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April 26, 2017, 11:08:16 PM

http://www.antbleed.com/

How cool is this? Bitmain machines have a wonderful back door.

'the firmware checks-in with a central service randomly every 1 to 11 minutes. Each check-in transmits the Antminer serial number, MAC address and IP address. Bitmain can use this check-in data to cross check against customer sales and delivery records making it personally identifiable. The remote service can then return "false" which will stop the miner from mining.'

Probably the same for all mining machines but it adds to the Bond villain aura.