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<p>[QUOTE="Prime Mover, post: 2662111, member: 38783"]I understand very well the concept of a Trojan, thank you very much. I've been in IT for over 20 years, I started my career by launching a dialup ISP / webhosting provider back in the mid-90's, and am currently working in IT in the Healthcare space, whose daily job is to research current trends and threats, and protect my users against them. I've written my share of code.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, by your statement, you do not seem to understand how an ASIC-based miner is built and controlled under the hood, nor how the mining ecosystem functions as a whole, otherwise you would not be making these suggestions. Miners are keenly aware of what their rigs are doing all day, every day, and would immediately notice any change in the environment.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, just to back up my baseless claims with actual, real numbers (and now we're getting REALLY off-tangent, I apologize and will get back on track after this):</p><p><br /></p><p>The average mining hashrate of a current server with 4 Intel Xeon CPUs is 60 Megahashes per second (18Mh/s).</p><p><br /></p><p>The average mining hashrate of the current best shipping ASIC-based miner is 14 Terahashes per second (14Th/s).</p><p><br /></p><p>The largest mining pool, at just below 17% of the overall hashrate is currently around 340 Petahashed per second (340Ph/s).</p><p><br /></p><p>To mount a successful 51% attack you'd need to maintain at least ~2.3Exahashes/s</p><p><br /></p><p>So to put that in simple math:</p><p>You would need 233,334 servers to top the hashrate of one ASIC miner.</p><p>You would need 5,666,666,666,667 servers to top the hashrate of the largest current mining pool.</p><p>You would need 38,333,333,333,333 servers to surpass the 51% attack mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not gonna happen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Prime Mover, post: 2662111, member: 38783"]I understand very well the concept of a Trojan, thank you very much. I've been in IT for over 20 years, I started my career by launching a dialup ISP / webhosting provider back in the mid-90's, and am currently working in IT in the Healthcare space, whose daily job is to research current trends and threats, and protect my users against them. I've written my share of code. Also, by your statement, you do not seem to understand how an ASIC-based miner is built and controlled under the hood, nor how the mining ecosystem functions as a whole, otherwise you would not be making these suggestions. Miners are keenly aware of what their rigs are doing all day, every day, and would immediately notice any change in the environment. But, just to back up my baseless claims with actual, real numbers (and now we're getting REALLY off-tangent, I apologize and will get back on track after this): The average mining hashrate of a current server with 4 Intel Xeon CPUs is 60 Megahashes per second (18Mh/s). The average mining hashrate of the current best shipping ASIC-based miner is 14 Terahashes per second (14Th/s). The largest mining pool, at just below 17% of the overall hashrate is currently around 340 Petahashed per second (340Ph/s). To mount a successful 51% attack you'd need to maintain at least ~2.3Exahashes/s So to put that in simple math: You would need 233,334 servers to top the hashrate of one ASIC miner. You would need 5,666,666,666,667 servers to top the hashrate of the largest current mining pool. You would need 38,333,333,333,333 servers to surpass the 51% attack mark. Not gonna happen.[/QUOTE]
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