I've seen rates as low as a few hundred USD per week on the Russian forums. But I doubt it they (whoever it is) are paying for it. They probably have their own botnet and use it as they wish. We were actually suspecting a bitcoin miner's network to use their network to do the DDOSes as a couple of the IPs which were flagged as botnet by our firewall were matching actual player accounts. It could be a coincidence though...
Didn't know Jackpot Dice exists Giving my vote to PD due to the sleek design and the auto-play bot. Would have split between JD & PD if it was an option.
He's obviously making fake claims in an attempt to profit off the misfortune of a few sites. The attacks hitting SD,PD,JD etc are quite massive and not something someone would do for a chance to beg for a few bitcoins which myself and the owners of these sites would never hand over.
Yes. That guy was either A. someone trying to get a freebie out of the situation , or B. a decoy.