http://mro.extremehash.com/pool

Anyone know why maturity is in the negative??

There is no way that i can see to contact admin - http://mro.extremehash.com/pool

Its a minor error I think just type refresh and enter

I would like to ask you about the botnets in XMR. I've been reading bytecoin thread and stumbled upon XMR mining malware.
There was also a topic on the stealth miner: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/639375.0

Did anybody notice any difficulty spikes in early June?

As I know there was a spike somewhere between late May and early June.
Actually all Monero hashrate history looks spiky, so Monero is a new botnet heaven


http://monerochain.info/charts/difficulty shows it well:

CPU mined coins are subject to botnets by definition. However, this is not what you want for the coin you're mining or investing in. Large botnet share means that the majority of the coins is obtained by the scammers and is likely to be dumped. This can't be good for the long term development because the coins are spread not among the devs or users, but are obtained by botnet holders.

How much is the case for Monero? I really believe that not all of the spikes are due to botnets, but at least some of them could be.

As far as I know this is not a first botnet in Monero history. Heard something about it not so long before june. Well, certainly it’s not a Monero developers fault - they are doing the best they can.

Let's do the math.

Top EC2 instance has around 700 hash/sec. One added instance is likely to have 42,000 difficulty increase.
To get 100,000,000 difficulty increase you'd have to add 2,380 of top EC2 instance. Each of the instances costs more than $1000 per month ($33 per day) and requires some work to increase the limits on your account and prepare the servers for mining.

Not only I don't believe someone invest $80,000 a day to mine XMR, it's very unlikely that it could happen in 2 days.


Yeah yeah, doing the best they can instamining the coin with silently updated hash function and FUDing other topics. lol.

Hey Guys, I'm very new to Monero.
What do you think about the GUI Wallet and Miner from mropool.org ?
Thx for your answers.