Quote from: RapeFace on April 27, 2013, 03:11:43 PM

Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on April 27, 2013, 03:06:32 PM

Quote from: kwilliams on April 27, 2013, 02:55:16 PM

Has anyone tried to correlate recent variations in network difficulty with DDOS attacks on mining pools? I have the feeling that a large botnet is being used to mine bitcoin and do the attacks at the same time. When it's on mining mode difficulty climbs. When it's attacking (and therefore not mining) the rate drops.

You don't need a lot of CPU/GPU power to DDoS someone.

you just made me facepalm so hard i hit china.

he is talkign about botnets (a network of computers all infected with a virus controlled by one person)
the owner of the botnet is then using his bots to mine bitcoins for him. this botnet can also be used for DDoS'ing (distributed denial of service)
however botnets cant handle that many tasks at once, so if a botnet owner wanted to DDoS somene they would have to stop mining and vice versa

I disagree. DDoSing requires less than 1% of CPU. If ur ddos-related soft "eats" a lot of CPU power then it's written by a kid.