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Bitmain installs remote KILL-SWITCHES on the ASIC miners.
It is not secret anymore that Bitmain installs remote kill switches on ASICs.
"Antbleed is a backdoor introduced by Bitmain into the firmware of their bitcoin mining hardware Antminer"
https://www.antbleed.com/
Maybe it is for emergency to destroy all ASIC miners they have sold to perform 51% attack easy. Evil as hell
Please, give me some better reason, why they still want to take control (disable) the ASICs they have sold?
"The remote service can then return "false" which will stop the miner from mining."
It is like some criminal is pointing gun at your head and in case can easy pull the trigger whenever he wants...
"Antbleed is a backdoor introduced by Bitmain into the firmware of their bitcoin mining hardware Antminer"
https://www.antbleed.com/
Maybe it is for emergency to destroy all ASIC miners they have sold to perform 51% attack easy. Evil as hell
Please, give me some better reason, why they still want to take control (disable) the ASICs they have sold?
"The remote service can then return "false" which will stop the miner from mining."
It is like some criminal is pointing gun at your head and in case can easy pull the trigger whenever he wants...
Comments
Bitmain says it is and anti theft tool that never worked and they left the a bug hanging there. ridiculous
Jihan Wu
“IT is a bug that we have leave a incomplete feature in the code base. It is supposed to be a feature to help our customers to track their mining rigs when they host rigs in some service providers with uncertainty. The feature development was incomplete due to some technical problems, but sadly the code is still there. The testing server has been shuttled down long time ago. We would suggest our users to upgrade to new firmware, or simply block the DNS of auth.minerlink.com.”
https://www.ccn.com/jihan-wu-confirms-claims-of-a-backdoor-in-bitmain-apologizes-says-its-a-bug/