what a bunch of shit howmanyconfs.com

woh, total miners 35156

Network 1871 Mh/s o_O

1.9 MH

:(

thats too much

its gonna go down, "the dude" removed 0.5GH recently

I've analyzed nonce distribution from the 3 big miners on nanopool. There are 1438 blocks found by them so far, all winning nonces are in the range 4...438294

average value is 151172

so given the 120s block time, average worker hashrate is 1260 h/s

and they definitely don't use xmrig, judging by more fine nuances of the distribution

more likely xmr-stak

and most likely they're the same entity

yes, it's xmr-stak that they use

I'm 99% sure now it's cloud VMs, judging by their hashrate and nonce pattern (nothing extraordinary there)

very nice job sech1

he started using proxy recently

and it's not xmrig-proxy, or we would see non-zero high bits of the nonce there

the data: paste.debian.net/1155447

csv format (height;nonce)

<idunno> it might be vms, but nothing points to it should be hacked vms

Either it's hacked VMs or free credits or someone is a big spender

<idunno> thelocal.no/20200602/norway-murder-suspect-offered-to-pay-ransom

<idunno> multi billionare norweigan wants to pay ransom for his wife, and his friend is a crypto expert, and he states it would hurt to buy that much on the market in a short time

<idunno> so, it could be a motive for the nethash

$9M randsom is 120 days of the whole Monero network emission, kind of stupid and slow way to get that much Monero

on the other hand, there's only $4.5M now in asks across all exchanges, so he can't just buy it anyway

<idunno> he doesnt have to mine all the 9m

<idunno> but i have not seen any activity on the markets recently though

<idunno> i did ask some journalists to try and contact him about this, he has no reason to hide it, as he has said in public he will pay - after he was charged himself for the murder

<idunno> Besides, we may not have seen a peak on the network hash just yet. It could also look like a test phase the last few weeks

<idunno> If this is him, he could even prove that he got the monero. Or at least a part of it

no matter how much hash he gets, it'll take 120 days

or maybe he'll mine some then pump the price 10x, hmm...

<idunno> He has more.

<idunno> she has been missing since 2018

<idunno> It is still just a shot of a theory. But imo it isn’t a long shot