ASIC Testing on Scrypt?

[Lauda]

Considering you'll make hundreds, if not thousands, of times more money selling the ASIC than mining with it, not sharing it would be idiotic.

Retail route is not so easy. One have to consider tax laws, customs laws, customer protection laws, certification compliance laws, cryptography regulation laws and whatever else laws invented on half of our globe. Add to that customer service, repair and replacement costs. On the other hand, private mining operation could be done with rented datacenter in country with cheap power (and possible VAT refunds for it ) and an office, may be even virtual one, in some low-tax jurisdiction with lasy but sane lawmakers. Fiat profits from such structure could be recognized as dividends or royalty, carrying no risk of upcoming bitcoin-related regulations.

This!

[superduh]

and they have left the network?! noone noticed?

[CartmanSPC]

and they have left the network?! noone noticed?

He moved to litegaurdian with 1.8 Gh/s.

[barwizi]

pool trolling other pools 

[symzzi]

Seems like something really weird going on here.





Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...

[smolen]

Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...

Quants put their FPGA clusters into mining when exchanges are closed?

[Beaflag VonRathburg]

and they have left the network?! noone noticed?

He moved to liteguardian* with 1.8 Gh/s.

2344951 KH/s as of right now. It also joined Team Russia although that could just be a red herring. Judging by the way it is always bouncing around it seems to me that it is either a giant botnet, a huge pool, or a smaller pool using some sort of exploit. It also seems to be gaming the difficulty causing it to rise and fall by certain ratios. You can watch the difficulty adjustment estimates fall as its hashrate drops low on the pool then, bounce back up as it rises again. Regardless, I'm all for the Predator drone strike YipYip was talking about.

[dudeofthestick]

Seems like something really weird going on here.





Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...

I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline.  From Monday to Friday.

A botnet?

[dKingston]

I give it 80 percent they are using botnet.

[01BTC10]

I give it 80 percent they are using botnet.

Variation is too constant for a botnet in the wild. Maybe a botnet on a corporate network.

[Hippie Tech]

Or.. someone trying desperately to get their scrypt asic settings right.  

Or.. it could be someone having some cooling related issues.

edit again..

Now I'm thinking its the same hoard that was jumping in and out of the IFC network. eg. Within minutes the hashrate would jump from 20 mhash to 2100+.

[cryptrol]

I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline.  From Monday to Friday.

A botnet?

+1, also LOL at tio la vara

[atomicchaos]

What would be the reason to move from pool to pool if not trying to evade something? Would really love to hear more from the pool operators.

[Cablez]

Maybe another rogue sysadmin at the NSA??  Jeez guys, can't you keep your house in order for like 5 minutes?

[CartmanSPC]

UTC

[dudeofthestick]

Seems like something really weird going on here.



Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...

I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline.  From Monday to Friday.

A botnet?

Hmm, but it makes no sense to hash more when computer is used more (asuming that increased traffic causes more CPU use). Graph should
be inverse of pattern you mentioned, e.g. flip the image vertically. Or is it that miner tracks CPU usage in such a way to not cause CPU and
traffic increase at usualy idle times, suspicious behaviour easily detectable by sysadmins?

Yes, assuming a desktop/laptop 24 hours on. But to save power most companies don't allow their workers to leave the computers on. That's why I said it looks like IT corporate traffic.

Intriguing.

[dudeofthestick]

UTC

Saturday too... Hence, not a corporate botnet...

[CoinBuzz]

There are many consumer motherboards currently on the market whose chipset doesn't actually require that all 16 lanes of a PCIe x16 slot be merged to one endpoint.  That means all 16 lanes can be broken out to 16 separate single-lane PCIe devices.  With the correct motherboard, it works just fine to hack up some ribbon cable PCIe risers to split a single x16 slot (preferably one at the edge of the motherboard so you can position GPU's both above and below the motherboard) to 16 GPU's.

Would you please explain a bit more about this trick?

How can we find out if our MOBO has this feature?

[eule]

I guess this guy switched to LTC. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/

[zeta1]

I am guessing Botnet