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May 02, 2013, 07:44:53 AM
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For anyone who doesnt know ESEA is a competitive gaming league (with a huge number of members) that requires you to pay to get access to their client software. It appears they added in a bitcoin miner ontop of that required fee. Their users are not happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmobeX3GvPU

I wonder what sort of hash rates they were looking at. Hash rate jumped up a bit around 04/23, maybe that was them? The same amount of hashing power seemed to disappear yesterday. I'm guessing around 10Th/s when you average nvidia and ati cards together for >10000 idle users.

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http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/05/01/esea-accidentally-release-malware-into-public-client-causing-users-to-farm-bitcoins/

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For anyone who doesnt know ESEA is a competitive gaming league (with a huge number of members) that requires you to pay to get access to their client software. It appears they added in a bitcoin miner ontop of that required fee. Their users are not happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmobeX3GvPU

I wonder what sort of hash rates they were looking at. Hash rate jumped up a bit around 04/23, maybe that was them? The same amount of hashing power seemed to disappear yesterday. I'm guessing around 10Th/s when you average nvidia and ati cards together for >10000 idle users.

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http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=12692
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/05/01/esea-accidentally-release-malware-into-public-client-causing-users-to-farm-bitcoins/

where it's possible to see the total hash rate of the net?
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For anyone who doesnt know ESEA is a competitive gaming league (with a huge number of members) that requires you to pay to get access to their client software. It appears they added in a bitcoin miner ontop of that required fee. Their users are not happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmobeX3GvPU

I wonder what sort of hash rates they were looking at. Hash rate jumped up a bit around 04/23, maybe that was them? The same amount of hashing power seemed to disappear yesterday. I'm guessing around 10Th/s when you average nvidia and ati cards together for >10000 idle users.

Edit:

Additional Links

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=12692
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/05/01/esea-accidentally-release-malware-into-public-client-causing-users-to-farm-bitcoins/

where it's possible to see the total hash rate of the net?


Here....https://blockchain.info/stats
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