Topic: Is Bitcoin currently under attack? (Read 3938 times)
Thank you for your replies, and sorry you got your bitcoins stolen!
Few days ago I have seen someone complaining about snoopy constantly contacting him while not answering any requests. Good to know what it is and who's running it. Good luck in your research.
Could you show me the post, if it's a problem on my side I'll fix it. 
Few days ago I have seen someone complaining about snoopy constantly contacting him while not answering any requests. Good to know what it is and who's running it. Good luck in your research.
The answer is yes. Bitcoin is under attack, by a small group of people who feel they are representatives of bitcoin, who have a lot to gain by being perceived as such, and who are trying to centralize bitcoin.
Can you at least tell us if you found any significant flaws in the system? 
There are no new flaws from my side, as a researcher it is my ethical duty to inform the developers of anything that I find. Otherwise I'd be unable to publish my research results 
Can you at least tell us if you found any significant flaws in the system?
Thank you, mate! And I'm feeling with you about your lost coins!
Thanks, it came really by surprise, and there I was believing I was secure... Well it goes to show that understanding something does not protect you from stupid mistakes.Anyway, sorry to have caused such an uproar, I'm just trying to improve the network, but if you still feel the need to block me I'm using the user agent string "/Snoopy:0.1/ETH Zurich/PlanetLab/"
please read this here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blockchaininfo-misreports-origins-wasswiss-university-jumps-into-mining-game-113654
Sorry about that mate. The Paper is from another group (System Security) in the University, I'm in Distributed Computing.As far as I can tell we don't have any relevant computational power working on Bitcoin, I'm just relaying the blocks faster than others in the network.
Thank you, mate! And I'm feeling with you about your lost coins!
please read this here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blockchaininfo-misreports-origins-wasswiss-university-jumps-into-mining-game-113654
Sorry about that mate. The Paper is from another group (System Security) in the University, I'm in Distributed Computing.As far as I can tell we don't have any relevant computational power working on Bitcoin, I'm just relaying the blocks faster than others in the network.
Well I was wondering how long it would take for people to notice. It's me
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
Cool. Well, today I learned a bunch of arcana about relaying versus mining blocks.
What, exactly, are you measuring? How many people are grappling with Bitcoin at ETH Zürich?
thank you! due your work I came under attack of some moderators and some pool operators (which I really like!)
Well that's a weird way to look at it. They happened to be right, and we happened to be wrong.
There is not much honor in being a fool, but there can be some merit in admitting the mistake.
Now, what we should do is learn from the experience, and only then feel good about ourselves.
Well I was wondering how long it would take for people to notice. It's me
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
thank you! due your work I came under attack of some moderators and some pool operators (which I really like!)
I can't give you the exact details of what I'm doing until it gets published. I can tell you that I participate in the network as any other node does, I'm just a very big node (5'000 connections open), and am thus considered a Hub in Blockchain.info's vocabulary
please read this here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blockchaininfo-misreports-origins-wasswiss-university-jumps-into-mining-game-113654
I'm not the only one working with such large nodes btw. There seems to be someone from the university of Munich that is doing something similar:
I wonder what they are doing :-)
I wonder what they are doing :-)
Well I was wondering how long it would take for people to notice. It's me
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
Can you somehow prove this is you doing this?
Also, what you are doing, care to "explain it like I'm 5"?
Its really him: http://www.disco.ethz.ch/members/cdecker.html
Well I was wondering how long it would take for people to notice. It's me
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
thank you! due your work I came under attack of some moderators and some pool operators (which I really like!)
I can't give you the exact details of what I'm doing until it gets published. I can tell you that I participate in the network as any other node does, I'm just a very big node (5'000 connections open), and am thus considered a Hub in Blockchain.info's vocabulary
Well I was wondering how long it would take for people to notice. It's me
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
thank you! due your work I came under attack of some moderators and some pool operators (which I really like!)
Well I was wondering how long it would take for people to notice. It's me
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
Can you somehow prove this is you doing this?
Also, what you are doing, care to "explain it like I'm 5"?
Will be interesting to see how this all unfolds.
About time a university started researching Bitcoin seriously.
Stress testing the network and protocol by a neutral party is something we should be grateful for, regardless of the immediate consequences.
If they can disrupt the network, so can others. And then I prefer this uni to do it, so we can learn from it rather than die from it.
Stress testing the network and protocol by a neutral party is something we should be grateful for, regardless of the immediate consequences.
If they can disrupt the network, so can others. And then I prefer this uni to do it, so we can learn from it rather than die from it.
the whole mining process has to be inspected. all the involved parties which producing no really value have to be sorted out!
Well I was wondering how long it would take for people to notice. It's me
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
And no I am not putting lots of hashing power to the network, notice that it just says "relayed by" and not "mined by". I'm performing some measurements, paper is due in a few weeks.
Stress testing the network and protocol by a neutral party is something we should be grateful for, regardless of the immediate consequences.
Well said. Just quoting you for reinforcement.
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