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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @tomlaies 20 Jun 2022 \ on: Tor is under attack (DDoS) bitcoin

that's crazy - if you think about who would have incentives/ a motive to do so. I can only think about governments or anti-piracy companies...

9 sats \ 1 reply \ @shyfire OP 20 Jun 2022

My vote is that it's a Chainalysis company doing this :P

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 21 Jun 2022

oh, that makes a lot of sense as well

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake 20 Jun 2022

govts & anti-privacy actors... that's a pretty big list.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 20 Jun 2022

We should add Chainalysis companies to the list :)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 20 Jun 2022

how expensive is it to run a ddos attack like this?

75 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 20 Jun 2022

I don't know the exact prices but I know there are ready to buy botnets on the Darkweb. So it's actually quite commoditized - and there are many +3 year old android phones that don't get security updates anymore, it's not a rare resource.

If a major player does so, they probably need to pay a law firm which in turn uses an IT service shell company which costs a lot - I'm speculating here, this is far from any evidence that this happened.