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mircea_popescu: actually brokers also work fine, the only thing off is the website
mircea_popescu: mpex is hanging by a thread, mostly because it doesn't actually need a website
mircea_popescu: something/somebody is going after crucial bitcoin infrastructure
mircea_popescu: anyone want to process a coupla donations to freenode for me ? you need cc/pp
mircea_popescu: ciuciu couldn't afgford to retire his 50 btc debt are you kidding m,e ?
mircea_popescu: and blockchain.info wallet for instance isn't all that fat.
mircea_popescu: ya but ideologically speaking, it'd seem an odd fit to ddos bitcoin
mircea_popescu: also there's risks involved (if you run it continuously isps find your zombies)
mircea_popescu: there's literally not that many people with a botnet good enough
mircea_popescu: not counting the time and effort involved on the admin side
mircea_popescu: even if im getting half of all ddos bitcoing is getting , that puts the total cost of this adventure in the 10k range
mircea_popescu: just the traffic i've clocked, and i've not clocked all of it, would have cost on the black market a good few thousand $$$
mircea_popescu: there is a lot of skill and there are a lot of resources involved with such ample ddosing
mircea_popescu: while it's marginally possible some random internet bloke has the power to be doing all this, it seems somewhat unlikely.
mircea_popescu: lol well folks... i hate to be the one feeding the conspiracy theories, but
mircea_popescu: Namworld im sure one will crop up soon enough, much like pympex did
mircea_popescu: Namworld i suppose you could write an irc bot of your own
mircea_popescu: the drawbacks of having a dayjob lol. it was his idea to start with
mircea_popescu: smickles it shouldn't mention people by name cause of hilighting issue
mircea_popescu: (if anyone doens't know, davout is the frenchie that sold bitcoin to the banking system. bitcoin-central.net)
mircea_popescu: you know, the kid that you take to the park in the stroller, comes back with 3 strollers and a motorbike
mircea_popescu: why you come here bother me i call the police i tell you