Topic: Wonder who this solominer is? 88.6.216.9 - page 4. (Read 60508 times)
That's very possible.
Perhpas the botnet was the 600,000 infected Macs 
Could have been. Macs, while harder to p0wn are a good target because many (iMacs and MacBook pro) have ati gpus. I estimate 30,000 Gpu infected machines could have been the 1 trans miner. 
Perhpas the botnet was the 600,000 infected Macs
It's not impossible the solominer is someone with Asics already.
Might as well be Vlad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75298.msg838691;topicseen#msg838691 and his plan for a massive Asic mining farm. Even if it isn't him, it could be someone else with Asics already putting everyone who is mining out of business.
As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
One thing he might be doing IMO is spreading FUD ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_Uncertainty_and_Doubt ) in order to "invite unfavorable opinions and speculation about a competitor's product; to increase the general estimation of switching costs among current customers; or to maintain leverage over a current business partner who could potentially become a rival."
The question is only what product and which competitor? Certainly, it will be easier to get to 51% if you can scare out other miners ahead of time.
You are the one spreading FUD. Please re-read the thread you linked to, slower and more carefully. There was only discussion and speculation as to what could be done if he were to achieve 51%, NOT an outright claim that such a feat would be attempted.Might as well be Vlad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75298.msg838691;topicseen#msg838691 and his plan for a massive Asic mining farm. Even if it isn't him, it could be someone else with Asics already putting everyone who is mining out of business.
As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
One thing he might be doing IMO is spreading FUD ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_Uncertainty_and_Doubt ) in order to "invite unfavorable opinions and speculation about a competitor's product; to increase the general estimation of switching costs among current customers; or to maintain leverage over a current business partner who could potentially become a rival."
The question is only what product and which competitor? Certainly, it will be easier to get to 51% if you can scare out other miners ahead of time.
I have just read his post that he is not going to attempt a 51% attack. However, UP to his latest post and after having read the entire thread this was not very clear at all. The tone of the announcement and the replies sound rather arrogant. Even if he is claiming not to have such an attack in mind, there isn't much to stop him. It would also not be in his interest if his job is to maximize profits (as some have pointed out).
On another note, is it really proven yet that the assumed botnet has disappeared?
It's not impossible the solominer is someone with Asics already.
Might as well be Vlad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75298.msg838691;topicseen#msg838691 and his plan for a massive Asic mining farm. Even if it isn't him, it could be someone else with Asics already putting everyone who is mining out of business.
As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
One thing he might be doing IMO is spreading FUD ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_Uncertainty_and_Doubt ) in order to "invite unfavorable opinions and speculation about a competitor's product; to increase the general estimation of switching costs among current customers; or to maintain leverage over a current business partner who could potentially become a rival."
The question is only what product and which competitor? Certainly, it will be easier to get to 51% if you can scare out other miners ahead of time.
You are the one spreading FUD. Please re-read the thread you linked to, slower and more carefully. There was only discussion and speculation as to what could be done if he were to achieve 51%, NOT an outright claim that such a feat would be attempted. Might as well be Vlad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75298.msg838691;topicseen#msg838691 and his plan for a massive Asic mining farm. Even if it isn't him, it could be someone else with Asics already putting everyone who is mining out of business.
As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
One thing he might be doing IMO is spreading FUD ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_Uncertainty_and_Doubt ) in order to "invite unfavorable opinions and speculation about a competitor's product; to increase the general estimation of switching costs among current customers; or to maintain leverage over a current business partner who could potentially become a rival."
The question is only what product and which competitor? Certainly, it will be easier to get to 51% if you can scare out other miners ahead of time.
It's not impossible the solominer is someone with Asics already.
Nothing is impossible, but that is most probably not it. The botnet may have been damaged, the BIP might be causing the problem but if you had ASIC's. why would you turn off that profit. The fact that it turned off tells you a lot. Common sense still says botnet. Might as well be Vlad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75298.msg838691;topicseen#msg838691 and his plan for a massive Asic mining farm. Even if it isn't him, it could be someone else with Asics already putting everyone who is mining out of business.
As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
The 1 tran minder is not Vlad. While I do not agree with Vlad on all issues, I know that he genuinely cares for bitcoin and is smart. He would not do 1 tran blocks for obvious reasons.....As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
They stick out, and let the world know what you are doing.
It hurts bitcoin.
He is smart enough to make his hardware do blocks properly.
It's not impossible the solominer is someone with Asics already.
Might as well be Vlad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75298.msg838691;topicseen#msg838691 and his plan for a massive Asic mining farm. Even if it isn't him, it could be someone else with Asics already putting everyone who is mining out of business.
As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
One thing he might be doing IMO is spreading FUD ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_Uncertainty_and_Doubt ) in order to "invite unfavorable opinions and speculation about a competitor's product; to increase the general estimation of switching costs among current customers; or to maintain leverage over a current business partner who could potentially become a rival."
The question is only what product and which competitor? Certainly, it will be easier to get to 51% if you can scare out other miners ahead of time.
Might as well be Vlad https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75298.msg838691;topicseen#msg838691 and his plan for a massive Asic mining farm. Even if it isn't him, it could be someone else with Asics already putting everyone who is mining out of business.
As I understand it Vlad's plans are outright to get >51% of the network rate and maximize profits (see other thread).
One thing he might be doing IMO is spreading FUD ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_Uncertainty_and_Doubt ) in order to "invite unfavorable opinions and speculation about a competitor's product; to increase the general estimation of switching costs among current customers; or to maintain leverage over a current business partner who could potentially become a rival."
The question is only what product and which competitor? Certainly, it will be easier to get to 51% if you can scare out other miners ahead of time.
Although he seems to have disappeared, P2SH doesn't get the credit. Something else does.
Perhaps a quick $100+K was good enough for a few weeks work..
The issue would be invalid nodes will build a block with the bad tx. It will be orphaned and the invalid nodes will see the same bad tx as a pending tx and perpetually make new bad blocks with the same bad tx. Any out of date bitcoind will see these bad blocks as good and having the highest height and try to build off it.
New nodes will see the bad block as invalid and build off the prior block thus never get invalidated when the bad chain becomes orphaned.
I am not saying that mystery IS using an outdated bitcoind but outdated nodes will perpetually try to include the bad tx in the next block.
The 35 orphaned blocks are not a long 35 block chain they are a large number of 1,2,3 block chains.
New nodes will see the bad block as invalid and build off the prior block thus never get invalidated when the bad chain becomes orphaned.
I am not saying that mystery IS using an outdated bitcoind but outdated nodes will perpetually try to include the bad tx in the next block.
The 35 orphaned blocks are not a long 35 block chain they are a large number of 1,2,3 block chains.
But the old miners are only a small fraction of the network, and they consider the live chain to be valid too, so they will only be working on invalid blocks for a small fraction of the time. While 100% of the blocks generated on that fork will be orphaned, most of the time their current block will be the same as our current block, because our chain keeps winning because we have much more hashing power.
So, even if the 0-tx miner was using an old node for his prevHash, that old node would be right most of the time, and most of his blocks would still be fine.
Although he seems to have disappeared, P2SH doesn't get the credit. Something else does.
The issue would be invalid nodes will build a block with the bad tx. It will be orphaned and the invalid nodes will see the same bad tx as a pending tx and perpetually make new bad blocks with the same bad tx. Any out of date bitcoind will see these bad blocks as good and having the highest height and try to build off it.
New nodes will see the bad block as invalid and build off the prior block thus never get invalidated when the bad chain becomes orphaned.
I am not saying that mystery IS using an outdated bitcoind but outdated nodes will perpetually try to include the bad tx in the next block.
The 35 orphaned blocks are not a long 35 block chain they are a large number of 1,2,3 block chains.
New nodes will see the bad block as invalid and build off the prior block thus never get invalidated when the bad chain becomes orphaned.
I am not saying that mystery IS using an outdated bitcoind but outdated nodes will perpetually try to include the bad tx in the next block.
The 35 orphaned blocks are not a long 35 block chain they are a large number of 1,2,3 block chains.
Except that he wasn't including any transactions, so he wouldn't include the poison transaction or any that depend on it.
But if his bitcoind is out of date he would see the invalid block as valid and continue to build upon that making any block he generates invalid (tx or not). A block built on an invalid block is by definition invalid.
But the majority of the network would overrule him and even his broken node would have the correct current latest hash most of the time. He would need to be using a node that not only is still accepting invalid blocks, but is only accepting invalid blocks. I don't think that the recent changes have orphaned any old versions; my old 0.4.0 node is still going strong.
Also, the graphs don't show a sharp transition on the 1st. Does anyone know when the first orphan fork happened?
Except that he wasn't including any transactions, so he wouldn't include the poison transaction or any that depend on it.
But if his bitcoind is out of date he would see the invalid block as valid and continue to build upon that making any block he generates invalid (tx or not). A block built on an invalid block is by definition invalid.
I don't understand the broken-ness well enough to explain it, but the smarter-than-me developers in bitcoin-dev said the script is invalid in some subtle way that the current bitcoin versions recognize and reject and that old bitcoin versions don't recognize and think is valid.
Sounds to me that this transaction was intentionally created to put MM out of business for a while and to do exactly what it is doing to miners who didn't upgrade.
Except that he wasn't including any transactions, so he wouldn't include the poison transaction or any that depend on it.
Network hashrate is still at ~11-11.5GH excluding the badluck, I dont think that Mystery miner is gone unless some other mysterious 1-1.5TH user replaced him.
Oh I forgot to tell everyone. My 30 BFL Rig Boxes finally arrived and I just happened to power them up on 1 April.
This nice little graph would seem to indicate otherwise....
Simple, lets look at the end of this diff adjustment. If hashrate is still ~11-11.5TH which I suspect it would be I highly doubt it was suddenly replaced with the last 7days by new miners rather than just variance even out for next difficulty adjustment.
If the hashrate is lower well then we have our answer, MM got hit by a baby fatality.
Now we just need to bring out a new BIP patch whenever some suspected botnet appears, if it did crush their botnet setup it would seem to be a huge job to update them
Is MM still mining, and if so, is he still extending his mining /or botnet operation?
Doesnt look like it:
Network hashrate is still at ~11-11.5GH excluding the badluck, I dont think that Mystery miner is gone unless some other mysterious 1-1.5TH user replaced him.
You are looking at the 1 TX blocks, its pretty obvious that is gone but the hashrate isnt.
Oh I forgot to post that I fixed my software patch:
I'm working on a patch that solves block hashes analytically without requiring to brute-force SHA. Then, you simply set the blocktime variable to the desired value and off you go.
I'm in the testing phase right now, set it to 1 block per hour, just to make sure I won't destabilize the bitcoin enterprise, but I still need to add tx to the equation; people seem to get uncomfortable with all these zero tx blocks right now.
Well, once I fixed that I will offer the patch for just $9.95 to everybody!
I'm in the testing phase right now, set it to 1 block per hour, just to make sure I won't destabilize the bitcoin enterprise, but I still need to add tx to the equation; people seem to get uncomfortable with all these zero tx blocks right now.
Well, once I fixed that I will offer the patch for just $9.95 to everybody!
Just not sure if I'm ready to make it available to the public yet
Variance and stuff (the answers to anything BTC related).
Network hashrate is still at ~11-11.5GH excluding the badluck, I dont think that Mystery miner is gone unless some other mysterious 1-1.5TH user replaced him.
Oh I forgot to tell everyone. My 30 BFL Rig Boxes finally arrived and I just happened to power them up on 1 April.
This nice little graph would seem to indicate otherwise....
Network hashrate is still at ~11-11.5GH excluding the badluck, I dont think that Mystery miner is gone unless some other mysterious 1-1.5TH user replaced him.
Oh I forgot to tell everyone. My 30 BFL Rig Boxes finally arrived and I just happened to power them up on 1 April.
Is MM still mining, and if so, is he still extending his mining /or botnet operation?
Doesnt look like it:
Network hashrate is still at ~11-11.5GH excluding the badluck, I dont think that Mystery miner is gone unless some other mysterious 1-1.5TH user replaced him.
You are looking at the 1 TX blocks, its pretty obvious that is gone but the hashrate isnt.
Is MM still mining, and if so, is he still extending his mining /or botnet operation?
Doesnt look like it:
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