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Topic: Botnet woes (Read 740 times)

newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
July 05, 2011, 02:14:10 PM
#5
I'm not even sure how solo mining works.  Aren't you competing with all the pools for discovering the blocks?  If so, wouldn't your chance of success, even with a 5GH/sec setup be very very small?

BTW, this is the suspected botnet: http://eligius.st/~artefact2/3/14j7N9wPPy2P2UPixzTgWJmMsUSGJAfM1Z

This account was not active until a few hours after a botnet was purged from btcguild.  This guy sprung up from nowhere and is hashing at an almost identical rate.

I would notify the admin on this forum, but it appears that I am relegated to posting on the newb forum for a while.

-zen
legendary
Activity: 1204
Merit: 1000
฿itcoin: Currency of Resistance!
July 05, 2011, 02:08:29 PM
#4
SOLO MINING!
hero member
Activity: 927
Merit: 1000
฿itcoin ฿itcoin ฿itcoin
July 05, 2011, 01:35:23 PM
#3
Solo mining here we come!
newbie
Activity: 20
Merit: 0
July 05, 2011, 01:34:43 PM
#2
it looks like deepbit is also down D:
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
July 05, 2011, 01:23:22 PM
#1
Well, after the botnet was banned from btcguild, a DDoS was launched to take down that pool.  I moved to eligius pool, and now it appears as if the botnet has moved over there for mining at 22GH/s.   >.>

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