02:30:22 <gingeropolous> what a bunch of shit https://howmanyconfs.com/
02:55:52 <gingeropolous> woh, total miners 35156
05:42:51 <niocbrrrrrr> Network 1871 Mh/s o_O
07:27:12 <p3rL> 1.9 MH
07:27:14 <p3rL> :(
07:27:16 <p3rL> thats too much
07:28:01 <gethh> its gonna go down, "the dude" removed 0.5GH recently
09:44:23 <sech1> 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
09:44:38 <sech1> average value is 151172
09:44:57 <sech1> so given the 120s block time, average worker hashrate is 1260 h/s
09:45:22 <sech1> and they definitely don't use xmrig, judging by more fine nuances of the distribution
09:45:31 <sech1> more likely xmr-stak
09:46:39 <sech1> and most likely they're the same entity
09:47:57 <sech1> yes, it's xmr-stak that they use
09:52:56 <sech1> I'm 99% sure now it's cloud VMs, judging by their hashrate and nonce pattern (nothing extraordinary there)
09:54:14 <gethh> very nice job sech1
09:54:44 <gethh> he started using proxy recently
09:55:20 <sech1> and it's not xmrig-proxy, or we would see non-zero high bits of the nonce there
09:56:20 <sech1> the data: https://paste.debian.net/1155447/
09:56:31 <sech1> csv format (height;nonce)
10:42:54 <hv-bridge> <idunno> it might be vms, but nothing points to it should be hacked vms
10:50:49 <sech1> Either it's hacked VMs or free credits or someone is a big spender
10:52:30 <hv-bridge> <idunno> https://www.thelocal.no/20200602/norway-murder-suspect-offered-to-pay-ransom
10:56:03 <hv-bridge> <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
10:56:37 <hv-bridge> <idunno> so, it could be a motive for the nethash
10:59:58 <sech1> $9M randsom is 120 days of the whole Monero network emission, kind of stupid and slow way to get that much Monero
11:01:04 <sech1> on the other hand, there's only $4.5M now in asks across all exchanges, so he can't just buy it anyway
11:02:54 <hv-bridge> <idunno> he doesnt have to mine all the 9m
11:03:09 <hv-bridge> <idunno> but i have not seen any activity on the markets recently though
11:03:50 <hv-bridge> <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
11:07:13 <hv-bridge> <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
11:08:29 <hv-bridge> <idunno> If this is him, he could even prove that he got the monero. Or at least a part of it
11:16:00 <sech1> no matter how much hash he gets, it'll take 120 days
11:16:29 <sech1> or maybe he'll mine some then pump the price 10x, hmm...
11:29:08 <hv-bridge> <idunno> He has more.
11:29:14 <hv-bridge> <idunno> she has been missing since 2018
11:38:10 <hv-bridge> <idunno> It is still just a shot of a theory. But imo it isn’t a long shot