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Title: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 01, 2012, 09:58:12 PM Hi,
Today, Linode was compromised and a lot of users lost a LOT of Bitcoins. One user in particular, was slush. Slush owns/maintains one of the longest running pools and has been an asset to the community since day 1. Due to the unsettling news of loss that slush has endured; BitVPS will be donating 40% of new user fees directly to slush to help him recoup losses. Any ex-customers of Linode are more than welcome. Please use coupon code 'SLUSH' during sign up to get 15% off *any* package and 40% of your fee will be donated right to slush. [slush(~marekp@unaffiliated/slush)] I cannot express how I appreciate this kind of support Let's show slush how appreciative we can really be. If you dont want a VPS, donations can be sent directly to us at 1BTL7H2nfBMaKmShK4exL74CaLGvXJjAzZ I will post a donation address for slush as soon as he works out whats safe/what isn't. http://www.bitvps.com James "rg" Edward Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: ageisp0lis on March 01, 2012, 10:05:22 PM rg is really a good guy, forget about the reputation preceding him!
and he sells only the best VPS. the Bitcoin community rises to the challenge. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: blueadept on March 01, 2012, 10:07:27 PM I'll vouch for rg; he's the trader I trust most in OTC other than people I know IRL from before Bitcoin existed.
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 01, 2012, 10:19:35 PM rg is really a good guy, forget about the reputation preceding him! and he sells only the best VPS. the Bitcoin community rises to the challenge. What reputation? <g> Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: Daily Anarchist on March 01, 2012, 11:30:33 PM How many of us use Linode? I do and I asked if they would accept Bitcoin as payment in the IRC channel and I got laughed at. If there are enough of us, we should sign a petition to Linode telling them they we will take our business elsewhere(bitVPS?) if they don't start accepting Bitcoin as payment.
Maybe the owner of bitVPS can get something like this going. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: Raoul Duke on March 01, 2012, 11:53:16 PM How many of us use Linode? I do and I asked if they would accept Bitcoin as payment in the IRC channel and I got laughed at. If there are enough of us, we should sign a petition to Linode telling them they we will take our business elsewhere(bitVPS?) if they don't start accepting Bitcoin as payment. Maybe the owner of bitVPS can get something like this going. If Bitcoin is so worthless to them that they laugh at it maybe they can just refund Slush and the Faucet of the worthless money they got stolen because one of their support guys clearly can't keep his passwords safe. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 02, 2012, 12:52:26 AM Lol.
I'm not going to fight to get them to accept Bitcoin. That would effectively take business away from us. James Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 02, 2012, 12:56:28 AM Honestly guys, I don't care about Linode. I care about Bitcoin and friends of mine, like slush.
However, it does stand to reason, if this issue happened, who knows whats coming down the line. I can tell you that you wouldn't be able to do what happened on Linode with our console. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: PLATO on March 02, 2012, 01:14:49 AM just wanna point out that another way to help slush is to rate him on -otc for his integrity in covering his losses out of pocket (as long as you belive him, as I do)
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: Daily Anarchist on March 02, 2012, 01:22:42 AM Lol. I'm not going to fight to get them to accept Bitcoin. That would effectively take business away from us. James Doesn't further acceptance of Bitcoin help us all, though? But yes, I understand that your business is contingent upon competitors not accepting Bitcoin as payment. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: HorseRider on March 02, 2012, 02:37:09 AM will you buy some FPGA mining machines and sell the mining shares to us?
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: phantomcircuit on March 02, 2012, 03:14:04 AM People should be completele aware of what they are dealing with.
BitVPS's WHMCS installation was hacked recently and user data likely compromised. It is well known that their administrators regularly inspect users hard drives. Look before you leap. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: Raoul Duke on March 02, 2012, 03:15:33 AM People should be completele aware of what they are dealing with. BitVPS's WHMCS installation was hacked recently and user data likely compromised. It is well known that their administrators regularly inspect users hard drives. Look before you leap. So that's the previous reputation one of the posters was talking about... :-\ Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: bbit on March 02, 2012, 03:22:12 AM People should be completele aware of what they are dealing with. BitVPS's WHMCS installation was hacked recently and user data likely compromised. It is well known that their administrators regularly inspect users hard drives. Look before you leap. So that's the previous reputation one of the posters was talking about... :-\ lol ^^ this :\ not going to lie but advertising your business at time like this is pretty low don't you think? stay classy! Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 02, 2012, 03:31:21 AM People should be completele aware of what they are dealing with. BitVPS's WHMCS installation was hacked recently and user data likely compromised. It is well known that their administrators regularly inspect users hard drives. Look before you leap. Are you kidding me phantomcircuit? Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 02, 2012, 03:37:21 AM phantomcircuit... i cant believe you'd take this as an opportunity to discredit a competitor when i'm trying to help slush out..
dirty pool mister, dirty pool. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 02, 2012, 03:48:22 AM Ugh now I have to respond to this:
Last Saturday, around 11am, the WHMCS was compromised, I was logged in at the time and noticed it immediately ( the login pops up on the main page). I disabled Apache, downloaded the newest version from LicensePal and upgraded it, it corrupted a bit, so i installed a backup I had of it from a day prior. Nothing was taken, nothing happened. There are access restrictions on the account that runs WHMCS, it cant execute commands, each webapp runs seperately in its own user. In regards to inspecting users hard drives, this is only true in some instances; Like extended CPU usage beyond system limits (we allow a certian period of 100% utilization dependent on the plan you ordered). This can be a misconfiguration or a misbehaving program. Ask anyone who this has happened to.. I never snooped through anything. I tried to help them fix it. That was it.. very eventful phantomcircuit, the man who hangs around in support channels to dig up dirt on competitors. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: ageisp0lis on March 02, 2012, 04:01:54 AM Quote So that's the previous reputation one of the posters was talking about... no, that was a joke that people who know him would understand. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 02, 2012, 04:04:46 AM no more. this thread is about helping slush not bitvps and phantomcircuit being a dick. we have our own forum thread for trolling.
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: Jonathan Ryan Owens on March 02, 2012, 04:08:30 AM Better idea:
If you have a hot wallet with 3,000 - 42,000 Bitcoin, please consider running your own dedicated machine, including dedicated hardware firewall. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 02, 2012, 04:09:36 AM don't be a dick
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: phantomcircuit on March 02, 2012, 04:29:16 AM BitVPS is an excellent VPS provider, but treating them as a secure alternative to linode without really thinking about the security considerations involved would be a bad idea.
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: Raoul Duke on March 02, 2012, 04:32:26 AM Better idea: If you have a hot wallet with 3,000 - 42,000 Bitcoin, please consider running your own dedicated machine under your bed, including dedicated hardware firewall. If i had a server with a hot wallet containing 42k bitcoins I would host it under my bed :P Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: The LT on March 02, 2012, 05:04:33 AM Better idea: If you have a hot wallet with 3,000 - 42,000 Bitcoin, please consider running your own dedicated machine, including dedicated hardware firewall. And what would that accomplish exactly? Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: MPOE-PR on March 02, 2012, 03:15:30 PM Quote If you have a hot wallet with 3,000 - 42,000 Bitcoin, please consider running your own dedicated machine, including dedicated hardware firewall. This. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 07, 2012, 02:38:08 AM Hi guys! We have a total of 11 BTC going to slush so far! May not seem like much but anything helps.
Thank you to everyone who has donated/signed up/etc James Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: shakaru on March 07, 2012, 02:49:26 AM This is a great idea. Slush has been one of my favorite pools for so long and knowing the problems the man has gone through by just keeping a pool with this many users and the things that happen when your trafficking volume like his is a sheer testament to the drive that is bitcoin and success.
BitVPS wants to help? Great! Keep up the good work for the community. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 11, 2012, 12:14:46 PM Hey guys, here are some stats:
Sunday, March 11th, the first donations went to slush. Total: 6.73 BTC Txid: 80a600e97ad73386b57a9cf96da83f997cbf9593b74b7c249c777d9257e90f35 Thanks everyone who donated! We'll keep accepting funds for a while longer! Remember: use coupon code 'SLUSH' when ordering your VPS. OpenVZ Plan 1 excluded. (It's already about a BTC, we cant lose any more on it, its very close to cost) James! Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: neofutur on March 11, 2012, 12:21:34 PM I'll vouch for rg; he's the trader I trust most in OTC other than people I know IRL from before Bitcoin existed. I ll also vouch for rg, a trusted #bitcoin-otc member, and I also trust him to provide very good VPS services and support on #bitvps ( I m more used to dedicated servers but still very happy of my bitvps ;) ). http://serajewelks.bitcoin-otc.com/trustgraph.php?source=ne0futur&dest=rg Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 11, 2012, 12:25:51 PM Hey guys, here are some stats: Sunday, March 11th, the first donations went to slush. Total: 6.73 BTC Txid: 80a600e97ad73386b57a9cf96da83f997cbf9593b74b7c249c777d9257e90f35 Thanks everyone who donated! We'll keep accepting funds for a while longer! Remember: use coupon code 'SLUSH' when ordering your VPS. OpenVZ Plan 1 excluded. (It's already about a BTC, we cant lose any more on it, its very close to cost) James! When I got my server I did not use a coupon code :/ Is it too late? Hello Sir, just email james@bitvps.com with your name and a Bitcoin address and I'll make sure you get your 15% and slush gets his donation :) Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: P4man on March 11, 2012, 01:01:25 PM Hey guys, here are some stats: Sunday, March 11th, the first donations went to slush. Total: 6.73 BTC Only 3087.27 BTC to go then :) Anyway, needed a VPS, so I signed up. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: nebulus on March 11, 2012, 03:11:08 PM SLUSH is a dinosaur, P2Pool all the way.
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: dirtycat on March 11, 2012, 03:22:42 PM Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 14, 2012, 04:20:11 AM You stupid motherfuckers. Im all for P2pool but the way you guys advertise/plug it is DEPLORABLE. This thread has nothing to do with slush's pool. It has to do with us helping someone in the community who's helped us all mine thousands upon thousands of Bitcoins and got dealt a bad hand. So, Fuck off. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: neofutur on March 14, 2012, 04:25:27 AM BitVPS is an excellent VPS provider, but treating them as a secure alternative to linode without really thinking about the security considerations involved would be a bad idea. Personaly I dont treat them as "a secure alternative to linode" , clearly no more than any other provider or even datacenter. Shit happen, to everyone, but having skillfull and fast reaction + good IRC support . . . is still interesting, the Web of trust too ;) Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: DILLIGAF on March 14, 2012, 04:48:10 AM You stupid motherfuckers. Im all for P2pool but the way you guys advertise/plug it is DEPLORABLE. This thread has nothing to do with slush's pool. It has to do with us helping someone in the community who's helped us all mine thousands upon thousands of Bitcoins and got dealt a bad hand. So, Fuck off. More along the lines of you making money off that misery and tossing slush a piece of it, I fail to see where you are offering to help anyone without first getting yours. So it is a toss up in the deplorable advertising department here. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: dirtycat on March 14, 2012, 09:15:43 AM You stupid motherfuckers. Im all for P2pool but the way you guys advertise/plug it is DEPLORABLE. This thread has nothing to do with slush's pool. It has to do with us helping someone in the community who's helped us all mine thousands upon thousands of Bitcoins and got dealt a bad hand. So, Fuck off. More along the lines of you making money off that misery and tossing slush a piece of it, I fail to see where you are offering to help anyone without first getting yours. So it is a toss up in the deplorable advertising department here. p2pool FTW! Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: draco49 on March 14, 2012, 10:17:55 AM More along the lines of you making money off that misery and tossing slush a piece of it, I fail to see where you are offering to help anyone without first getting yours. So it is a toss up in the deplorable advertising department here. That's a really cynical and uninformed opinion. BitVPS is small company providing excellent service at a minimal cost. With these donation-driven sign-ups, I imagine that RG's probably just about at-cost on the services provided. He's trying to a good thing using the vehicle he's already got in place, and it's not very fair of you to insinuate that this is a money-making scheme. Also, he provided a direct Bitcoin address for people to donate without purchasing BitVPS service. Don't be such a troll. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: DILLIGAF on March 14, 2012, 10:31:22 AM More along the lines of you making money off that misery and tossing slush a piece of it, I fail to see where you are offering to help anyone without first getting yours. So it is a toss up in the deplorable advertising department here. That's a really cynical and uninformed opinion. BitVPS is small company providing excellent service at a minimal cost. With these donation-driven sign-ups, I imagine that RG's probably just about at-cost on the services provided. He's trying to a good thing using the vehicle he's already got in place, and it's not very fair of you to insinuate that this is a money-making scheme. Also, he provided a direct Bitcoin address for people to donate without purchasing BitVPS service. Don't be such a troll. If he had wanted to help slush without making money off of it then he could simply have posted a donation address. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: Wordlet on March 14, 2012, 11:24:09 PM I donate blood every 8 weeks, and I go see movies about once every couple months. I earn 'points' that I can redeem for free movie tickets by giving blood. This makes going to the movies cheaper. If I didn't earn points, I would still donate blood, and I would still go to the movies.
What BitVPS is doing is similar. They are offering a discount for people who want a VPS, and also want to donate to slush. Without this, they would probably still be getting a VPS, it's hardly an impulse purchase market afaik. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 15, 2012, 11:33:33 AM Everyone who's signed up so far (that's contacted me and ive spoken to) was already getting a VPS and decided to help slush.
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 15, 2012, 11:35:21 AM You stupid motherfuckers. Im all for P2pool but the way you guys advertise/plug it is DEPLORABLE. This thread has nothing to do with slush's pool. It has to do with us helping someone in the community who's helped us all mine thousands upon thousands of Bitcoins and got dealt a bad hand. So, Fuck off. I am one of the loudest P2Pool supporters, and I agree, this has nothing to do with Slush's pool. And it's certainly nice to see someone who doesn't disappear when the shit hits the fan (even if I think the fan could have been in a location with a lower possibility of flying shit). Props to Slush and Zhou. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to promote P2Pool over traditional pools. And this situation is certainly one of them. There is no "hot wallet" to be stolen from P2Pool. But, Slush isn't disappearing, he is doing the right thing, and protecting his miners by paying out the stolen funds from his own pocket, which he should. Regardless of what you think of traditional pools, Slush is doing the right thing. Also, I hope, rg and anyone else, that you aren't letting a few guys with no tact sour your opinion of P2Pool or the miners there. I respect all the pool ops, even if I do go out of my way to convince others that traditional pools aren't always the best choice when it comes to mining. ;) Pool ops provided a valuable service allowing small miners to get a slice of the pie in the face of increasing difficulty. Without them, the network would be nowhere close to the size it is now! That said, I hope every pool can be a "smart pool" similar to P2Pool some day. :D Nah it didnt. I asked nanotube if these guys were even involved with p2pool and he informed me they're nobodies. So no big deal, just typical forum lamers :) Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rapeghost on March 15, 2012, 11:41:09 AM Second payment out to slush, 3.60 BTC
TXID fe5e245e30867dbd75588b80716b8e6ffcf27d171a4e6add6c9977b536c36b8e Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: nebulus on March 15, 2012, 12:34:19 PM Also, I hope, rg and anyone else, that you aren't letting a few guys with no tact sour your opinion of P2Pool or the miners there. You are kidding, right? Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: dirtycat on March 15, 2012, 01:18:37 PM Second payment out to slush, 3.60 BTC TXID fe5e245e30867dbd75588b80716b8e6ffcf27d171a4e6add6c9977b536c36b8e quit feeding that morbidly obese pool.. you should donate that to p2pool to help support and promote its decentralized nature! Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rjk on March 15, 2012, 03:03:49 PM Second payment out to slush, 3.60 BTC TXID fe5e245e30867dbd75588b80716b8e6ffcf27d171a4e6add6c9977b536c36b8e quit feeding that morbidly obese pool.. you should donate that to p2pool to help support and promote its decentralized nature! Get a clue before you shoot off your idiotisms. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: slush on March 15, 2012, 03:16:49 PM rapeghost & all others - I'd like to thank you for all your support, both financial and moral. 3000 BTC is really lot of money for me, but this helps me to pass on :-).
Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: dirtycat on March 15, 2012, 08:35:02 PM Second payment out to slush, 3.60 BTC TXID fe5e245e30867dbd75588b80716b8e6ffcf27d171a4e6add6c9977b536c36b8e quit feeding that morbidly obese pool.. you should donate that to p2pool to help support and promote its decentralized nature! Get a clue before you shoot off your idiotisms. yes morbidly obese. 3k stolen.. that pool can afford it. its part part of the business.. security was lax.. someone wasnt on their A game.. bite the bullet and move on. p2pool.. supports merged.. im doing it now.. read the faq y0! its very easy to setup.. unless your a moose. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: rjk on March 15, 2012, 08:41:04 PM p2pool.. supports merged.. im doing it now.. read the faq y0! Read again. It supports "merged" in the same way as solo-mining. Only one p2pool user gets the entire 50NMC block reward and it isn't split.And if you want to talk about pool size, I dunno why you aren't discussing Derpbit. Much larger. Title: Re: BitVPS WANTS TO HELP SLUSH -- YOU CAN TOO Post by: dirtycat on March 15, 2012, 08:47:27 PM p2pool.. supports merged.. im doing it now.. read the faq y0! Read again. It supports "merged" in the same way as solo-mining. Only one p2pool user gets the entire 50NMC block reward and it isn't split.And if you want to talk about pool size, I dunno why you aren't discussing Derpbit. Much larger. ahem.. read again.. if your into litecoin you can do p2pool for that oddball coin. ya... true.. i do like slushs pool. simple and straight to the point. lets all make up and be friends! |