Quote from: yeppers on January 25, 2014, 05:42:41 AM

Quote from: maxman190 on January 25, 2014, 05:00:12 AM

Quote from: USD-e on January 25, 2014, 04:58:05 AM

FYI

The SteadyMining USDe Pool sent us almost 37,000 USDe that they've been able to snatch away from the BOTNet that attacked them, and asked us for the fund to be distributed to our community! This is unprecedented and very honorable!!!

Tomorrow, we will announce a couple of promotions and giveaways, but they will act as a service to the whole bitcointalk.org community, with information that has been gathered thus far, and a way for other pool operators to report new findings. We'll track these scumbags down together. Botnets bringing down any pool are a threat against not only that pool, but it also erodes trust in the coin that the pool supports!

The donated giveaway fund of 37,000 USDe will be spent in its ENTIRETY and given back to our loyal users! We therefore call tomorrow (aside from a huge TWITTER campaign)... the

USDe AGAINST BOTNETS DAY!!!

DON'T MISS IT

I don't think the botnets attacked them. I think the hackers used botnets to control 118 computers to hash for them. Too much traffic killed their site.

SteadyMining use to be the big pool 12 hours ago. Now Poolinero comes out of no where and has triple the hash rate that SteadyMining had. Seems a bit fishy. Sounds like the same issue you guys are talking about with the bots.

2 possibilities. Either poolerino ddosed steadymining or the botnet went over to poolerino.