📅 Original date posted:2014-08-07
📝 Original message: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.
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2023-06-07 15:24:58
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