We have found 3 active ids which had a password reset done by brute-force. These three occurences were targeted attacks against a part of the "bitcoin" community that uses ovh. The h

No it is not, but cheaper than spending a couple of grand on servers. getting someone to manage it and then bitcoin fall apart and your left holding 2 grand worth of worthless servers!

Slush's pool is estimated to currently mine ~350 BTC / per day... or ~$49,000 / day in USD. 8% of all bitcoins mined goes to Slush's pool right now.

The only links I can find on Google relate to bitcoin forums / twitter, where this story is getting spread. I haven't seen any OVH related status update on this.

TWO servers run by two different administrators were hacked, both of whom were using OVH. That is Slush's BTC pool, as well as Bitcoin-Central.net.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186902.msg1936161#msg1936161

Without employment... impossible id say, but prepaid CCs are popular ( http://kreditkarte.at ), in fact so anonymous and popular that people in Austria buy lots of them to sell them for bitcoin...

We have an automated system in place that automatically montiors node loads, as well as processes that break our TOS (bitcoin miners, etc). Processes that are being abusive of CPU are rate limited aut

Payment via: Paypal and Bitcoin (BitPay)

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So much Bitcoin will be run...

I thought I read that the latest bitcoin client doesn't even support CPU-based mining anymore...only GPU-based.

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Again? Did they not learn after the bitcoin hack?

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bitcoin to do what? for transaction? You want users to buy from each other by paying in bitcoins?

How about a simple text only classified script that uses bitcoin?

In most of the world, a clause in a contract that prohibits Bitcoin mining doesn't make mining illegal, just a breach of contract. In the US there's the CFAA, but that's a stretch, and it's very quest

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