Topic: delete this. double posted. (Read 2650 times)

Cool story bro. You're only seeing this because you want to see it. Analyse most of the threads objectively (you'll need to get someone else to do this for you) and you won't find any of that shit at all (I just did it for you).

Since when does posting on a forum mean you can use a straw man?? 

ATI has 24% market share overall. Most of those would be low-end cards not very useful for mining. NVIDIA cards aren't very useful for mining, and low end ones are completely useless. Most PCs will have integrated Intel graphics. Unusable.

Botnets tend to target PCs running unpatched windows XP. These PCs tend to have older hardware.

GPU mining can take some effort to set up manually, and can have issues with driver versions and such. GPU mining causes very noticeable performance problems and in many cases system instability. Hardware-accelerated video (eg. on youtube) can sometimes completely freeze the system if mining at the same time. Other programs are guaranteed to freeze the system with certain setups. When someone's PC starts running like a piece of shit they tend to install firewalls/get it wiped/replace it with a mac. If the user notices a fan running loudly at all times they will probably shut down the PC as soon as they're done using it to make the noise go away.

So yes, including GPU mining in your botnet is a nice way to cause your botnet to shrink and disappear.

CPU mining on the lowest priority would almost certainly go undetected. (CPU fans tend to be quieter).

I am sure that with your phearsome programming skillz all these problems will magically vanish.

It's either a CPU botnet (equivalent to under 500 GPUs) or complete BS.

he already told us it was magic..... didn't you read? There's even fancy graphics to help explain how the magic works.

How did you setup 20,000+ machines in two weeks?

That means you setup 59 mining rigs an hour, 24 hours a day for 14 days.

I don't know about your government, but my government is building a FTTH network for more than 93% of the population just to make sure that we have good internet. They have made suggestions that they consider it to be a "right". If they started terminating connections at random (and they don't have the legislative power to do this) then they would fuck up a lot of business and lose the next election.

If democracy doesn't work in your country, move to a better one.

BRB, shitting myself.

So you hadn't read the whitepaper yet, but managed to write both a virus and an anti-viurs:


Yeah...I figured you were just trolling!  But I appreciated the troll.  Good effort.  


Exactly, he never wrote a virus...  He just read the whitepaper!


Sure you just started writing an anti-virus.   

Very interesting read. I'm curious, what kind of results did you get with that bitcoin virus?

You just gained much respect from me for not being stubborn when you realized you were wrong.  That's not what 99% of people here would do...  Anyway, I do agree that the future of bitcoins are uncertain, for a good variety of reasons.  But I am excited about the project and its potential (not just in the black market), so we'll just have to wait and see.

Fun fact: Mt. Gox had spent over 2000 BTC on security bounties before the attack.

Source was MagicalTux, IRC in response to, I believe, someone asking why they didn't do that. They did, apparently.

Lol OP ur funny, ill just smile at you and leave this topic...

No, such a dictionary wouldn't be practical.  The SHA-256 function can use a message input size of numbers anywhere between 1 all the way to 2^64 − 1 bits and produces a digest hash output of size 256 bits.  That is a huge huge possible number of inputs, basically it is ~2^(2^64).  Now of course the size of each block of transactions is currently rarely no bigger than ~64kb.  And, keep in mind that the entire bitcoin network only *publishes* 1 solution every 10 minutes, whereby a *solution* is nothing more than a pair of one number (of a string of 1's &  0's representing all transactions after the previous block) and a nonce such that it's SHA-256 hash is a 256-bit number with a certain number of topmost bits (depending on the current difficulty...currently 53 bits out of 256 bits) equal to 0.  Do you realize how long it would take to fill up, store, or even access an inverted hash table with 2^203 inputs?  And keep in mind these solutions are utterly useless (someone in the forums a few months back mentioned possibly to break cryptographic salt, but I don't see how).  And realize that the network only produces ~6*24*356=52,560 *solutions* every year so I couldn't even begin to fill this huge table.  And please, if you are trying to build a password cracking dictionary, realize that the binary format for a block of transactions looks nothing like the ascii text of passwords (if that is what you are referring to by brute force 'dictionary').

tl;dr summary is basically that all those hash cycles spent mining bitcoins all over the world is not producing anything useful other than ensuring bitcoin network security.

(edit: I see that other people already pointed out that the bitcoin block solutions are useless, but since it took me so long to write the above, I don't feel like deleting it.  And I apologize for any typing errors, since it is late at night.)

Silk road much ? You are utterly incoherent.


The Bitcoin block chain, as a dictionary of strings that hash to values with many leading zeros, has no cryptographic significance. It's a dumb bruteforce that does not "break" anything. It's not applicable to other forms of "256 bit encryption", which SHA256 is not anyway.

LOL AWESOME POST 

do you at least get 1Ghash with 20,000 computers?

http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/90-of-companies-have-been-hit-by-hackers-0908/