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Title: Botnet woes Post by: zenmetsu on July 05, 2011, 05:23:22 PM 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. >.>
Title: Re: Botnet woes Post by: avabit on July 05, 2011, 05:34:43 PM it looks like deepbit is also down D:
Title: Re: Botnet woes Post by: MiningBuddy on July 05, 2011, 05:35:23 PM Solo mining here we come!
Title: Re: Botnet woes Post by: ThiagoCMC on July 05, 2011, 06:08:29 PM SOLO MINING!
Title: Re: Botnet woes Post by: zenmetsu on July 05, 2011, 06:14:10 PM 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 |