How long does the transaction take to purchase the wine and what are the costs of moving it to another bonded warehouse?

I think it is a group of miners - as some are named "anonymous" and some use names on supernova. I drop to almost half the normal payout per round when they show up. Sometimes it is one or two and others a group of four or so.

If they stayed mining on the pool it would not be an issue but they only stay for between 10 - 20 mins. They do not appear to impact on the network difficulty so their hashing power is staying on the network but just on different pools.

The only way around it is to find a different pool that is not on their "circuit".

I have been mining Zen on supernova and have noticed a really irritating trend from large miners.

When there is a period of bad luck - the last few blocks are a few hundred percent over the estimated solve time then statistically the next few blocks will be solved under the estimated solve time.

These guys smash into the pool massively diluting the payout for the other miners for the blocks that will be solved in a far shorter time and then leave again, most of the time they do not even solve the blocks.

It really screws up your earnings because if you have had 1 hour of bad luck the 1 hour of good luck and you are getting far less thanks to the large miners so the total average is much less.

Most of them have hash rates so high they could mine solo and still earn 300+ zen a day.

I think that is debatable - I just had a look how HMRC deal with bitcoin and the interesting thing is this
"If a transaction is considered speculative, it may not be liable to tax at all."

https://www.taxation.co.uk/Articles/2015/03/10/332784/cryptic-currency

Considering you are speculating on the fine wine then the answer appears to be no you are not liable.
Otherwise, if it is not speculative then you are liable for capital gains.

Sounds interesting.

Just to clarify - If I am a UK resident and I buy the wine with BTC and it remains in the bonded warehouse and then I choose to sell it for GBP at a later date there is no capital gains tax or income tax to pay on the profit?

Can I move the wine to another bonded warehouse in a different country?

It looks like it is just being pumped as there is no real news to justify the sudden increase.

When a date is announced for the master nodes I would expect there to be an increase but as there is no firm date yet it is not that.

Can anyone who has been affected by the virus post the address it is trying to use so we can have a look on the blockchain to see how many BTC are moving to the addresses to gauge an idea of how big an issue it is?

The rovchris account is a hacked account.

It was mine I have sent a signed message to the mods (theymos) to claim it back.

Do not respond to rovchris it is likely to be a scammer.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is to prove I am the owner of the account rovchris - new username chrisrov
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1PcV3e3VqLeBNJnW1h5zw1mVFNHPBH4Ghd
IEkisBsZ91fztWwNbADHwvYe2tBst3Cy5reu8qobp6QnUiFso+txHQwdQzwhOLzlChhEUHaZX4aPu8wE82CFkqw=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is an unedited post with the address

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177827.msg2558694#msg2558694

The rovchris account is a hacked account.

It was mine I have sent a signed message to the mods (theymos) to claim it back.

Do not respond to rovchris it is likely to be a scammer.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is to prove I am the owner of the account rovchris - new username chrisrov
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1PcV3e3VqLeBNJnW1h5zw1mVFNHPBH4Ghd
IEkisBsZ91fztWwNbADHwvYe2tBst3Cy5reu8qobp6QnUiFso+txHQwdQzwhOLzlChhEUHaZX4aPu8wE82CFkqw=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is an unedited post with the address

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177827.msg2558694#msg2558694

I am not sure how messages work - do they require blocks to be confirmed before they can be verified?

I pasted everything back into my wallet and it verified

hmm strange

here is a new message

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Message to subStrata to confirm I own this address September 15, 2017, 08:16:21 PM
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1PcV3e3VqLeBNJnW1h5zw1mVFNHPBH4Ghd
IOGWqfO/IOfr/NyD7uWOgaoYOgE0Wj1PJpTDEqCIwG8xFFcx8zZxXdfyrH5k2u5gaudKOzu3FrM2lKnuWL4cUV4=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

thanks for responding the new message is as follows


-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is a message to subSTRATA to confirm I am the owner of this account and the date is 15/09/2017 and time 21:03 BST
Forum Time September 15, 2017, 08:02:35 PM
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1PcV3e3VqLeBNJnW1h5zw1mVFNHPBH4Ghd
IBxrvNo+btxUOuy3higKRpiO5+dvU/tzbPleaYI2ci/yB2NNALfjJp7z/X7fIbJeo7hZ8SFHJS2rsCYntXZdqhA=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is an unedited post with the address

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177827.msg2558694#msg2558694

The rovchris account is a hacked account.

It was mine I have sent a signed message to the mods (theymos) to claim it back.

Do not respond to rovchris it is likely to be a scammer.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is to prove I am the owner of the account rovchris - new username chrisrov
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1PcV3e3VqLeBNJnW1h5zw1mVFNHPBH4Ghd
IEkisBsZ91fztWwNbADHwvYe2tBst3Cy5reu8qobp6QnUiFso+txHQwdQzwhOLzlChhEUHaZX4aPu8wE82CFkqw=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is an unedited post with the address

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177827.msg2558694#msg2558694

The rovchris account is a hacked account.

It was mine I have sent a signed message to the mods (theymos) to claim it back.

Do not respond to rovchris it is likely to be a scammer.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is to prove I am the owner of the account rovchris - new username chrisrov
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1PcV3e3VqLeBNJnW1h5zw1mVFNHPBH4Ghd
IEkisBsZ91fztWwNbADHwvYe2tBst3Cy5reu8qobp6QnUiFso+txHQwdQzwhOLzlChhEUHaZX4aPu8wE82CFkqw=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is an unedited post with the address

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177827.msg2558694#msg2558694

The rovchris account is a hacked account.

It was mine I have sent a signed message to the mods (theymos) to claim it back.

Do not respond to rovchris it is likely to be a scammer.