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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Surely this isn't a 51% attack on bitcoins, right?
by
phillipsjk
on 13/10/2011, 02:50:47 UTC
Question, is it better to point small (~2 Ghash) guns at a operating pool during times like this, or is it better to go solo?

If the case of a widespread DDOS attack, mining solo is better so that you can relay transactions, taking load off of the pools. I am currently reading the forum instead of geting some CPU miners up. If the attack continues, I may have two (relatively power hungry) CPU miners at two separate IP addresses.

I have been planning on setting up a netbook CPU miner drawing 12Watts (for the near term), but have not set that up yet. The other CPU miners I have available probably draw 100W each. I am also concerned about bandwidth use and have not set up Bandwidth monitoring on my end yet.