Would you let a legal botnet connect to your pool?
Read more here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=301468.new#newAll miners would be connecting from a single block/range of IP addresses.
If you'd like a boatload of intel i5/i7 computers running minerd.exe to connect to our pool please post below. I'd prefer altcoins or a profit-switching pool, but essentially I'm looking for a pool where I can connect multiple computers using a wallet address as the username or a pool with a worker configuration system simple enough to easily connect this many computers.
EDIT: You'll make mad fee income from this project and it has the possibility for (legal) expansion in the future. What can your pool do for my project ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
You should, IMHO, run slush's stratum proxy inside your lan and point it to a pool, so that the pool just sees a new client and your stratum proxy handles your boatload of CPUs.
edit: you will end up spending in electricity a lot more than the value of the BTCs you'll be able to mine.
spiccioli
Point noted on the stratum-proxy. And as far as electricity goes, the university gets "free" government electricity and leaves all the lights on in many buildings on all night long, it wasn't approached as a concern when this project was approved. So I'm not going to factor that in until I am approached about it. In all honesty, I don't think they'll notice, its likely going to be a drop in the bucket.
They're more excited about the compsci students managing it and the finance kids doing the taxes on what little income it produces.
The only concerns I got were from faculty/administrators were:
Don't DDOS the network
Don't create any kind of mass network security vulnerability
I've already provided the sources of cpuminer, minerd, and minerd-scrypt-jane to a professor for him to pick through the source code. He understands (for the most part) how cryptocurrencies function.