500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack (opens in new tab)

I'd love to see that experiment and I'm excited to see the how the process of blacklisting would work.

What would be next? A list of "unshibeful" businesses that are blacklisted? Guns? Drugs? Alcohol?

This is the perfect experiment to see how an un-libertarian, every-man-for-every-other-man interpretation of commerce works out.

The "community" cannot blacklist anything, it's the miners. And it is very unlikely that miners with >50% of the network hashrate would agree to this, since most heavy miners don't really belong to the "community" but are just in it to mine enough to be able to sell to cover their hardware and electricity costs.

This wouldn't really work, as he can just make a large number of addresses and spread the coins out across a huge web. You could theoretically track the web and all the addresses, but you might then be blacklisting companies and individuals who unknowingly accepted his coins.

Unfortunately that's the "beauty" of anonymous decentralised currency.

I don't recall where I got this from, just threw it in to my quotes.txt without referencing it:

"If you collect a bunch of people and tell them to abandon all the social norms like honesty, politeness, respect, charity, and reason in favor of a cause – then the most likely result is that when your cause tries to develop some internal structure, it will be overrun by a swarm of people who have abandoned honesty, politeness, respect, charity, and reason."

Wouldn't discovering a huge dogecoin mine devalue it?

he/she already sold all coins mined and caused market dip

What's a good way to do this? I have a Synology NAS at home but it's behind a NAT except for specific ports for security cameras. I'll confess I have no earthly idea how to tell if it's been hax0red.

In April my university reported several Synology boxes being compromised with "bitcoin" miners. I suspect that was part of this pool.

Nah, I'd rather he not be hanging out on my eventual lunar real estate ;)

That's less true for scrypt based pow chains, although that is rapidly changing with scrypt ASICs now hitting the market.

such hack.

Account deleted, but this says enough. "openshift-arachni 0 Deploy arachni on openshift"

Apparently hacker used Arachni on openshift to scan for vulnerabilities