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Title: Mr. Unknown keeps getting bigger Post by: mdude77 on May 11, 2012, 12:27:49 AM I'm not going to pretend I know what the 51% attack is, or how it works, but he, assuming it's one miner, is getting larger and larger every day.
(I apologize if this is being hashed out elsewhere...) Title: Re: Mr. Unknown keeps getting bigger Post by: rjk on May 11, 2012, 01:11:22 AM "Unknown" isn't necessarily a single entity, and often consists of mis-identified known pool blocks.
Title: Re: Mr. Unknown keeps getting bigger Post by: rampone on May 11, 2012, 01:54:57 AM And I guess some larger frams just go solo/mergedmined to pick up the extra 0.1% transaction fees, and also keep bandwidth down, as the daemons do not use up much. You might even use sattelite inet as backup, as the 1 second delay during backup times is not really bad. But another think. Is this the block from hell (got solved this moment (179628) ;)?! ;)
Title: Re: Mr. Unknown keeps getting bigger Post by: allten on May 11, 2012, 03:53:19 AM Fear of the "unknown". It's a common human response.
But yeah, I'm really curious to understand exactly what makes up the unknown. Who are they? What are their intentions? Title: Re: Mr. Unknown keeps getting bigger Post by: jarsumarsu on May 11, 2012, 05:05:15 AM Fpga/asic manufacturers piloting new products until they produce enough coins to them and the difficulty level rises enough, and then send their products to the people who have paid them a few weeks/months earlier.
Of course they want to be anonymous. They also deny everything if they are asked about it ;) Title: Re: Mr. Unknown keeps getting bigger Post by: -ck on May 11, 2012, 06:34:28 AM Fpga/asic manufacturers piloting new products until they produce enough coins to them and the difficulty level rises enough, and then send their products to the people who have paid them a few weeks/months earlier. I love that conspiracy theory. I'll buy into that :)Of course they want to be anonymous. They also deny everything if they are asked about it ;) Title: Re: Mr. Unknown keeps getting bigger Post by: lunchb0x on May 14, 2012, 01:33:10 AM If you go here http://blockchain.info/pools (http://blockchain.info/pools) and scroll down to the unknown block section, you will see that it is not one person submitting all those blocks, but is a lot of different ip addresses. if you look at the ip with the most blocks submitted, you'll see that it doesn't even match the top 5 pools in terms of blocks per 24 hours.
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