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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.2.0)
by
cryptoyes
on 01/02/2018, 01:46:02 UTC
Any comments on Bminer contacting 104.31.68.221:443/104.31.69.221:443 regularly?

Quoting myself so perhaps this gets a response from the developer.

It's for runtime and licensing information.

That's much too vague, unconvincing, and very suspicious!

Those look like https ports, so you're sending over encrypted information. I'm happy for you to send your devfee shares over an encrypted connection because I can verify that the IPs you submit to belong to a pool I trust, but in this case you are sending _OTHER_ information to an unknown IP.

You expect us to trust you that you are not sending over anything else.

I don't see the point for this. What runtime and licensing information? You are getting your huge 2% devfee as it is, why this stuff as well?

Will bminer refuse to start/work properly if I block those ports/IPs? If yes, that will be it for me. Much too shady, sorry.