Nice the dude who took over 70% of the hashrate is gone! I have an idea in the future on a cpu coin limiting the max hashrate of the network. Does a network even really need over say 200khash to work? We could make a coin that stops giving rewards if the hashrate gets over 200khash. Small independent miners who are spending pennies a day mining in electricity would be able to keep mining wheras big assholes and pools wouldn't be able to survive mining it...power to the little people.
I think that was a botnet as it was showing around 2000 miners and now it's just 200 so definitely it was botnet
Yup you are to the point. It really feels bad when you have little hash and people come with contract like nicehash and make sure to create hell for small miners.
It wasn't a botnet and it wasn't 2000 miners, it was 1000 ( they were mine). The pool just disconnects them so often that it gets the count wrong. I also crashed the pool frequently with only 1000 machines, which is pretty bad. If the author wants to make his source public, I'll host an additional pool myself to take load away (I host other pools)
Wow, so you personally own over 1000 computers? OOr do you mean you work for a company which has 1000 computers?
is there really any point in anyone making a cpu only coin if this is the case.
How can "normal" miner possibly compete?
Are they all PC's or phone, or raspberry pi's? I'm intrigued.
J