[2015-03-12] CD: Bitcoin Mining Pools Targeted in Wave of DDOS Attacks

[LiteCoinGuy]

Bitcoin Mining Pools Targeted in Wave of DDOS Attacks

AntPool, BW.com, NiceHash, CKPool and GHash are among a number of bitcoin mining pools and operations that have been hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks in recent days.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-pools-ddos-attacks/



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[Armis]

Bitcoin Mining Pools Targeted in Wave of DDOS Attacks

AntPool, BW.com, NiceHash, CKPool and GHash are among a number of bitcoin mining pools and operations that have been hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks in recent days.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-pools-ddos-attacks/



that will make BTC even stronger.

I fear DDOS attacks greatly, what is the best defense against them?

[cr1776]

Bitcoin Mining Pools Targeted in Wave of DDOS Attacks

AntPool, BW.com, NiceHash, CKPool and GHash are among a number of bitcoin mining pools and operations that have been hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks in recent days.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-pools-ddos-attacks/



that will make BTC even stronger.

I fear DDOS attacks greatly, what is the best defense against them?

P2pool is one option since it is a distributed pool.

[LiteCoinGuy]

Bitmain Fights Back Against DDOS Group

http://coinfire.io/2015/03/12/bitmain-fights-back-against-ddos-group/

[Balls]

What is their goal of ddos-ing? Just trying to blackmail them into paying them money then they'll stop? If so, it would be silly paying the 'ransom' as doing so just opens you up to further attacks. I guess the pools will just have to think of ways to combat this.

[TraderTimm]

People should be solo-mining, or using P2P pool, but naturally since everyone is a greedy piece of shit, they'll just keep flocking to centralizing pools.

DDoS is just a natural extension attacking this behavior. Maybe it will cause an exodous to more decentralized options, one can only hope.