On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:02:21 PM Pedro Worcel wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering if you guys have come across this article: > > http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/ > > The TL;DR is that somebody is abusing the BGP protocol to be in a position > where they can intercept the miner traffic. The concerning point is that > they seem to be having some degree of success in their endeavour and > earning profits from it. > > I do not understand the impact of this (I don't know much about BGP, the > mining protocol nor anything else, really), but I thought it might be worth > putting it up here.
This is old news; both BFGMiner and Eloipool were hardened against it a long time ago (although no Bitcoin pools have deployed it so far). I'm not aware of any actual case of it being used against Bitcoin, though - the target has always been scamcoins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
