if you allow folding, do you allow bitcoin mining?

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offtopic but anyways, minerd is a bitcoin cpu miner, uses a lot of cpu, about 70-100% on windows

Even if it harder to hack it, you should not carry this much bitcoin at one place. What you can do is take a computer, let it run in your house with a firewall that block everything except bitcoin, an

fyi - bitcoin users have a very long history of being absolute retards.

$200K stored on a VPS or not, this is not the fault of the customer. Anybody who knows Bitcoins knows that a wallet has to be stored somewhere. Even with cold storage, it would be pretty silly to only

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So, this bitcoin stuff isn't the same as the bitcoin mining, right?

Meh it was bitcoin... there for imho it was worthless money, not real money anyway. You don't see any legitimate company accepting bc.

All of the bitcoin stuff is just the 'banks', so it's just a simple PHP website that stores the hashes.

And, how Linode let you run this ultra cpu abusive Bitcoin stuff?

"All activity by the intruder was limited to a total of eight customers, all of which had references to "bitcoin"."

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Didn't bitcoin fold last week?

Just to update everyone on the issue, looks like we have a bitcoin mining problem on this node. From a quick glance we see at least 20 users doing this and we think that this may be the issue.

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You're not even going to get 1 bitcoin in a year doing that.

There was a provider who accepted BitCoin as a payment method and probably would have cared about customers privacy, but they are deadpooled now.

maybe for java game servers or bitcoin mining one full cpu and 100% of your allocated ram are necessary, but for standard website hosting, rsync backup, monitoring services etc. you usually need just

* a bitcoin user ripping 400% CPU