How are these top 3 miners making so much hash for a cpu only coin? Why are these always billed as cpu only when there are gpu miners being devised and tested.
It's quite possible for someone to hit those speeds using EC2.
Sounds like a guy who may perhaps be using EC2 to achieve such rates.
Remember that a pool account can have up to 20 workers. The guy might have a miner.1, miner.1, miner.3 .. miner.20. Each of these can be a powerful server with 24 CPUs for example. The pool will add all of this up and display his hash as the combined total. His name is also solarsever meaning he probably powers those machines with solar energy and he therefore does not pay for electricity. The possible explanation to everything is not always the worst case scenario, although it could be that also.
Yup, and you can make it even easier by pointing all the servers at one worker, so you can image them all from the same AMI, and run minerd at startup without having some fancy system to delegate different worker names to each one.
I had about 3kH/s on EC2 for a bit, but it became unprofitable. If someone wants to acquire a large amount of the coin believing that it'll go up a lot in value, they might mine instead of buy, who knows. Or they made an optimized miner, or a GPU miner. No good way to tell.
