Everything is running fine now, even was able to change the ID so that when you receive a payment it will say Noobpool instead of just the wallet address.  And I did find the issue and fixed it.  Doesn't look like there are any other vulnerabilities.  The good thing is that the software is set to start sending out payments as soon as we find a block, so that will keep any thief from being able to get much if any if they somehow found another way to hack us.  I've also setup alerts so if there are any unauthorized transactions I'll be alerted right away on my phone, which is always with me.  Since they do a test transaction first of 0 eth, then start to take money several minutes later it will give me enough time to protect any eth in the account.  But I doubt that will be an issue again anyway.

And as a final measure of safety, I'll move any excess eth to a secure wallet on another system then I can move it back when it's needed, until i'm confident that we are safe from more attacks.

I'm not giving up on finding who did it though, they only got about $100 worth of ETH, there has to be some IP fingerprint somewhere and when I find it and track them down, I'll go to their house and rape them.  Literally.  They steal from me it becomes prison rules.

Yes, that was related.  It's fixed now, I believe I've also plugged the hole that allowed the eth to be stolen.  To test it I sent some eth to the pool account.

I'm working on this, I've only known about it for about 2 hours.  I'm checking logs, changed passwords, and am trying to figure out how and if this can happen again. 

Apparently there were a lot of compromised accounts and somehow our main account was one of them, early this morning someone cleaned out our account, however there was only about .6 ETH stolen.  I have since reset our account password and was forced to restart the node.  Everything is fine now and if needed, I'll use my own eth to replace what was stolen.  This does not effect any miners and you're pending amounts are safe. 

That's a really good question.  The pool does have a 0% fee and I don't know the address it was sent to, how, or why it was done.  No one has access to the account except for me and I was still sleeping at the time it happened.  I'm going to look into this.

Some pools are willing to manually cash you out if requested, but a cash out button would allow others to cash you out anytime they felt like it since your stats page isn't private.  The only way it would be feasible is if the pool made you register and you had to log into your account to see your stats, then a cash out button wouldn't be a problem, however most people don't want to register like that.  Mining in a pool is basically completely anonymous.

Apparently Telegram is used more for one person to send out information.  I could create a group for others to be able to talk as well but that would involve inviting everyone who wants to join, one at a time.  That would be a pain.

Like I said, i'm new to Telegram.  I'll see what I can do to fix it.

I'm new to telegram, but I want it to be an open group for others to talk.  Although I am very important and all, I think everyone should be able to talk.  

Could someone help test and see if it's set correctly?

Stats only show once you have mined a share.  It's worth a try, will take just a couple minutes to install and run Claymore and see.  What hash rate does ethminer show you?

If it doesn't work with the -G than it's not using your GPU to mine which will give you such an extreme low hash rate it is a waste of time.  Try switching to claymore, it's a better program, more stable, and usually faster hash rates.  The command line is on our home page for it.

You left out the -G argument, and watch the window, it should say your hash rate and tell you when you find shares.

That is odd, what miner are you using and what command line to start it?

What is your wallet address?  Your stats should be available within a minute or two of mining.

It's nice to see our hash rate over 3GH, means we will find blocks more often but still low enough that the luck factor will help keep payouts higher.  Even if we get to 12GH, that would mean a block a day and still would get better payouts than the big pools, most of the time.

Of course everyone is worried about the massive drop in ETH value, but that shouldn't scare people, just hang onto what you mine for now.  After August 1st and bitcoin has their soft-fork which should cause them to split into multiple chains, ETH should get a surge of new investors and prices could skyrocket.  If all those people with millions invested in bitcoin decide to switch to ETH it will raise the price dramatically.  My personal prediction is that ETH will hit record highs next month, but that's just my opinion based on what is happening.  So don't put much faith into the ETH calculators right now as the price has dropped dramatically this month.  Personally I'm going to try to get as much ETH as possible before the end of the month and hopefully reap the rewards in the following months.

Either that or bitcoin will crash and burn and bring down other currencies with it.  Either way it's going to be interesting.

People are also scared about investing in more GPU's and mining rigs because of the ROI with ethereum at it's current state, but you have to remember, if after the soft-fork in a couple weeks from now, if ETH doesn't recover (which it should pretty fast), we can always switch to another currency.  Mining is long term, not a quick buck.

Since we found our first block last night we've been hovering around the 2.5GH/s mark, which is about a block a week, a little less with good luck. 

I setup the Telegram chat, the link is at the top left of the website.

The variance number is more like a luck factor.  It goes up as we find shares vs difficulty.  If we mine a block with a low variance payouts are better because we didn't work as hard.  We found the last one at a 30% variance, which is good.  There is another similar pool that's variance has gone to over 115% and they haven't found a block, bad luck.  So they end up finding a lot of shares and no block.  Or something like that.  I'm still a bit confused on how to really explain it.

As for the eth-proxy, just use Claymore, it is more consistent and it's what most people use.  The command line for it is on the home page.

Now that the payment's went out with our first block and our hash rate is up, hopefully it will continue to rise so we can mine blocks a bit faster, 1 every couple days would be nice.  It took about an hour from the time the block was found until it was verified and all payments sent out.

We found our first block an hour ago and payments are going out.  Congrats to us!