Large bitcoin mining farm mining 4 blocks a day having made 1600BTC

[josiasrdz]

I think bfl is "testing" the mini rigs

[alibert]

The BTC came from various locations in US and HongKong. One of the IPs looks like a hijacked server (maybe used as proxy): http://yojimbo.wktel.com/ One other looks like a VPN-Provider (http://boozepoint.com). Someone is trying to hide his ass here.

[erk]

I think bfl is "testing" the mini rigs

If you bothered to look at the photos and tour review that Lab Rat did of the BFL factory last week, you would have learnt that the Mini rig  is still in prototype, they haven't built the things yet. You can see photos of the stage they are up to.

[mvidetto]

The BTC came from various locations in US and HongKong. One of the IPs looks like a hijacked server (maybe used as proxy): http://yojimbo.wktel.com/ One other looks like a VPN-Provider (http://boozepoint.com). Someone is trying to hide his ass here.

IMO bad for bitcoin unless we can reveal the user as non-threatening for the network.

[Dougie]

IMO bad for bitcoin unless we can reveal the user as non-threatening for the network.

I don't think it makes much difference. They're still processing transactions. It's costing them a lot to mine that quickly. And I think they were using TOR to relay the blocks. They seem to have stopped mining to this address anyway.

[alibert]

These were no tor exit nodes. I check that. The fact that they stopped is another strange point. Who hides here?

[erk]

Today it's only one IP: 98.246.202.92, with 4 mined blocks going to the same address 1BxD2VLE95n7ZeVJSy3uoiJ5WdR72jWj5f and that address is holding 2,045.00200351 BTC!
Oregon?

And then 2 from the same address in LA. Interesting. I wonder if they are purposefully blocking blockchain.info from connecting to them so that their location is obscured.

Did you send them 0.0101 BTC today?

[Amph]

they can at least donate something

[SgtSpike]

It was confirmed that Avalon was pre-mining with customer units... could this be them?

[alibert]

Could be, since they said all batch 2 units will be sent out until the end of the week (many ppl received their units in the past days) and this address stopped mining...

[FUKT]

The BTC came from various locations in US and HongKong. One of the IPs looks like a hijacked server (maybe used as proxy): http://yojimbo.wktel.com/ One other looks like a VPN-Provider (http://boozepoint.com). Someone is trying to hide his ass here.

Which implies maybe two things, not wanting to get caught or perhaps not wanting to show their cards.

Correct me if I'm wrong but someone could be hiring supercomputer time, maybe a tech is diverting power somewhere?

[NewLiberty]

The BTC came from various locations in US and HongKong. One of the IPs looks like a hijacked server (maybe used as proxy): http://yojimbo.wktel.com/ One other looks like a VPN-Provider (http://boozepoint.com). Someone is trying to hide his ass here.

IMO bad for bitcoin unless we can reveal the user as non-threatening for the network.

Since it is non-threatening / non-hostile to bitcoin and obvious that it wishes to be anonymous, let it be.

[cdog]

Im also guessing BFL. This was right around the time they finished their Single prototype.

I mean, it makes a lot of sense given all we know at this time (Aug 1st). They would definitely go to a lot of trouble to hide their efforts.

[Ytterbium]

Teenagers can't afford Avalons, and it's clearly a pool not a single location, so you don't know how many mining rigs of what size are involved, so everything is pure speculation.

They could if they started out GPU mining, or got in super early.

[okiefromokc]

Well, I'm not a major player here yet in the community forum, but the company that I have contracted with has 4000GH/s online. Whether these are ASIC or not I am not sure. Does 4000GH/s = 4TH/s? If so, this company has placed an order for an additional 6.3TH/s to be delivered starting in September of this year.  The 4TH/s are already under contract, so this may not be where the 3 to 4 blocks are coming from though.

[CrashX]

I know who it is     Good work detectives. 

I guessing that it could be the Winklevoss twins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Winklevoss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Winklevoss

 

[Polyatomic]

Im thinking a fraternity of hackers or some sort of government regime , recently got themselves more hashing power than p2pool.

[scambutterflylabs]

Re: Large bitcoin mining farm  made 3989BTC and removed 3000 BTC

http://blockchain.info/fb/1bxd2v

[af_newbie]

Speculative nonsense, how much do you think someone with a few Avalon boxes and a bit of luck could do?

I agree it is totally speculative to claim it is BFL, but it is more than a few Avalon boxes. Based on the rate they are hashing, if they are using Avalon boxes it would be between 50 and 100 of them.

Looking at the dates of their "savings account" http://blockchain.info/address/16ygEoTjg7P5GJwLKTQd1UgqAGuF8bKVRc  it does look like BFL
pre-mining mini rigs.  Nothing new here.  Avalon has been doing this since January.

Or someone broke sha256, mined 34 million and retired.

[Dougie]

Speculative nonsense, how much do you think someone with a few Avalon boxes and a bit of luck could do?

I agree it is totally speculative to claim it is BFL, but it is more than a few Avalon boxes. Based on the rate they are hashing, if they are using Avalon boxes it would be between 50 and 100 of them.

Looking at the dates of their "savings account" http://blockchain.info/address/16ygEoTjg7P5GJwLKTQd1UgqAGuF8bKVRc  it does look like BFL
pre-mining mini rigs.  Nothing new here.  Avalon has been doing this since January.

Or someone broke sha256, mined 34 million and retired.

And then sends it to 158mVoizfU3xPxGGchGtnsKSixGs9XTo6v which has received 98000 BTC since March this year.

Pre-mining should be carried out on the test net.