Botnet mining
some malware also make great use of the parallel computing power of graphics cards. In August 2011, botnet of bitcoin mining was discovered, and Mac OS X infected by Trojan horse was also discovered to mine bitcoin.
on June 19, 2011, security vulnerability of mt.gox (Magic: abbreviation of the gathering online exchange) bitcoin trading center caused the price of 1 bitcoin to drop to 1 cent (although other transactions were not affected). The reason is that a hacker stole the user's mtgox certificate from the computer infected with the Trojan horse, so he transferred bitcoin to his own account and sold it, resulting in a large number of "ask" requests at that price. A few minutes later, mtgox shut down and cancelled the abnormal transactions in the hacking incident, making the price of bitcoin rebound back to $15. In the end, the bitcoin exchange rate went back to what it was before the crash. Accounts equivalent to more than $8750000 were affected
in July 2011, the operator of bitomat, the world's third largest bitcoin trading center, announced the loss of access rights to the wallet.dat file that records 17000 bitcoins (about 220000 US dollars). At the same time, announced the decision to sell services to make up for the loss of users
in August 2011, mybitcoin, one of the processing centers of common bitcoin transactions, announced that it had been attacked by hackers and shut down. Involving 49% of customers' deposits, more than 78000 bitcoins (then equivalent to about $800000) are missing
in early August 2012, bitconica was sued in the San Francisco court for damages of about $460000. In 2012, bitconica was attacked twice by hackers, accused of ignoring the security of customers' funds and forging withdrawal applications
in late August 2012, bitcoin savings and trust was shut down by its owner, leaving about US $5.6 million in debt. At the same time, he was accused of operating the Ponzi scheme. In September 2012, the securities and Exchange Commission began to investigate the case
in September 2012, bitfloor trading center was also hacked, and 24000 bitcoins (about US $250000) were stolen. Bitfloor was suspended. Bitfloor resumed operations in the same month, and its founder said he had reported the theft to the FBI and that he was planning to compensate the victims, but the compensation schele was unclear
in June 2011, a hacker transferred 25000 bitcoins into his account, which is equivalent to 500000 US dollars. The whole transaction could not be traced. Although the owner of bitcoin announced the theft on the Internet, it was useless. The hacker became the first thief of bitcoin
in 2012, 46703 bitcoin worth US $228845 was stolen e to the disclosure of the super management password of the server of the website hosting provider linode. More than 43000 stolen bitcoins belong to bitcoinica, a bitcoin trading platform. Another 3094 bitcoins are owned by Marek palatinus, a Czech programmer. Gavin Andersen, the chief bitcoin programmer, also lost his five bitcoins.
It's a scam. Many Internet enterprises and network security enterprises believe that illegal "mining" has become a serious network security problem
with the rise of "cloud mining", the virtual machine has become the main use object of digital currency such as Monroe coin and Eli coin, and the situation of embezzling cloud computing resources for "mining" has also increased significantly; Security team monitoring found that "competing for mining machine" has become one of the important purposes of Botnet expansion; And found a new type of "mining" virus (mining XmR / Monroe), the virus spread wildly in two months, illegal "mining" profits of nearly one million yuan
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from a commercial point of view, the business model of mining can walk out of a "healthy road". As long as the "incentive money" is lower than the average cost of new users in the market, the business model will be reasonable and feasible
however, if the platform tempts users to participate with "no capital, no profit", it is worth being vigilant. The so-called "mining" opportunity provided by the platform is likely to be "digging a good hole" waiting for you to jump in
by 2140, the total number of bitcoins was 21 million. I suggest you buy it< In 2009, a mysterious hacker named Satoshi nakomoto first proposed the concept of bitcoin, and described a method of using computer networks to create an unmanaged "secret currency". Unlike other virtual currencies, bitcoin is not issued by a company or a central bank, nor linked to any real currency, but can be used to buy goods and services in the real world. In essence, it can be seen as a small string of encrypted code quickly transmitted and stored in the electronic wallet on the Internet. Just as the P2P networks such as Napster and Skype once made the record instry and telephone instry into a mess, bitcoin, which challenges the modern monetary and financial science, is also based on P2P - the same as our commonly used BT download technology. The advantage of P2P is to ensure that no institution can manipulate the value of bitcoin or increase the supply to create inflation. In a huge P2P network, bitcoin has a special algorithm, which proces about 300 bitcoins per hour. This output is automatically adjusted by the network. Because you can't control most of the network nodes, you can't modify the algorithm of each user to speed up the money proction. Figuratively speaking, bitcoin is "mined" by computers all over the world. If you want to get bitcoin, you just need to install mining software, and your computer will start to do a lot of calculations, which is mining. No matter which computer is used to mine, it is easy to get 50 bitcoins in the early days of bitcoin. As early as January this year, 50 bitcoin was not worth $15, but on June 9, a bitcoin was worth as much as $29.55. If you trade them, you can get back $1500 of real gold and silver. Now, however, mining requires high-performance computers, and some developers involved say that it is estimated that an ordinary laptop will work for five years to get a bitcoin. Why is that? We have to start with the currency itself. Economics tells us that money exists because of transactions. The value of bitcoin lies in the transaction itself. In order to transfer bitcoin from one account to another, there must be a secure channel. To create a secure channel, a lot of energy will be consumed. Therefore, the whole bitcoin user group should reward the mint (50 bitcoin). In other words, he succeeded in mining. Mining, in essence, is the process of creating new blocks (each block contains 50 bitcoin) on P2P network. In short, the software algorithm determines that it is difficult to create a new block that is recognized by the whole network. If there are more participants, the new block will be generated more slowly. Just like mining, with the depletion of the most accessible resources (assuming no newly discovered mineral deposits), the supply will graally decrease. According to the algorithm, each block can only generate 25 bitcoins by 2013, 12.5 bitcoins by 2017, and so on. By 2030, the total number will stay at a platform, about 21 million. Graphically, this will be a flat curve. Reality also proves this point. As the value of bitcoin rises and the number of participants increases, mining becomes more and more difficult. At the forum, miners discussed how to use dry ice and liquid nitrogen to cool computers, increase CPU frequency and speed up mining software, or customize top computer graphics cards and improve network speed to proce more bitcoin. According to the guardian, someone was mysteriously mining at home, and even was suddenly attacked by the police, who mistook him for drug trafficking. Recently, Symantec, a digital security company, discovered a new trojan virus. This malicious program, coinbit, is used to steal numbers, so that hackers can easily break into users' bitcoin wallets and steal their contents. Before the June 19 incident, members of the lulzsec hacker group and anonymous team had discovered that there was a better way to mine - to use someone else's computer. These hacker groups are famous for their server attacks mainly relying on botnets. Some members found that some miners actually use their botnets to mine. The miners are also said to be hackers, who have used botnets to control more than 100000 computers. With the scale of the current network, the efficiency of mining can be greatly improved. It is estimated that 400 to 500 bitcoins can be proced every day, and the current value is more than 8000 US dollars (as of June 28, 2011, 1 bitcoin = 16.9 US dollars). There are two groups of people in the bitcoin community. One group denies that someone is using botnet to mine. The other group says that this is a fact and admits that botnet computing has dropped dramatically. An anonymous person said it was clear that there were people who thought that participation in mining would be more rewarding than attacking mining.
of course, bitcoin is not perfect. Even if it is bad, at least it will be better than legal currency in one point, that is, there will be no inflation.
For bitcoin, the virtual currency, our first impression may be that it sometimes increases its price accordingly. Well, we can understand what happened. But for the current overall situation, bitcoin is also cooling down accordingly< we all feel very strange that many people will not choose to sell at this time. At the same time, we can also understand the occurrence of this event, because the comparative currency is particularly unstable to think of him, first of all, he is not affected by the economic market, which is also the solution we can think of{ RRRRR}
and for this problem, that is to say, we should have a good understanding of the current problem and keep a calm attitude. In this way, we can solve this problem better, which is also the result we all like to see< so this also tells us that when we deal with these problems, we should not panic and keep a rational attitude, so that we can solve the relevant problems to the greatest extent, which is also the solution we all hope to see . Therefore, it also tells us that for ourselves, the main reason is to clean it up. In this way, it is very good