Not only that but they also use quite a few code obfuscation techniques common to malicious software, so a lot of DNN based heuristic detection systems flag them since very little legitimate software is so heavily obfuscated.

That said I think explaining this to this particular individual, looking at his later posts, may be a lost cause. One of the signs that mining has peaked I suppose; even complete idiots barely capable of tying their shoelaces are trying to get in on it.

Interestingly I believe that you can, at least in some instances. Although I don't believe it's realistic in this situation (or that PhoenixMiner would be inclined to try).

Courts can grant permission for a claimant to use a pseudonym under so-called anonymity orders, usually in domestic abuse cases and the like, or in the case of PhoenixMiner you could set up a shell company to mask the true ownership and have solicitors file a claim on behalf of the shell company.

I used to work as an asset manager for a company that purchased a lot of mortgages, they were regularly bundled up into SPVs with the servicers listed as directors and another offshore shell company as the beneficial interest (yay tax avoidance). Possession claims were filed by solicitors on behalf of the SPV, with documentation such as home at risk notices signed by approved individuals from the third-party mortgage servicer.

The true ownership was never disclosed. To my knowledge only one person ever tried to obtain it, they had a dubious theory that our servicers didn't have the right to bring a claim against them, and it was rejected by a district court judge.

That would be ridiculously complicated and expensive however, especially given the complexities and chances of success in filing such a claim in Slovenia (or wherever NiceHash are based) over a relatively trivial matter such as this. I just think it's fascinating that it's possible at all, and a little bit of a disturbing argument against shell companies if I was honest.

I think this screenshot says more than any amount of words could in regard to their response to this.

Any reasonable company would have:

• Posted a short incident response message and temporarily removed the PhoenixMiner plugin;
• Restored said plugin once their concerns were addressed; and
• Shutdown all of djeZo's posts, or at the very least made it abundantly clear that he was/is not acting on their behalf.

I have met interns straight out of high school that could have handled a potential incident response better than NiceHash, what sort of processes do they have (or not have) in place that this seems like an appropriate course of action for them? No wonder they got hacked.

I hate to think what their security policies and processes are like if this is how disciplined they are in something as simple as making a press release.

The github linked in the first post has 5.5c and 5.4c if you click on releases. It's just showing the latter as the latest.

I presume they posted 5.5c first and then decided to upload 5.4c, or were asked to, likely so people have a source for it if they have any issues with 5.5c and need to fall back to an older version.

Yes that was a bit of a rollercoaster of nonsense from them, especially for what should simply have been a short post saying "out of an abundance of caution we are temporarily removing the PhoenixMiner plugin" yet turned into several extremely long and unprofessional Reddit posts with associated comments over here.

Their admins and the owner to their credit were quite professional, even if they do appear to have misattributed that .org website (and the corresponding files with mismatching hash) to PhoenixMiner. That they let that dev rabidly rant about "paid shill attacks" or post multi-page, semi-coherent ramblings on their behalf doesn't do them any credit mind you.

They overreacted a little initially, and seemed confused in their messaging, but that dev took it to a whole new level of batshit crazy.

My account is from 2017, and I've asked the same questions (also with no response) on Reddit with my account from 2015 with 9k karma. Funnily enough most people don't actually post on here all that often, personally I only usually visit to check for new builds.

How about instead of raving about "hired shills" you calm down and answer the damn question that everybody is asking you?

I will reiterate them for ease of reference:

The last update to your github seems to link directly to a Mega link, this clearly isn't the build currently being distributed since you have removed PhoenixMiner in the latest update.

So are you updating your miner and then updating github? In which case what prevents you from having updated that hardcoded URL to something else in the interim?

Your original posts reference a mismatched hash:


What were these "new download locations," as the dev hasn't posted any? What was the hash, and how did the hash mismatch if you were purportedly linking to 5.5c which we have all downloaded and can see matches the hash posted by PhoenixMiner?

This sounds remarkably like you guys messed up, panicked, made a report to Mega (probably why the Github got taken down) and made a bunch of increasingly rabid posts about it.

This is why companies have social media policies, if you are posting about something directly related to your employers business as a known employee then it is as good as on their behalf. Most legitimate companies would fire employees for spouting conspiracy theory nonsense in their name or for associating them with the kind of FUD you are spreading.

That NiceHash apparently grant you free reign for this is implicit consent, and it reflects very poorly on them.


That is his github, he wrote XMR-Stak with psychocrypt, and also links his social media accounts. Unfortunately he hasn't posted a photo on Insta of him holding his passport with "I am PhoenixMiner" sharpied on his forehead mind you.

I must say your posts, both here and on Reddit, are extremely unprofessional. Not to mention questionable in their content and intent. It might be an idea for NiceHash to hire an actual PR firm if they lack anybody competent in communicating with the general public rather than let people like you speak on their behalf.

Ignoring the nonsensical suggestion that Škorjanc is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you are spreading FUD to try and push users to a competing miner.

PhoenixMiner is not anonymous, he hasn't posted and his Mega got taken offline. This was likely due to a licensing complaint, which is the only part of your Reddit post that isn't rabid nonsense, but we do not know and there is zero reason to suspect malfeasance.

That PhoenixMiner is some backdoored monstrosity and Mega, of all companies, not only somehow got wind of it but kept this to themselves is about as ridiculous a proposition as I have heard in some time.

Yeah, I've made some good money on Dash but I'm out. I can't see this price sticking without widespread adoption, it's fuelled entirely by speculation and liable to crash again if people starting buying back into BTC.

It does bode well for the future though, that people jumped to Dash as the primary alternative.

Unless the news is crap, in which case sell the rumour.

I don't necessarily disagree with you about DCR increasing in value, and don't take it personally, I'm just offering some advice.

If you invest money by examining past trends of a different currency you're going to be in for a world of hurt.

What is DCR being used for currently?

You also aren't looking at market characteristics, and whether or not technical analysis works is highly questionable. It's considered a pseudoscience for a reason, and even then an actual technical analysis is more in depth than comparing chart patterns.

What you have done is compare two parts of completely different graphs, stated they look similar and therefore will probably follow the same pattern. That simply is not true.

I like DCR, it looks like a cool currency and I'm sure it will do well long term, but it's price is going to be impacted by news releases and (eventually) it's adoption rate. It isn't just going to magically follow the curve of another currency, that was released under different circumstances.

Most of the spikes correspond to specific events, like the marketing last month before the news about them talking at some conference (or more often just people trying to pump it for a quick buck).

Any similarities you find with graphs on other coins are coincidental, the price will probably keep spiking, dropping and slowly stabilising higher over time until it finally starts being used as a payment method.

At the moment DCR isn't really being used, the price is controlled by what people are willing to pay to invest in it. There's no point trying to find patterns in something like that.

I don't think it's a scam, but I don't think it will take off either.

I mean the concept is cool, it's basically bittorrent with integrated tracker, payment system and client and it all seems to have basic functionality already.

The client is also ok and looks decent, even if it is a little basic at the moment the web based content explorer looks fairly professional. The issue is with the content.

It's unlikely that it will gain support from any major content producers, which will keep the user base small, and this appears to be a primarily educational project so I believe the devs will fight tooth and nail the inevitable attempts to fill it with porn and pirated content which would otherwise bring users.

The funny thing is I could see a less legitimate system being very popular, with minor modifications someone could probably create a version of this to distribute pretty much anything.

Add a rating system and a better way of exploring content and this would allow amateur pornographers (ok, cam girls) and their ilk to share content without a middle man, or you could add escrow and privacy features to the currency and this could be used for the sale of physical goods.

I imagine if you spent enough time thinking through the administrative aspects you could create a fairly decent decentralised marketplace based on this concept, with support for the sale and distribution of both physical and digital goods and services it would likely be able to rival certain markets that I'm not sure I'm allowed to name on this forum.

Anyway, I only discovered LBRY this morning and that's my take on it. I'm looking forwards to seeing how it turns out when they bring it out of beta, and to seeing what people end up doing with the source code.

*As for the price, the dump is inevitable. People are mining a metric tonne of the stuff and half don't even have the client, so the money isn't actually going anywhere. They are literally pumping out supply of the coin with zero demand for it.

Not quite sure what will happen once LBRY goes live, given that the coins will basically just be sold in an endless cycle of miner>user>producer>user. Since the coins will circulate in this way, with more being pumped in by miners, I assume they will continue to be devalued further? Anyone with a background in economics want to take a guess?

Decred is certainly an interesting coin however excluding governance what advantages does it hold over other alt coins?

From what I can tell whilst the PoS/PoW hybrid system seems to solve some issues with hard forking, and potential vulnerabilities caused by large mining pools, it's more or less on par in terms of other features.

I'm only a layman so I'm probably missing something, but how does a coin like this gain widespread adoption when the main advantages are things end users are unlikely to notice?