DDoS'er admits to being paid to attack classic nodes...

[YarkoL]

Massive relative to BU's support maybe  

With regards to the entire ecosystem its support is marginal at best.

You guys ought to run one too, to check out Xtreme Thinblocks.

Just set your excessive block size to 1.0MB  to
keep clear conscience and avoid being DDOSsed  

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[Kakmakr]

The guy obviously knows what he is talking about, and we should consider his service as being legit. He even mentioned his payment structure " Such attacks are in tens of thousands range. 30-100$/day for simple sites on vps or shared hosting without antiddos, 100-500$/day for more advanced targets with antiddos clouds, it depends on how hard is to ddos it. Tens of thousands/month for advanced attacks, price depends on target, it consists from uplink bandwith cost (5-8k$ 10gig/month, this is what your ISP pays for internet), and my profit which includes cost of developing custom software (bitcoin crawler, game ddos with game packets, etc...) "

There are not a lot of individuals, who would be willing or are able to pay that much money for a DDoS attack. It is actual sad to see people with loads of talent, doing this kind of harm, when they could be doing so much good.

[exstasie]

There are not a lot of individuals, who would be willing or are able to pay that much money for a DDoS attack. It is actual sad to see people with loads of talent, doing this kind of harm, when they could be doing so much good.

Mehhh, markets gonna market.

[sturle]

so, no ... classic don't help Bitcoin network AT ALL.

What makes matters worse, apparently most of those nodes are pruned nodes (if they're using the service that is being promoted). Basically, it is just someone/a group of people who wants to show fake support for Classic.

fake is relative, there are real poeple funding these nodes...

Is it, or is it Coinbase?

its not as tho there isn't support for classic
there is MASSIVE support for classic. ~100.8 PH/s of support
its funny how no one acknowledges that.

Fortunately miners have no vote in a hard fork.  I note the fact that the support for "Classic" is so weak they have to fake it by attacking the entire bitcoin P2P infrastructure.  Those Amazon nodes makes a DoS attack on the entire P2P network due to the way sybil resistance in Bitcoin works.  The nodes will not connect to each other, because they are on the same netblock, but every one of them will make 8 connections to other nodes which people run at home on their ADSL lines and cable.  Taking up much of their bandwith, which they wanted to provide as a service to real nodes and SPV clients all over the world.  Instead their bandwith, which they pay for, is wasted on those Coinbase-nodes.

And I hope people stay away from mining pools which sabotage the field intended to be used by BIP9 to deploy soft forks.

[exstasie]

Fortunately miners have no vote in a hard fork. 

Ding ding ding, we have a winner! I'm happy to fork attacking miners off my network.

[mikewirth]

Fortunately miners have no vote in a hard fork. 

Ding ding ding, we have a winner! I'm happy to fork attacking miners off my network.

How many prongs can a fork have?