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Re:Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account by Buge on Saturday March 29, 2014 @12:27AM (#7491414)
I'm surprised that it was large instances instead of GPU instances. GPU would be much more profitable if you are mining a scrypt coin (or sha256 coin but that would be stupid because of ASICs).

Maybe it was some other type of coin (I'm not sure if primecoin is more CPU-friendly).

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Re:Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account by bwood on Saturday March 29, 2014 @01:07AM (#7491492)
Note that the author is only assuming that bitcoin/altcoin mining was the intended goal of the attack.
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