What happened at block 310853. Somebody get lucky in Montreal?

[thatguy42]

Is this the first time, is it legit? 1 transaction 25 BTC reward.

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[alekzander]

Seems to me some guy made a Massive Solo mining operation ... his address is collecting a block per ~8 hrs ... this guy probably has minimum 1.5 pentahash minnig... insane shit

[jonnybravo0311]

You do realize that it's KnC finding those blocks, right?  It's not some rich yahoo in the great white north solo-mining with a few petahash... well, I guess if you consider Sweden the great white north and KnC is certainly a couple rich yahoos... lol.

[giveBTCpls]

I wonder how many machines are needed at once to produce the amount of hashing power to make solo mining useful at near 2015. This is just nuts.

[thatguy42]

You do realize that it's KnC finding those blocks, right?  It's not some rich yahoo in the great white north solo-mining with a few petahash... well, I guess if you consider Sweden the great white north and KnC is certainly a couple rich yahoos... lol.

Actually it came from stratum. Btcguild.com hosted in Montreal.
http://www.iplocationfinder.com/stratum.btcguild.com

The loot went to
https://blockchain.info/address/1H1sq6Msgt9HjRrBuz8ieZdThzWXS6oPVA

When it first came out it showed 102% of network hash.

Name Server: GINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: JOSH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Are also owned by Btcguild.

Is it possible to hijack a large cloud and make it do, sha 256 for a minute?

[os2sam]

Actually it came from stratum. Btcguild.com hosted in Montreal.
http://www.iplocationfinder.com/stratum.btcguild.com

Just because a block tracking site saw it from a certain IP address doesn't mean that was the address that mined it.  Allot of times these sites only see the IP the block was relayed through and not always the block finder.  These sites may be helpful but they are not always correct.

Edit: here is a thread which explains this subject

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123726.0

[eleuthria]

You do realize that it's KnC finding those blocks, right?  It's not some rich yahoo in the great white north solo-mining with a few petahash... well, I guess if you consider Sweden the great white north and KnC is certainly a couple rich yahoos... lol.

Actually it came from stratum. Btcguild.com hosted in Montreal.
http://www.iplocationfinder.com/stratum.btcguild.com

The loot went to
https://blockchain.info/address/1H1sq6Msgt9HjRrBuz8ieZdThzWXS6oPVA

When it first came out it showed 102% of network hash.

Name Server: GINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: JOSH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Are also owned by Btcguild.

Is it possible to hijack a large cloud and make it do, sha 256 for a minute?

It was first seen (on blockchain.info) relayed from stratum.btcguild.com.  That means nothing as it relates to the source, which is why blockchain.info doesn't attribute the block to BTC Guild (because it wasn't one of ours).  The block was found by KNCMiner's private farm.  1H1sq6Msgt9HjRrBuz8ieZdThzWXS6oPVA is KNC Miner's mining farm address.

[jonnybravo0311]

You do realize that it's KnC finding those blocks, right?  It's not some rich yahoo in the great white north solo-mining with a few petahash... well, I guess if you consider Sweden the great white north and KnC is certainly a couple rich yahoos... lol.

Actually it came from stratum. Btcguild.com hosted in Montreal.
http://www.iplocationfinder.com/stratum.btcguild.com

The loot went to
https://blockchain.info/address/1H1sq6Msgt9HjRrBuz8ieZdThzWXS6oPVA

When it first came out it showed 102% of network hash.

Name Server: GINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: JOSH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Are also owned by Btcguild.

Is it possible to hijack a large cloud and make it do, sha 256 for a minute?

No, actually it came from KnC.  It just happened to be relayed to blockchain.info by BTCGuild, as eleuthria explains quite well in his post.

Let me give you an example of one I know.  Bock 297777 was found on April 26th.  I know, because I'm the one who found it.  I was mining in p2pool, and it was one of my S1s that found the block.  If you look at who relayed it, you would think someone in Prague found it.  I was running on my local p2pool node, in my home... and my home is not in the Czech Republic

[DjPxH]

I wonder how many machines are needed at once to produce the amount of hashing power to make solo mining useful at near 2015. This is just nuts.

Well, the machines are getting better every day. Our current total network hashrate would've blown everyone's minds in 2012. All those 1 TH/s miners that are quite affordable, even for consumers, would've been outright doomsday devices back then.