Unknown factor in bitcoin pool breakdown

5

Some time ago the breakdown was dangerously close to heaving too heavily towards Deepbit with only a small part unknown/single person miners. Now there's a 34% unknown factor.

What caused this? Are these botnets? People deciding their amortised profit stablises anyway? A drug cartel laundering money?

Lodewijk

Posted 2012-06-12T19:17:19.660

Reputation: 1 447

"close to having to heaving to heavily towards" looks like a typo, but I've no idea what you're trying to say so can't fix it for youChris Moore 2012-06-13T00:15:40.743

Sorry I fixed it.Lodewijk 2012-06-13T07:15:24.913

Answers

2

It is unlikely that we will account for most of the activity, as Bitcoin allows for high anonymity. Some of that hashing power is believed to come from some botnet, but one can't be sure. You could try looking for the owners of the IPs that relay the new blocks and check who they are, but that would be a tedious work that could be easily hidden, for example by relaying blocks through TOR.

ThePiachu

Posted 2012-06-12T19:17:19.660

Reputation: 41 594

It's an answer but I was looking for some more satisfaction than I could derive myself ;)Lodewijk 2012-06-16T11:08:18.370

@Lodewijk I wish I could give a more satisfactory answer. Keep the question open for awhile, maybe someone will know more.ThePiachu 2012-06-16T12:07:03.957