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by omginternets 2567 days ago
Of course not.

Are you suggesting that 100% usage implies fraud?

There's a difference between suspecting fraud from high resource usage and equating high resource usage with fraud.

The latter is what is happening, here, and its outrageous.

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That's a simplification of what was happening. It was a combination of indicators that they list:

- A large increase in number of nodes

- All nodes using 100% of CPU

- AND a lack of payment history

I'm merely saying that the lack of payment history is an important indicator of suspicious activity. 100% usage by-itself was not the primary indicator that their article discusses.