Now we know that when BTCGuild is down, everyone goes to Deepbit. 51%
I went to BTCmine for just that reason...
Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 65. (Read 379078 times)
July 07, 2011, 02:06:57 AM
I went to BTCmine for just that reason...
July 07, 2011, 02:01:53 AM
Now we know that when BTCGuild is down, everyone goes to Deepbit. 51%
July 06, 2011, 08:55:49 PM
Heh.. not all pools have done that 
July 06, 2011, 08:55:00 PM
I love how everyone throws script kiddies around.
Why the heck would a botnet owner waste his time creating a pool or setting up a proxy? With a few keystrokes they can have their entire botnet mining on whatever pool they want, and never have to use their own resources.
because all the pools banned him because the pools weren't built to maintain 6k useless clients hashing away at 2MH/s Why the heck would a botnet owner waste his time creating a pool or setting up a proxy? With a few keystrokes they can have their entire botnet mining on whatever pool they want, and never have to use their own resources.
July 06, 2011, 08:52:56 PM
I love how everyone throws script kiddies around.
Why the heck would a botnet owner waste his time creating a pool or setting up a proxy? With a few keystrokes they can have their entire botnet mining on whatever pool they want, and never have to use their own resources.
Why the heck would a botnet owner waste his time creating a pool or setting up a proxy? With a few keystrokes they can have their entire botnet mining on whatever pool they want, and never have to use their own resources.
July 06, 2011, 08:49:49 PM
sad to think that the only reason this could be detected is because of the ill configuration of the miners...
hell all he'd have to do to avoid this is setup his own private pool, or if he really wanted, set up a proxy in between his miners and the pool...
but I guess that requires you to have an ip that all the bots can connect to, possibly implicating someone
this just screams script kiddie to the max, has unimaginable power with a botnet, yet seems unable to program something as simple as a bitcoin proxy.
Script Kiddie: "Hrm... all the pools keep banning me! What do I do!?!?!one!?!?!"
Script Kiddie: "There must be some way to keep them from detecting my botnet..."
Script Kiddie: "Ahhh fuck it, there's this nice easy shiny DDOS button on my botnet controller"
hell all he'd have to do to avoid this is setup his own private pool, or if he really wanted, set up a proxy in between his miners and the pool...
but I guess that requires you to have an ip that all the bots can connect to, possibly implicating someone
this just screams script kiddie to the max, has unimaginable power with a botnet, yet seems unable to program something as simple as a bitcoin proxy.
Script Kiddie: "Hrm... all the pools keep banning me! What do I do!?!?!one!?!?!"
Script Kiddie: "There must be some way to keep them from detecting my botnet..."
Script Kiddie: "Ahhh fuck it, there's this nice easy shiny DDOS button on my botnet controller"
July 06, 2011, 07:41:30 PM
Well I guess if the botnet was poorly configured and only netting a few Ghash it really wasn't worth having around if all it was really doing was gumming up the system. I was thinking it was in the 10s - 100s of Ghash and netting us blocks like crazy. So had it been asking for a proper amount of work, and completing it appropriately, would this thread even exist or would we be carrying on business as usual?
Well, it might have been business as usual -- not that I question eleuthria's motives, though. I'm just guessing a botnet that wasn't making such a massive resource drain and generating so much log activity might have gone unnoticed for longer.
July 06, 2011, 07:29:29 PM
Well I guess if the botnet was poorly configured and only netting a few Ghash it really wasn't worth having around if all it was really doing was gumming up the system. I was thinking it was in the 10s - 100s of Ghash and netting us blocks like crazy. So had it been asking for a proper amount of work, and completing it appropriately, would this thread even exist or would we be carrying on business as usual?
July 06, 2011, 07:10:52 PM
So um, why exactly are botnets bad, wouldn't the additional hash power be beneficial for our cause? Could the stats of the botnet please be posted so we can all get a better understanding of what the network was doing and why it had to be rid of?
Total Mhash toward pool
Total bandwidth of pool server(s) used (amount in percentage as well)
Blocks found
coins generated
shares
number of workers
Also, if bandwidth was the ultimate issue, what if the zombie network funneled work to a server of the hacker. Would it have been better for the hacker to create his own pool, or could the hacker have have lumped all the data and submitted it to the pool from a single location, thus lessening the load of the BTC G server that would otherwise have to deal with multiple connections to thousands of individual miners?
Total Mhash toward pool
Total bandwidth of pool server(s) used (amount in percentage as well)
Blocks found
coins generated
shares
number of workers
Also, if bandwidth was the ultimate issue, what if the zombie network funneled work to a server of the hacker. Would it have been better for the hacker to create his own pool, or could the hacker have have lumped all the data and submitted it to the pool from a single location, thus lessening the load of the BTC G server that would otherwise have to deal with multiple connections to thousands of individual miners?
This one is particularly bad because it was horribly misconfigured and asking for more work than it was ever going to give back. CPU's aren't very efficient miners even when properly configured and the trojan package obviously didn't gauge the performance of the CPU and take any steps to optimize it's performance.
Total Mhash toward pool: bitcoin.lc said it was about 6k clients, so * 5-10 mh depending on CPU = 3-6Gh is my guesstimate
Total bandwidth used: 6000 clients would probably make a noticeable difference but supporting miners doesn't take a lot of bandwidth
Blocks found: horribly misconfigured clients hurt honest miners by causing idles thus slowing down block solving
July 06, 2011, 07:09:10 PM
If the botnet is bringing in block after block that the pool gets to share, then it would be beneficial to those who have less powerful PCs. I'd be more worried about botnets on a competitor's pool.
July 06, 2011, 07:06:26 PM
Brand new server is being setup in a different facility. Fatter pipes, they're not afraid of helping someone with a DDoS (whereas many other hosts would prefer a person who attracts DDoS's would GTFO).
July 06, 2011, 06:56:24 PM
So um, why exactly are botnets bad, wouldn't the additional hash power be beneficial for our cause? Could the stats of the botnet please be posted so we can all get a better understanding of what the network was doing and why it had to be rid of?
Total Mhash toward pool
Total bandwidth of pool server(s) used (amount in percentage as well)
Blocks found
coins generated
shares
number of workers
Also, if bandwidth was the ultimate issue, what if the zombie network funneled work to a server of the hacker. Would it have been better for the hacker to create his own pool, or could the hacker have have lumped all the data and submitted it to the pool from a single location, thus lessening the load of the BTC G server that would otherwise have to deal with multiple connections to thousands of individual miners?
Total Mhash toward pool
Total bandwidth of pool server(s) used (amount in percentage as well)
Blocks found
coins generated
shares
number of workers
Also, if bandwidth was the ultimate issue, what if the zombie network funneled work to a server of the hacker. Would it have been better for the hacker to create his own pool, or could the hacker have have lumped all the data and submitted it to the pool from a single location, thus lessening the load of the BTC G server that would otherwise have to deal with multiple connections to thousands of individual miners?
Could you please explain, why additional hashpower is good for you?
It increases difficulty, lowering your income, etc.
Botnets produce a lot of hash power, without someone who has to care energy prices, hardware costs, etc.
Would it be good for your company, if all concurrents didnt have to pay for their employees?
?But if you prefer that a botnet with enough hashpower, lets say 10THashs increases the difficulty in a way, that everyone who has to pay electricity bills has to shut down his rigs ...
July 06, 2011, 06:42:03 PM
So um, why exactly are botnets bad, wouldn't the additional hash power be beneficial for our cause? Could the stats of the botnet please be posted so we can all get a better understanding of what the network was doing and why it had to be rid of?
Total Mhash toward pool
Total bandwidth of pool server(s) used (amount in percentage as well)
Blocks found
coins generated
shares
number of workers
Also, if bandwidth was the ultimate issue, what if the zombie network funneled work to a server of the hacker. Would it have been better for the hacker to create his own pool, or could the hacker have have lumped all the data and submitted it to the pool from a single location, thus lessening the load of the BTC G server that would otherwise have to deal with multiple connections to thousands of individual miners?
Total Mhash toward pool
Total bandwidth of pool server(s) used (amount in percentage as well)
Blocks found
coins generated
shares
number of workers
Also, if bandwidth was the ultimate issue, what if the zombie network funneled work to a server of the hacker. Would it have been better for the hacker to create his own pool, or could the hacker have have lumped all the data and submitted it to the pool from a single location, thus lessening the load of the BTC G server that would otherwise have to deal with multiple connections to thousands of individual miners?
July 06, 2011, 06:41:44 PM
Way to be a troll. I'm just wishing the guy well - not literally praying that the Internet Gods resolve the issue.
I wish the guy well as well, I just don't think praying will accomplish much.
But I do agree with you about letting us know if we can help (hopefully we all agree with this)
July 06, 2011, 06:07:10 PM
Watching thread.
He is probably watching the website also...no wait maybe his Internet only works for the Bitcoin forums. July 06, 2011, 05:00:42 PM
Excellent idea - praying will cause the electrons, that make up the bits, that make up the bytes, that make up the packets, that make up the DDoS flood simply vanish!
Way to be a troll. I'm just wishing the guy well - not literally praying that the Internet Gods resolve the issue.
July 06, 2011, 04:49:03 PM
Excellent idea - praying will cause the electrons, that make up the bits, that make up the bytes, that make up the packets, that make up the DDoS flood simply vanish!
July 06, 2011, 03:52:28 PM
:HUG: Good luck with this. If there's anything we (regular users) can do besides wait and pray, let us know.
July 06, 2011, 03:50:45 PM
Banning Bots is the only acceptable thing. They lower the profit of real miners and this makes people leaving the bitcoin network. The only way bitcoins can be successful is having many people believing in the network.
I will also never go to a pool, who let Botnets mine with them. So big respect to you for banning and fighting Botnets. I will definitly stay at your pool with every miner in my rig.
I will also never go to a pool, who let Botnets mine with them. So big respect to you for banning and fighting Botnets. I will definitly stay at your pool with every miner in my rig.
July 06, 2011, 03:38:54 PM
Watching thread.
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