Quote from: kbm on August 02, 2014, 12:17:39 PM

Quote from: r0ach on August 02, 2014, 12:09:10 PM

I definitely would not say that. The botnet problem is understated if anything.

I was there for Monero launch on the first or second day and got 0 coins mining with two CPUs. There's just too much CPU power out there for really any CPU coin to be considered "fair" in the current environment. Same thing happened with that Cryptonite coin. Some guy posting about how he mined with 30 CPUs on the second day and got 0 coins. I mean come on, just how many CPUs is one supposed to own to be able to mine a CPU coin? These things are just charity events for botnets at the moment.

That's weird that our experiences are so different. I was using one i7 processor and got (>>10, <50) blocks with it the first week. Second week I threw about 4 more computers on it, with miserable processors (celerons/pentiums), leaving me with >50, <120 blocks mined after week 2 IIRC. After that, there wasn't much notable solo mining.

Same here - when I managed to get the blockchain downloaded and solo mining to work April 27th or so (10 days after launch) I told othe I mined 17 XMR in 9 hours on a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz. At the time the daemon could do around 10h/s - 11h/s on that Xeon and about 33h/s on an Amazon c3.8xlarge slice, and net hash was around 7000h/s. To put that in real numbers, you'd have needed like 212 of those c3.8xlarge slices to control the entire network. If memory serves, you can fire 50 of them up with the standard EC2 account restrictions (5 in each zone). So I see no evidence of early botnet mining, and this was 10 days after launch.