The below two users seem to have amassed over 100,000,000 credits in a single day.

How is this possible? Is there a bug in the credits for a project that needs to be fixed?

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/user/detail/51/overview

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/user/detail/272/overview

They both seem to be very early adopters of BOINC BAM with their low user ID's, an issue with how credidts are shown per day on stats pages?

Both Crunchers have been active inside BOINC for a long time, as a view of their personal stats and Projects History will show.

What they both did, as have many other Folk, is switch to crunching with Bitcoin Utopia. The latter needs very focused hardware that operates in a different way to General Useage CPUs (ARM Processors), that work on cards inserted into standard PCs. You can also buy dedicated Machines that devote its every "Bit and Byte" to search for BitCoin.

That result's is crunching through problems and "BOINC Points" like there is no tomorrow. Its all perfectly legitimate, and based on the frenzy to find BitCoin in the system.

The main Bitcoin page is at http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/

Dont get sucked into Bitcoin until you have - really, really - done your homework on it. The basis of it is legitimate as a form of Global Monetary System, but its getting harder and harder to "solve" the problems they crunch and "find" the Bitcoin. A big difficulty change happened last year, and it is due to get harder after a change later this year.

There was a time when you could do this search for Bitcoin just with a PC with some success (up to around 2012), however now, by design, its so hard to find the Bitcoin, its needs collaborative clubs banding together to have any chance of success. View it as a bit of fun if you get caught into it, but dont view it as an income source, you will fail in the latter with just a PC in the medium term.

If you want to learn more about Bitcoin, use the search "bitcoin history" in Google, then follow your nose ...... be prepared for a "Steep Learning Curve", because its basis extends Decades and Centuries into the future, not days and years; going deep into an alternative methodology for Global Finance.

A good overview is at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bitcoin

Im aware of Bitcoin and how it works, I actually early adopted it and made a few hundred dollars from selling old coins I forgot I have. Im also aware that is where the points come from.

My question is why, on their 40 day history they jump from 800K points to 184 billion 7 days ago. Sadly I mistyped billion instead of million in my original post and I think you misunderstood my question.

Over the last month/6 weeks or so, BOINCStats has had increasing problems with ageing hardware, that resulted in lots of anomalies surfacing, with incorrect stats being retrieved and calculated for presentation "to screen". Over the last 2 weeks, those hardware problems have been resolved when Willy made a (very) large hardware purchase replacing the disc drives and other things.

Once it was wound back up to full speed et al, a lot of "anomalies" appeared to show up. They were as a result of the stats server/discs now retrieving the base data correctly, and now calculating them, correctly, from the held data. The jumps you will see in some folk are as a result of that. Their actual data and score was always held correctly in the Servers, but due to the increasing hardware breakdown's they were appearing incorrectly "on screen".

The totals are now correct on screen ..... will there be some bad data still lurking, maybe, but very very few if any now. Willy watches this like a Hawk, and data integrity is top of his list.

Yeah watch out for them BitCoin Guy'z, they be Crazy ... lol

Naughty Man .... rofl