I guess this guy switched to LTC. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/
Seems correct.
Topic: ASIC Testing on Scrypt? - page 3. (Read 17434 times)
Seems correct.
I am guessing Botnet
I guess this guy switched to LTC. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/
There are many consumer motherboards currently on the market whose chipset doesn't actually require that all 16 lanes of a PCIe x16 slot be merged to one endpoint. That means all 16 lanes can be broken out to 16 separate single-lane PCIe devices. With the correct motherboard, it works just fine to hack up some ribbon cable PCIe risers to split a single x16 slot (preferably one at the edge of the motherboard so you can position GPU's both above and below the motherboard) to 16 GPU's.
Would you please explain a bit more about this trick?
How can we find out if our MOBO has this feature?
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Saturday too... Hence, not a corporate botnet...
Seems like something really weird going on here.
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline. From Monday to Friday.
A botnet?
Hmm, but it makes no sense to hash more when computer is used more (asuming that increased traffic causes more CPU use). Graph should
be inverse of pattern you mentioned, e.g. flip the image vertically. Or is it that miner tracks CPU usage in such a way to not cause CPU and
traffic increase at usualy idle times, suspicious behaviour easily detectable by sysadmins?
Yes, assuming a desktop/laptop 24 hours on. But to save power most companies don't allow their workers to leave the computers on. That's why I said it looks like IT corporate traffic.
Intriguing.
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Maybe another rogue sysadmin at the NSA?? Jeez guys, can't you keep your house in order for like 5 minutes?
What would be the reason to move from pool to pool if not trying to evade something? Would really love to hear more from the pool operators.
I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline. From Monday to Friday.
A botnet?
+1, also LOL at tio la vara
There are professional ASIC fab companies known to be exploring Litecoin ASICS. No reason why they couldn't have built one by now and are keeping quiet.
Dude, first of all, making an ASIC for Scrypt(1024, 1, 1) is one HELL of a lot harder than making one for SHA-256d. Second, even if someone did, it wouldn't provide a massive increase over GPUs.
There are professional ASIC fab companies known to be exploring Litecoin ASICS. No reason why they couldn't have built one by now and are keeping quiet.
its a fact that its been done - people are stupid , we have learned this by observing how docile people are .
most of the population are damaged goods, unfortunately.
Most likely, it hasn't been done. I agree with your last statement, though.
Or.. someone trying desperately to get their scrypt asic settings right.
Or.. it could be someone having some cooling related issues.
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Now I'm thinking its the same hoard that was jumping in and out of the IFC network. eg. Within minutes the hashrate would jump from 20 mhash to 2100+.
Or.. it could be someone having some cooling related issues.
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Now I'm thinking its the same hoard that was jumping in and out of the IFC network. eg. Within minutes the hashrate would jump from 20 mhash to 2100+.
I give it 80 percent they are using botnet.
Variation is too constant for a botnet in the wild. Maybe a botnet on a corporate network. 
I give it 80 percent they are using botnet.
Seems like something really weird going on here.
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline. From Monday to Friday.
A botnet?
and they have left the network?! noone noticed?
He moved to liteguardian* with 1.8 Gh/s.
2344951 KH/s as of right now. It also joined Team Russia although that could just be a red herring. Judging by the way it is always bouncing around it seems to me that it is either a giant botnet, a huge pool, or a smaller pool using some sort of exploit. It also seems to be gaming the difficulty causing it to rise and fall by certain ratios. You can watch the difficulty adjustment estimates fall as its hashrate drops low on the pool then, bounce back up as it rises again. Regardless, I'm all for the Predator drone strike YipYip was talking about.
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
Quants put their FPGA clusters into mining when exchanges are closed?
Seems like something really weird going on here.
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
pool trolling other pools 
and they have left the network?! noone noticed?
He moved to litegaurdian with 1.8 Gh/s.
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