Someone just found a block solo mining on an Amazon EC2 Server

[Neptunium]

If you look up the relay IP of this block:
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000003787343780273c3613df094703081032a6c832fb4bf7311
https://blockchain.info/blocks/54.169.184.8

It's an Amazon EC2 server in Australia: https://db-ip.com/54.169.184.8

Someone decided it would be a good idea to solo mine bitcoin on Amazon's sever hosting and got paid 25BTC ($14,300). Pretty insane.

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[hexafraction]

If you look up the relay IP of this block:
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000003787343780273c3613df094703081032a6c832fb4bf7311
https://blockchain.info/blocks/54.169.184.8

It's an Amazon EC2 server in Australia: https://db-ip.com/54.169.184.8

Someone decided it would be a good idea to solo mine bitcoin on Amazon's sever hosting and got paid 25BTC ($14,300). Pretty insane.

How can you confirm that the block was actually mined at the EC2 server, rather than that server simply being the Bitcoin node that relayed that block in? It's not unimaginable that this particular miner may have not had a direct node connection to blockchain.info (although I cannot guess the reason or likelihood for that). The coinbase transaction refers to:

Code:

�T��viabtc.com deploy�wL�

[Neptunium]

If you look up the relay IP of this block:
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000003787343780273c3613df094703081032a6c832fb4bf7311
https://blockchain.info/blocks/54.169.184.8

It's an Amazon EC2 server in Australia: https://db-ip.com/54.169.184.8

Someone decided it would be a good idea to solo mine bitcoin on Amazon's sever hosting and got paid 25BTC ($14,300). Pretty insane.

How can you confirm that the block was actually mined at the EC2 server, rather than that server simply being the Bitcoin node that relayed that block in? It's not unimaginable that this particular miner may have not had a direct node connection to blockchain.info (although I cannot guess the reason or likelihood for that). The coinbase transaction refers to:

Code:

�T��viabtc.com deploy�wL�

Yeah I somehow didn't think of that. The address mined multiple blocks today and is probably using the EC2 servers as a node.
https://blockchain.info/address/18cBEMRxXHqzWWCxZNtU91F5sbUNKhL5PX

[yanghaipo]

This is not solo mining. It actually is a new bitcoin mining pool, we just use AWS EC2 as a relay node. our main server was in china. currently, we are still in testing our mining pool, the website is not accessible.

[P-Funk]

This is not solo mining. It actually is a new bitcoin mining pool, we just use AWS EC2 as a relay node. our main server was in china. currently, we are still in testing our mining pool, the website is not accessible.

If you've got some extra 16nm ASICs lying around, holla at me.

[aioc]

This is not solo mining. It actually is a new bitcoin mining pool, we just use AWS EC2 as a relay node. our main server was in china. currently, we are still in testing our mining pool, the website is not accessible.

This confirms everything that you cannot solo mine bitcoin anymore ,we need a specialized hardware and a pool to do that ...

[P-Funk]

This is not solo mining. It actually is a new bitcoin mining pool, we just use AWS EC2 as a relay node. our main server was in china. currently, we are still in testing our mining pool, the website is not accessible.

This confirms everything that you cannot solo mine bitcoin anymore ,we need a specialized hardware and a pool to do that ...

Get a few hundred thousand dollars worth of ASICs and try your luck.

[Kakmakr]

Those days are loooong gone now, because the difficulty is just too high. I doubt if any solo miner will ever again be able to mine a Bitcoin block on his/her own. The mining pools are simply too big and too strong for that to happen. I doubt if anyone is even attempting that, but who knows. Some people might still think they might get lucky enough and the equipment might just be laying around and they not paying the electricity bill.

I have given up on solo mining Bitcoin, years ago. ^smile^

[davis196]

If you look up the relay IP of this block:
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000003787343780273c3613df094703081032a6c832fb4bf7311
https://blockchain.info/blocks/54.169.184.8

It's an Amazon EC2 server in Australia: https://db-ip.com/54.169.184.8

Someone decided it would be a good idea to solo mine bitcoin on Amazon's sever hosting and got paid 25BTC ($14,300). Pretty insane.

This is impossible.It would be too good to be true,but it`s against amazon rules and i don`t believe it.

I have amazon EC2,but i will never use it for mining.They will ban me,i guess...

[ebliever]

I recall someone solo mined a block back in 2014 using a rented rig on Nicehash (or a competitor whose name I've forgotten....) The odds are getting very, very steep, but it's not flat out impossible.

[Moneroman88]

You could do that a couple of years ago and would hit a block once in a while, but not now. That's certainly not a true story. Solo mining is definitely pointless at this stage.

[shorena]

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is probably using the EC2 servers as a node.
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You are aware that bitcoin is a peer to peer network, right? As such any IP you see on blockchain.info just refers to their direct neighbours in the network. It would be very unlikely that each miner has a direct connection to blockchain.info. Its way more likely that the block was refered by a regular non mining node.

[lumeire]

This is not solo mining. It actually is a new bitcoin mining pool, we just use AWS EC2 as a relay node. our main server was in china. currently, we are still in testing our mining pool, the website is not accessible.

This solves it up. Care to share more info on your mining pool? Like, are you ever gonna go public?

[yanghaipo]

This is not solo mining. It actually is a new bitcoin mining pool, we just use AWS EC2 as a relay node. our main server was in china. currently, we are still in testing our mining pool, the website is not accessible.

This solves it up. Care to share more info on your mining pool? Like, are you ever gonna go public?

Yes, We will go public. There is still a lot of work to do before it go public, including technical and market.
Our pool supply 2 profit methods. PPS at a lowest fee and PPLNS with 0 fee.
We also plan host a server on us to support global services.

[franky1]

what people need to realise is that an ASIC does not talk to the network independently. they talk to a pool.

the pool server is not an ASIC rig and an ASIC rig is not a pool server.

the pool server does not need to be in the same physical location as the ASICs and the ASICs dont need to be in the same physical location as the pool server.

it does not matter what IP address the pool is linked to or what service/hosting the pool is using. it has no relevance to the count of ASICs.

[antminerguruguy]

what people need to realise is that an ASIC does not talk to the network independently. they talk to a pool.

1HqsP8hASurtZ1uv1zUb5Ff2UgD4N6daiK  asian-miner.com stole 1200 canadian from me perhaps you could help me locate the felons or retreive my antiminer z9 mini that hasn't shown up after 45 days.  Apparently they are in hong kong?  So is this theives if so why does bluehost.com continue to host there website?

Looking for a refund to my bitcoin wallet 1232mE3UzJzDsiJpz8xRRUyFqqcjicpUQP  can you help me locate or find who  stole my antminer and or bitcoin?

don't know you guys seem to be winning all the time at viabtc.com maybe you can help me find a block and solve all my problems so I dont have to waste my time reporting this to the rcmp.

[franky1]

what people need to realise is that an ASIC does not talk to the network independently. they talk to a pool.

1HqsP8hASurtZ1uv1zUb5Ff2UgD4N6daiK  asian-miner.com stole 1200 canadian from me perhaps you could help me locate the felons or retreive my antiminer z9 mini that hasn't shown up after 45 days.  Apparently they are in hong kong?  So is this theives if so why does bluehost.com continue to host there website?

Looking for a refund to my bitcoin wallet 1232mE3UzJzDsiJpz8xRRUyFqqcjicpUQP  can you help me locate or find who  stole my antminer and or bitcoin?

don't know you guys seem to be winning all the time at viabtc.com maybe you can help me find a block and solve all my problems so I dont have to waste my time reporting this to the rcmp.

i am not viabtc. but anyway

im guessing you deposited funds into them at 1HqsP...
looks like they pretty quickly moved it into an exchange

as for their details, im afraid to say this to you but there are so many red flags about how they registered and used crappy website build tools that you should have done all these checks before giving them funds.

privacy guards, using a service that gives a free domain that only that expires in a year
your best bet is to contact bluehost

[antminerguruguy]

what people need to realise is that an ASIC does not talk to the network independently. they talk to a pool.

as for their details, im afraid to say this to you but there are so many red flags about how they registered and used crappy website build tools that you should have done all these checks before giving them funds.

privacy guards, using a service that gives a free domain that only that expires in a year
your best bet is to contact bluehost

Your obviously a fucking idiot for telling me I am unitelligent for giving a thief funds.  Perhaps your a chinese piece of shit like these people?

[franky1]

i do understand your frustrations. but insulting because its mentioned that a scam is an obvious scam, is not insulting you its pointing out that the site does very much look like a scam.

again it's not insulting your intelligence, but instead teaching you that maybe you should be more careful and saying you should report the scam

i hope bluehost can do something for you

P.S about your post below to save spamming
you quoting my post and asked for help. thats like you tapping me on the shoulder asking for help. and me saying sorry it looks like you were scammed so go to the police. .. again i understand your frustrations but recognise your own tone in your own responses to someone you tapped on the shoulder randomly.

[antminerguruguy]

i do understand your frustrations. but insulting because its mentioned that a scam is an obvious scam, is not insulting you its pointing out that the site does very much look like a scam.

again it's not insulting your intelligence, but instead teaching you that maybe you should be more careful and saying you should report the scam

fuck off asshat there is nothing you can teach me I dont like your tone who the fuck are you?>