffic.