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Topic: Co-ordinated DDoS on multiple mining pools - page 2. (Read 4596 times)

legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1016
Strength in numbers
I don't know, but I wish I did.

I hope some miners learn to have backup plans for when their pool goes down so the network can laugh at such an attack.

A coordinated attack against the major mining pools will leave most miners clueless.

Every pooled miner should be capable of solo mining at the proverbial flip of a switch. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening. Many don't really care about the health of the network, they care about a quick, easy buck. (Not realizing the quick easy buck might go away if the network is vulnerable to attacks.)

Surely anyone with much power is smart enough to switch to individual mining automatically, no?
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1016
Strength in numbers

The ramp up the reported spiked after the difficulty increased. It wasn't real, but only an effect from their bad formula. They assume current difficulty backward past the increase and get a wrong number until enough time has passed to get the inaccurate assumption out of their equation.

But maybe something is going on now. Deepbit is gone?
newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
The attack doesn't seem very well-informed.

Slush's web interface was having serious problems hours before miners using slash's pool were unable to get work.

Of course, it's been almost an hour since a miner pointed at slash's pool could get work, from my network node anyway.

EDIT: fix misspelling of Slush
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
I don't know, but I wish I did.

I hope some miners learn to have backup plans for when their pool goes down so the network can laugh at such an attack.

A coordinated attack against the major mining pools will leave most miners clueless.

Every pooled miner should be capable of solo mining at the proverbial flip of a switch. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening. Many don't really care about the health of the network, they care about a quick, easy buck. (Not realizing the quick easy buck might go away if the network is vulnerable to attacks.)
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1016
Strength in numbers
Where did you get your data on the ramp up?
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo

and the abnormal ramp on hash-power before the last difficulty rise coincidence?

Is it possible some well-organised entity is probing bitcoin network for weaknesses ... the mining pool attacks are most definitely co-ordinated.

Gathering network intel before speaking with lead developer?

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