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Re: anywhere to get cheap windows VPS to run wallet and miner?
https://cirrusflex.com accepts bitcoin with bitpay. Website is in spanish, but the cloud plataform is fully in english. They have a free tier with 1 server with 1vcpu and 512MB of RAM for free.
They have windows images, but afaik you have to bring your windows license.
They have windows images, but afaik you have to bring your windows license.
If a botnet is a problem then it show a flaw in the coin. Fix the coin since trying to kill all botnet is a waste of time.
I don't think that statement should even be graced with a response.
Ok, I'll bite. How would a coin stop from being mined by a botnet?
Produce hardware that can mine many magnitudes more efficiently than what the botnet has access to.
For the record based on the chart I seriously doubt it is a botnet in the general sense (general purpose trojan and rookit). The day to day changes in hashing power are too consistent. A botnet will consist of tens of thousands of nodes and the % that is online is constantly changing. Some nodes are killed permently and the botnet is constantly recruiting new zombie nodes. The graph looks nothing like one would expect for a botnet.
Now maybe someone misuing corporate resources? Maybe.
Ok, let's summarize:
- It's not a classic botnet
- it's not a gpu farm
- it looks like something running in laptops/desktops and not servers.
- it has the classic pattern of applications in corporate IT
- it works on Saturdays!
I bet for abuse of (a lot of) corporate resources... If so, it cannot be a single person... And this is really, really difficult.
We need the help of a pool operator for sure.
Fascinating.
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Saturday too... Hence, not a corporate botnet...
Seems like something really weird going on here.
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline. From Monday to Friday.
A botnet?
Hmm, but it makes no sense to hash more when computer is used more (asuming that increased traffic causes more CPU use). Graph should
be inverse of pattern you mentioned, e.g. flip the image vertically. Or is it that miner tracks CPU usage in such a way to not cause CPU and
traffic increase at usualy idle times, suspicious behaviour easily detectable by sysadmins?
Yes, assuming a desktop/laptop 24 hours on. But to save power most companies don't allow their workers to leave the computers on. That's why I said it looks like IT corporate traffic.
Intriguing.
Seems like something really weird going on here.
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
Either a very accurately controlled farm based upon some sort of off-peak electricity price plan, or something else...
I have seen this pattern before in corporate IT traffic: the rise in the morning, the gap at noon for lunch, rise again in the afternoon.... and decline. From Monday to Friday.
A botnet?
Re: Responses by German ministry of finance concerning Bitcoin and VAT (fulltext)
It looks very much like this document from @liberto : you have to pay VAT when you exchange your fiat for bitcoins (and the other way around), but never when you acquire goods or services because you have already paid it.
In Spanish:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=242761.5
In Spanish:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=242761.5
So much lie on this webpage. I don't know where to start.
http://www.butterflylabs.com/management/ is even more funny.
No CEO???
Please don't answer me 'in two weeks'... ;-)
Well half a month then 
Seriously, if someone can see the future there is much more than 'accurate estimation' one can do.
I am sure, if you can accurately predict the date at which the chips will arrive and the broads will be printed and populated with all the required components (received in time or when they are), Punin will be able to give accurate estimation, but for the future there are just rough expectations ... there are no reasons for delays right now, but this doesn't mean that he lied if there are some latter.
Producing 5 or 10 boards is not like producing 1-10k especially if you don't know is it 1k or 10k
The difference between a company A and a company B in mining hardware will not be just the GH they can deliver... but when they can deliver and how accurate are these estimations.