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Title: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: someguy123 on February 13, 2012, 11:21:31 PM http://i54.tinypic.com/152ykg8.png
Was checking my netstat for something... to find this... My litecoin node on port 9333 connecting to a server owned by microsoft... Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: ssvb on February 13, 2012, 11:43:48 PM It's probably just some random Microsoft employee illegally abusing his office computer to dig some LTC :)
Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on February 14, 2012, 12:04:06 AM Yeah the tide proxy afaik is for the students at the MS Academy or whatever it was.
Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: cbeast on February 14, 2012, 12:08:34 AM Also remember that MS Research has some interest in cryptocurrencies.
Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: alexrussel1980 on February 14, 2012, 02:02:41 AM haha now ms coders are being paid in ltc per line of code and i heard that windows 9 will have 11 install dvds
Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: marked on February 14, 2012, 03:07:53 PM haha now ms coders are being paid in ltc per line of code and i heard that windows 9 will have 11 install dvds 2 bluray disks surely. (if 4.7Gb/disk) marked Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: DeathAndTaxes on February 14, 2012, 04:02:47 PM haha now ms coders are being paid in ltc per line of code and i heard that windows 9 will have 11 install dvds 2 bluray disks surely. (if 4.7Gb/disk) marked Spinning shiny discs at high speeds to detected physical pits by a flashlight? How delightfully archaic. My guess is Windows "9" likely will have no disk (but that won't stop the bloatware). Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: Nachtwind on February 14, 2012, 05:04:39 PM My guess: There wont be a Windows 9
After Windows 8 they have to restart the whole damn thing to make up for the shame for removing everything vital from an operation system and adding useless bullshit... Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: tiker on February 14, 2012, 06:30:22 PM I reading somewhere at MS actually has put together staff and have already started on Windows 9 & Windows 10..
The article was saying MS is working with Intel on Windows 9 with the goal of making it the first 128bit OS... and Windows 10 being the first 256bit OS... I'll see if I can dig up that article again. Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: DeathAndTaxes on February 14, 2012, 07:01:56 PM I reading somewhere at MS actually has put together staff and have already started on Windows 9 & Windows 10.. The article was saying MS is working with Intel on Windows 9 with the goal of making it the first 128bit OS... and Windows 10 being the first 256bit OS... I'll see if I can dig up that article again. I am willing to bet it was written by an idiot. Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: Nachtwind on February 14, 2012, 07:28:57 PM quite certainly...
Microsoft is of course working on versions further than 9 and 10 but wouldnt be as stupid as to announce such stuff... *just wishes Singularity was real* Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: tiker on February 14, 2012, 07:33:10 PM There's a few... just search for windows 9 128 bit..
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-mulling-128-bit-versions-of-windows-8-windows-9.ars http://www.osnews.com/story/22301/128-Bit_Support_in_Windows_8_9_ http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48294 for example.. :) Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: Nachtwind on February 14, 2012, 07:44:58 PM There's a few... just search for windows 9 128 bit.. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-mulling-128-bit-versions-of-windows-8-windows-9.ars http://www.osnews.com/story/22301/128-Bit_Support_in_Windows_8_9_ http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48294 for example.. :) Yeah... but those news are from 2009... and three years are a long time. Remember 3dfx? 3 Years can be a whole lifetime... ,0) Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: marked on February 14, 2012, 08:07:46 PM There's a few... just search for windows 9 128 bit.. would have been more realistic with the 128qubit OS... marked Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on February 14, 2012, 08:42:40 PM quite certainly... Are you referring to the PC game?Microsoft is of course working on versions further than 9 and 10 but wouldnt be as stupid as to announce such stuff... *just wishes Singularity was real* Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: Nachtwind on February 14, 2012, 09:38:59 PM quite certainly... Are you referring to the PC game?Microsoft is of course working on versions further than 9 and 10 but wouldnt be as stupid as to announce such stuff... *just wishes Singularity was real* No. Have a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system%29 Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: SgtSpike on February 14, 2012, 09:42:44 PM Has anyone run the same analysis on Bitcoin nodes? See what sort of places connected IPs resolve to?
Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: film2240 on February 20, 2012, 12:35:34 AM This is turning out to be quite interesting.First GPU mining possible with LTC,now microsoft running an LTC node.LTC is certainly becoming an interesting currency for me.I want to know how to check this is cmd prompt in win 7 to see if my LTC connects to microsoft.
Sounds like that employee is mining for LTC as well. Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: DeLorean on February 20, 2012, 01:13:08 AM This is turning out to be quite interesting.First GPU mining possible with LTC,now microsoft running an LTC node.LTC is certainly becoming an interesting currency for me.I want to know how to check this is cmd prompt in win 7 to see if my LTC connects to microsoft. Sounds like that employee is mining for LTC as well. It's a command line utility called "netstat". It shows the various connections you have with their port numbers. -n is probably the switch he used. Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: Syke on February 20, 2012, 03:51:04 AM The article was saying MS is working with Intel on Windows 9 with the goal of making it the first 128bit OS... and Windows 10 being the first 256bit OS... I'll see if I can dig up that article again. I've built servers with up to 256 GB RAM. For the sake of estimates, let's say 1 TB RAM is about tops right now. That's 2^40. If we extrapolate with Moore's law, we'll max out 64-bits (2^64) in about 36 years. (Realistically it's going to be a lot longer than that) There's no way MS is going to support Win9 40 years from now. There's no 128-bit hardware in the works, so there's no point in designing 128-bit software for the foreseeable future.256-bit computing will likely never happen. Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: someguy123 on February 20, 2012, 06:55:06 PM The article was saying MS is working with Intel on Windows 9 with the goal of making it the first 128bit OS... and Windows 10 being the first 256bit OS... I'll see if I can dig up that article again. I've built servers with up to 256 GB RAM. For the sake of estimates, let's say 1 TB RAM is about tops right now. That's 2^40. If we extrapolate with Moore's law, we'll max out 64-bits (2^64) in about 36 years. (Realistically it's going to be a lot longer than that) There's no way MS is going to support Win9 40 years from now. There's no 128-bit hardware in the works, so there's no point in designing 128-bit software for the foreseeable future.256-bit computing will likely never happen. Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: illpoet on February 23, 2012, 07:23:15 AM bill gates has been gpu mining litecoins since release.
Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: BadBitcoin (James Sutton) on February 25, 2012, 01:22:16 AM yeah most likely just some students making some LTD on the side.
Title: Re: MICROSOFT RUNS A LITECOIN NODE? Post by: StewartJ on February 25, 2012, 03:27:01 AM Most likely Microsoft is simply hedging their bets with the nascent crypto-currency technology.
And there is this recurring rumor of a company wanting to buy 90% of all mined Litecoins for research and development. Well... I can dream can't I ? :) |
