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posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 08 2017, @06:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the imaginary-money dept.

Popular cryptocurrency mining pool NiceHash has been taken offline while it's operators investigate a security breach that has resulted in the contents of their Bitcoin wallet being stolen.

Statement here: https://www.nicehash.com/

CNBC's report on the theft details users of the service conducting their own investigation, uncovering a bitcoin wallet implicated in the theft containing 4736.42 BTC, or $67million in real money.

Story here: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/bitcoin-stolen-in-hack-on-nicehash-cryptocurrency-mining-marketplace.html

With Nicehash's mining pool services offline and user's trust in the service evaporated, cryptocurrency miners flocking to other auto-switching pools are causing major disruption as servers fail to keep up with the sudden influx of demand. At the time of submission, yours truly has been unable to make contact with ahashpool, zpool, miningpoolhub and hashrefinery, receiving CloudFlare's 522 error indicating that the target server is overloaded.

Additional coverage on Engadget.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday December 08 2017, @09:08AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday December 08 2017, @09:08AM (#607136) Journal

    You are aware that a lot of mining happens in China? Probably those are all fake bitcoins! :-)

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday December 08 2017, @12:33PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday December 08 2017, @12:33PM (#607162) Homepage
    That explains why all the kids in that part of the world are dying from exhaust 1s and 0s. I hear there are even paupers in the street sifting through rubbish hoping that they can collect enough 0s and 1s until they can eventually collect enough to make one bitcoin out of them.

    (Why do I get the feeling that someone needs to try and seed the fake news media with something like that, and see if it takes root...)
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