Quote from: s2 on June 13, 2014, 10:46:12 AM

Just curious, how can you be confident this was a hack? I mean what is the probability that they've just had bad luck and never got a winning answer but have genuinely been playing fairly?

I've seen the evidence and am convinced (multiple different ways, even) that the miner in question was in fact block withholding.
Whether it was intentional or accidental, I consider irrelevant.
wizkid057 plans to release more information at some point publicly, I'm not sure when.

Quote from: Brucexie on June 13, 2014, 11:19:42 AM

For your " demanding 1164%-APY interest", Let me paste my last post here:
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2. Pay under a installment plan: pay 10% per week, or pay 5% a week, with a extra 5% interest.

I calculate 5%/week as 1264% APY... 1.05⁵² = 12.642808
Also, any interest beyond inflation is evil.

Quote from: Brucexie on June 13, 2014, 04:30:06 PM

If I really wants to make eligius "bad", The right way is to use 10 btc to hire a buck of hacker in china to DDOS that website, instead of risking my 200+ BTC on pretending to be a normal miner.

Eligius is pretty much under constant DDoS these days, so you'd just be wasting your 10 BTC.

Quote from: grnbrg on June 13, 2014, 04:32:13 PM

And he would had had to have planned this in advance -- it would be trivial to find blocks that paid out to Eligius miners that are not in that list. So either Eligius is attacking you, or you are attacking Eligius. (And if WK thought that withholding blocks was a good strategy, why would he focus on one user?)

Edit: Dammit. I suppose EvilEligius could just assign blocks to another user -- On reflection, there is nothing really to tie the block the finder.

Actually, this is one of the items planned to be improved for GBT2...
But even now, it's possible to store enough share data to prove that the block was found by the same person finding - though I doubt wizkid057 stores that much data Sad

Quote from: Brucexie on June 13, 2014, 05:16:29 PM

Oh, you give me an idea.
To hire a PR professional to dress up myself as a selfless man, after being trusted, then start to steel 200+ btc from miner.
200+ btc is about 120K USD, which is enough to hire such part-time expert in mid euro, india, or china.
So it is really profitable.
If you are educated to think independently, my word is for your consider.

If wizkid057 wanted to do this, why wouldn't he take more BTC? 200 BTC isn't that much to be worth the risks of theft...