Cause of the botnet ( DEBUNKED )

[Lexicon]

hes already hit 13 blocks today.
changes his nickname to google

and also now solo mining.

[HiDevin]

@Lexicon yea, his estimated plot size if he was running " legit " would be 2.592 PB

[arihan]

@Lexicon @HiDevin As mentioned in the other thread 7 of his blocks have also been from the SAME nuance number... How is that possible?? Surely the odds is more than the universe for it to win 7 blocks in such a small amount of time.

These blocks;

374232
374469
374519
374525
374612
374624
374693

[gpedro]

@arihan That's odd...

[socalguy]

@gpedro very odd...

[haitch]

@arihan The nonce number that won all the blocks is the maximum longint number that Java can display. The blocks were apparently won with a nonce number in excess of that, but it couldn't be displayed properly.

[gpedro]

@haitch But how is that possible if that LongInt is the max index of nonces that can exist on one account? How can he be winning blocks with a nonce higher than that? Don't make sense...

[haitch]

@gpedro I was mistaken that max longint is the nonce number limit, it goes higher. https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/6390/has-pajeet-found-an-exploit-in-the-mining-system/129

[jant90]

@haitch said in Cause of the botnet ( in response to " pajeet " exploit ):

@Marc That plotter would be useful to a botnet, but not for a dedicated miner. See above for why.

@Evo A scoop is a scoop is a scoop. Each nonce is a hash of the previous nonce. The hashes in the scoop number are then combined with the previous blocks gensig, and hashed again, then computed against the block target height. A scoop at the beginning of the file is just as likely to win as the last scoop.

So the assumption of the author of SPlotter is incorrect and smaller plot files shouldn't lead to lower deadlines at all? I don't understand the math/algorithm behind mining at all but I do think the author realizes that nonces are nonces and scoops are scoops. The way I read it is that for the miner (that calculates the deadline right?) it matters what the relative position of the nonce within the plot is and by generating many small plots these positions are different I guess?

His "evidence" (the screenshot he posted) sure looks convincing.

[haitch]

@jant90 It's complete and utter BS.

I have Burst account X, I plot a single 500GB plot of nonces 0...Y. I also plot 100 5GB files for nonces 0...Y.

A nonce is computationally derived from your ID, the last scoop number, the value of scoop(4096). So both the single 500GB file and the 100 x 5GB files will have exactly the same data in them.

Which plot do you think will be more efficiently and quickly mined?

[Lunas]

I don't really know just how bad this is for burst bottom line is he still needs to have the storage space available. If he is doing it without permission and illegally then he will be arrested not like it is not eventually traceable. If he legit has 15k some pc under his control and he just plotted all of them. It sucks but i don't see what can be done about it. Can't really limit the number of ips reporting per wallet. You also can't just ban him for running 15k pc to add up to a multi petabyte array. Problem i am seeing coming from this is anyone with a sizeable network under their control might do something like this. No there is no fix for this from inside burst it must be fixed outside and that fix will be law enforcement and arresting him. If he is doing this legit then there is no fix.

And the miner and plotter are already detected by many virus scanners.

[haitch]

@Lunas For all we know, these really are the Google Datacenter servers mining Burst with their free space - I really doubt it, but it's potentially feasible, Arresting the bot manager is very, very unlikely.

[Lunas]

@haitch just saying if he did do it without his company's permission or did it like a virus it will likely come back to him the bigger issues are what is it going to do to burst in the meantime and what does it mean for the future of burst coin. Will we see an explosive increase in difficulty like what happened with Sha-256 and Scrypt based coins when ASIC came out for them or will this be a flash in the pan.

[haitch]

@Lunas ASIC's for Burst aren't going to happen, but the difficulty is increasing rapidly, relatively speaking - Burst difficulty is expressed as estimated capacity of the network. It's gone from 15,000 - 20,000 to 51,000 to 69,000. That's an increase of potentially 40PB of storage.

I'm an infrastructure guy, so don't know the intricacies of the internal workings of the wallet, but I'm confident the wallet devs are brainstorming how to shut this botnet down.

[FlippyCakes]

I really don't think it's possible to shut down this avenue without a massive change to Burst. He may be using a botnet, but he's got the storage (i.e. is doing the "work" in PoS) so he's following the rules of the network. I think we're seeing the beginning of a new era in Burst, brought to us by the increased price/adoption. Likely, as with the Bitcoin ASIC paradigm shift, it's going to mean some reduced decentralization.

[haitch]

@FlippyCakes All the "popular" coins have had mining bots, so it's not the end of the world, it's just not good press. On the positive side, Burst has got onto someones radar to the point they think it's worth creating a botnet for Burst. The hackers don't do that until they see a profit margin.

[Gibsalot]

we at 84k on the net diff for this block 374783

[falconCoin]

@Gibsalot can you give us more info what that means?

trying to learn, but not sure what that means

[haitch]

@falconCoin The coin difficulty is expressed in how many TB the wallet thinks is on the network. The coin has gone from 15-20 PB, to 60-85PB. Basically, difficulty has tripled/quadrupled.

[Gibsalot]

@falconCoin the network difficulty ........ efectivly based on how fast the last few blocks have been found and the difficulty seting they was found at the network has estimated there are aprox 84k peta on the network and raised the mining difficulty to adjust........ basicly any pool or miner will see diff stat or a netdiff stat ....... simply that how the network auto adjust the diff to aim for a 4 min block find time based on aprox amount of mining power on the network.......... the last 4 weeks it has shoot throu the roof...............
4 weeks ago the Netdiff was siting around 22k , it has goten vary hard to mine burst in the last 4 weeks ....... anyone with less than 10TB has to be hating life as they have seen the effects first im sure