Bitcoin Forum

It has come to my attention that Genesis Mining is currently under DDoS, as are other legitimate cloud mining operations.
The attacks began yesterday (22December) on Nexus Mining website, and have expanded today onto Genesis Mining website.

I've been trying to gather some kind of evidence, but it's difficult to ascertain, since the attack is being orchestrated from 1000's of ip addresses.
I'm led to believe that someone at GAW thinks that these genuine operations are a threat to their Paycoin ponzi scheme and as such are carrying out these attacks.

I'm also under the impression that this is not the first time they have done this.

If anyone can help, it's frustrating for my friends who work at these operations, albeit, not a threat to the mining side (payouts are being made as normal).

Please help, whoever can. This sort form of dirty tactic is not what we need to see in crypto.
All I know is that it's not just some small-time hat doing this and that my instinct points towards GAW.

thanks.

I really doubt GAW are competent enough to orchestrate a DDoS attack. Either way, you shouldn't lay this kind of accusation at anyone without real evidence IMO.

I thought cloud ponzi's like cloudmnr.io and some other I cant recall where also under DDoS attack.
and I dont see any reason whatsoever to assume gaw is behind it.

This is so true.

I'm no GAW fan but what points to gaw?

i have no evidence whatsoever, and that's why i'm putting this out as a call for help, if anyone can exonerate GAW with evidence as to who it may be, i'll happily lock this thread.
it's affecting livelyhoods.

I think spondoolies is behind it, they do it because they are losing sales to all these cloud services.
I have no evidence whatsoever, and that's why i'm putting this out as a call for help, if anyone can exonerate spondoolies with evidence as to who it may be,..

Does that make any sense? Nope, no more than blaming BFL or gaw. Or my mother in law.

BTW, if their business is cloud-anything,  they should get a hosting service with decent DDoS protection. If the ponzi's can afford it, then surely the legitimate companies can afford it?

Exactly this... you should not blame someone with no proof at all.

In Nov this year, our services suddenly received a DDoS attack. The attack continued for many hours.

While we were being attacked, ZenCloud experienced an unplanned service outage.

Less than 10 minutes after ZenCloud's unplanned outage, the DDoS attack on Hashie stopped.

We have not experienced any further DDoS attacks to date. Draw your own conclusions.

I would conclude its likely the same group that DDoS'd both of you. What other conclusion would you draw?

You are just making some random accusations on GAW.
I believe that this is an attempt to defame GAW miners.
It would be helpful if you post the IPs from which the attach was being done, and some proof that tells us that gaw was behind this attack.