My main account was pretty lucky, I think I reached Legendary right near 800 activity if I remember right. theymos also posted a list of the luckiest and unluckiest Legendary users if you want to take a peak at that. Looks like the activity rank is truly random, I don't think there's any sort of weighting towards higher numbers when determining what activity a user needs to become Legendary.

What kind of PSU are you using? I find that with lower quality PSU's you get higher HW error rates (voltages might not be exact, in my experience that's led to some problems with miners).

I'm running an S7 right now and its HW error rate is around 0.0004% after 3 days of running steady.

I've been on the site for a couple of years and can't remember this happening before, so no this doesn't happen very often.

That's a fair point, but I think I'd rather play the market here on Bitcointalk for a couple weeks than sell something worth > $1000 on eBay the day it's posted and risk being scammed.

I've heard similar stories like that before. IIRC OgNasty was scammed similarly when selling a few miners on eBay. They were worth less than $1600 but he was still out of the money and the miners.

I think the real bottom line is to not sell on eBay period.. I've heard way too many stories about legit sellers being ripped off by fraudulent buyers for my liking.

He only left you a neutral rating, not a negative rating. So that doesn't affect how your profile shows up in posts and such, it's only visible if a user navigates directly to your trust page. If things like a neutral rating on your profile is causing you to harm yourself, you should probably think about leaving this website.

I'm using a G2 1300W as well to power my S7. It's been running for a few weeks now with no major issues. However the one problem I've been having with my setup is that whenever I have a power failure, the PSU won't boot up again automatically when power comes back online. If I want to start up my miner again, I have to pull out the paper clip jumper and pop it back in again. So that's something to keep in mind if you live somewhere like me where power failures aren't uncommon. Other than that I'm really pleased with the G2 1300W.

I've had pretty much the same thing happen to me. I left a negative trust on a similar impostor (probably the same guy operating all these impostor accounts) using my main account and received the following PM shortly after:


Nothing ever came from it though, so I wouldn't worry about it. Just report the message and it'll be dealt with it.

You shouldn't have to change the default login. If the miner isn't open to the internet then you shouldn't have to worry about anyone hijacking it over your local network (unless someone on your local network has malicious intents).

If the loan isn't paid back after the 24th then I'd say do what you want with the account. However, it will be very difficult to get anything for the account if you don't have a signed message to prove ownership. Don't expect to get more than 0.04 BTC for a Senior account with no signed message, especially after all the drama going on with the account (someone saying it's his account - if he can provide a signed message from the account he'll get the account back, even if you've sold it to someone already).

What would I do? Nothing until the 25th. If the loan isn't paid back by then, I'd probably try listing it for sale, making it known that a signed message doesn't come with the account. You'll probably be taking a loss, but it's a learning experience I guess.

Don't want to thread hijack but it looks like this guy is using a possibly hacked account. No posts since July 31st, 2014. Plus, it looks like he's strategically playing the security log system. If you search for his name in the seclog, you'll see he changed his password on Nov. 16th, meaning that by posting today the password changed warning on his trust page is gone.

I'm willing to change my stance on this guy if he can provide a signed message (not sure what the signature above is from), but looks like a hacked account to me. Good try though.

To port forward you'd probably need access to a router. I'm guessing the OP would have set this up beforehand, which was why the miner was exposed to the internet.

I also came across this Reddit thread earlier today. It sounds pretty much identical to the problems the OP is having, and after ensuring that all ports on his network were closed, the guy who posted that thread didn't have his miner hacked again.

To my understanding the OP port forwarded his miner so that he could access it and check on it from anywhere. All it would take for someone to hijack the miner would be to log in with the default credentials ( root/root ) and then they could change anything they want.

The OP wasn't able to login to his miner since the default login would have been changed by the person who hijacked it. I don't think it's a software bug, if there was a bug like that in the firmware I suspect we would have heard about it already, and have others complaining about similar issues, but I think the fact that the OP mentioned that it was port forwarded and using the default logins is a dead giveaway that it was hijacked and the login details were changed.

When I set mine up, I followed this tutorial. Didn't have any issues when I followed this tutorial a few months ago.

I've heard of people having their wallets stolen while having Teamviewer available on their machine, not sure I'd trust using it with my equipment ( or at least not with the default configuration - short username/password).

Like I mentioned a few pages ago in this thread, a home VPN is so easy to set up with a Raspberry Pi, and most modern routers even offer the feature to enable a home VPN. Much safer than just port forwarding and relying on your username/password being secure to avoid hacking, at least with key-based VPN authentication. Plus, if you have multiple miners to monitor you just navigate to their IP addresses, rather than trying to set up different ports so you can access each miner over the internet.

If he has a RPi he could also set up a home VPN and just connect to that to navigate to the miner's interface. Might be a little safer than configuring all the miners to be directly accessible over the Internet.

Sorry guys, didn't realize that.

Sounds like the campaign is currently full.

It's just luck. I've been mining on Slush's pool for over 2 years now and you get some good days and some bad days but in the end it all evens out. Right now the 30 day pool luck percentage is 92% which is a little lower than we'd like to see but I really don't think it's a misconfiguration. It sounds like slush knows what he's doing and has for over 5 years now with the pool.

If you put the Bitmixer signature in and input your UID in the signature bot you should be automatically enrolled. I don't think Bitmixer has a limited number of slots so you should be fine to join.

Figured out what the issue was. I was pressing the enter button on the form instead of actually clicking on the "Submit" button when I tried to view my stats. Apparently that just reloads the page and does nothing so the Submit button needs to be clicked on.