I see that the website is down, but I also only have 1 withdrawal since I last checked... are the auto withdrawals delayed till the pool front end is up also, or  is it my workers???

Hey guys, I just read something which you may have already seen, but I bring it up because of the time I have dedicated to this coin and wanting it to survive.

This is the forum post link: http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,2178.0.html
It contains a link within:  http://maxminer.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/ftc_51attack.pdf
that demonstrates how the FTC 51% attack occurred.

What jumped out at me is something I have been watching and bringing up a lot about certain orphaned CGB blocks, that are accepted 10 - 15 minutes after the same block was orphaned (Thank God none have been successful).

If you view page 2 of the demonstration link, you will see a note on the demonstration that says "NOTICE THE TIME WARP". The block time jumps backwards. I have noticed this with a lot of the orphans while mining on multipool which is where my miners are.

So, I just wanted to put this out there for the developers who may not have seen this, in order to try and avoid this here!!! Learning from the past and other's misfortunes can help us to succeed!!!

If I understand, from what I have gathered, the addnodes will not really do much until the checkpoint sever is online. It is just PoS growing pains. You'll notice, when there 10 PoS block in a row is usually when you see a long row of orphans, or the reverse, going from that 10 block PoS row back to PoW blocks.

flound, I have been watching something that doesn't make sense. My account shows 7.7702 unconfirmed CGB. My hash rate says I am earning about 1.216 CGB per hour, so that would be about 6 1/2 hours for that much. Why is it showing so much unconfirmed?

Yeah, I was the one that brought that option up the other day, but all it really does is make it so that if someone get into your PC they have to send your coins to themselves rather than being able to dumpprivkey and import in their wallet.

I just tried vanitygen with -X 11 and 5cgb as a prefix and I was able to importprivkey but it shows a totally different address than Vanitygen gave me, with private key.

While looking through the code, I have come upon
So, it makes me realize that it is probably going to be more difficult that at first thought. So, my best suggestion, rebuild with a fresh source and then mess with importprivkey. At first I was thinking all your wallet commands were locked, but it should only be locking importprivkey and dumpprivkey
The option is there to keep your wallet secure in case your PC gets hacked, but still open for minting.

OK, I hadn't thought about that when I responded. That was the reason when I was sharing this option for PoS coins with mercSuey the other day, that I was telling him that it would need to be added as a command. Right now, there is no way to release the wallet. Since it is built into the cryptogenicbulliond daemon, you will need a way to release it. I am going to add it to the code for you, and mercSuey and elambert can add it if they chose.

Since it is set as a constant when built, for now you would have to rebuild and launch CGB with a backup wallet, and do it without changing line 86 this time... for now. Please repost whether you have a backup or not or if you have coins in the wallet. If you have coins and no backup, I will get it worked out for you as soon as possible. If not, I can take it a bit slower.

You must have got my post about that the other day about this option and built cryptogenicbulliond with line 86 of src/wallet.cpp set as:

instead of:
so your wallet is unlocked for minting only. You need to do:
in order to unlock your wallet fully for 120 seconds, and then import the private key.
Also, I found it is always a good idea to use a label with every address, otherwise you can lose your default address, because it will replace the default "" address.

PoS growing pains. Great developers on CGB, will work through it all!!! Also, every pool (I notified flound at multipool but haven't got a reply yet) should update to only the official addnodes (above) and also delete peers.dat and then restart.

My apologies to those looking for a reply, including betcoindice.tm, I slept for a couple days after not feeling well. But, my transaction did go through before the change of day, per BitcoinTimestamp. I did win, then lost it all at satoshidice later. LOL!!!

I do see the site is now showing bets live again and there is now an actual secret.keys file for verification of previous days bets, which I mentioned to them in an email. This is good, however I am still pretty sure, due to the low number of bets actually going through the betting addresses on the day of my incident that most of the bets are actually false, and they are automated in order to use blockchain.info live transactions on the homepage as a marketing strategy.

Also, I just noticed while checking the CGB topic, that the official addnodes have been updated, so while down, before restart delete any addnodes and add only these:

addnode=70.98.114.237
addnode=72.78.100.7
addnode=192.81.209.17
addnode=192.241.222.16
addnode=88.198.184.231
addnode=109.169.220.58
addnode=80.255.6.123
addnode=66.58.170.165
addnode=37.187.9.53

flound1129, I believe that CGB is battling another Fork. I see 20 out of 30 blocks showing on stats page are orphans. Also, I am seeing the same problem as before... example block 136,197 orphaned at 3:50 and accepted at 4:04, block 136,202 orphaned at 3:55 and accepted at 4:07, 136,205 orphaned at 3:55 and accepted at 4:08, block 136,206 orphaned at 4:00 and accepted at 4:11... and so on. Need to stop, delete peers.dat and restart. Also, I know that after the last fork issue we dealt with mercsuey updated the source https://github.com/cryptogenicbonds/CGB.git which he updated the checkpoints, so if you haven't updated yours, you may want to do so, in order to avoid the orphans bringing down the pool's CGB mining efficiency rate.

UPDATE... email from betcoin no transaction yet, but will update.
EMAIL:
We're extremely sorry for your frustrating experience, we had experienced a massive double-spend attack on the Dice game, which led to an automatic lockdown of some parts of the system, and the transactions being processed at a slower pace, however the bet results will remain the same due to the provably fair nature of the game. We always strive to ensure the safety of the funds of legitimate players, while keeping the malicious ones out. Our apologies for the delay - we understand that all of your transactions will be processed within the next few hours. Our system is currently rescanning the bitcoin transactions to ensure that our players don't lose bitcoins to malicious attackers who mimic their transactions. We anticipate this process to be finalized within hours. Once the invalid transactions are completely filtered out - the payouts will resume at the usual speed. A more robust hardware solution for filtering out such transactions will be implemented on Monday. In the meanwhile - you can continue playing, as the results will not change regardless of the payout speed, if you wish to to play something more engaging and interactive where you see the results immediately - please try out the BetCoin™ Circle, it's actually my personal favorite. In the meanwhile please rest assured that your Bitcoins are as safe with us as they would be with a Swiss bank. We keep 25,000 BTC per each of our existing game projects, namely www.betcoincircle.com, www.betcoindice.com,  www.betcoin.tm . We're about to launch a brand-new million dollar-grade lottery project shortly, and you - as our valued customer - will receive a significant amount of tickets from us for free. Please write back when you see the game go live, and I will personally take care of you.

Kind regards,

Peter Nolan
PR Director
www.betcoin.tm

More great news, as I research this SCAM even more... on their verification page, the hashes.keys and everything appears to be just like SatoshiDice.com however when I click on the secret.keys which should show the secret keys for previous days here: http://betcoindice.tm/dice/secret.keys
There is no page or file with secret keys, it is a zero byte file.... yup EMPTY!!!

So it is looking more and more like myself and anyone else who has sent anything there in the past 10 or 12 hours is scammed and because they don't have secret keys posted they could have been scamming people everyday running a totally unfair system claiming that it is just a SatoshiDice.com clone, basically, because they posted the exact verification info... without adding the secret.keys after the days end though.

I have also been checking all of the betcoinddice.tm betting addresses and I see since around 3AM that there are only bets going in... and nothing coming out:

https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet64kV7WuCNrmytagBEoixE8Kd5vMmnP
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet52kCyiritFn6rvmZKRrUSSpnY7HNWo
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet56kWEpCq8ugG9tqAkLNXqaAQ4eUALp
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet5o5o23jaRB9kKNxqZ5KeBqoSm5Fh56
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet48k9LzVSdJTWjabFbTr4x8foPzgDRw
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet32kBtZzXViMs1PQHninHs4LADhCwtB
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet24kC9BqJeCbc27hkahoAsSVHLaYfLr
https://blockchain.info/address/1Bet16kGTPwHKEbvNK4uQKtYC61Q4MHBst


and you can find the rest... but I also noticed, when I just viewed each of those addresses, compared to when I would watch the bets on the website, there are way less bets actually placed than is shown.

I sent 0.19 BTC today to the under (73%) 48000 betcoindice address... and I never received anything back. I have played many times, and I usually watch the bets on the website as I play them. Today, I went to the website to watch for immediate verification, I click on Unconfirmed Bets and Recent Bets, and the screen stays on the betting addresses. No watching. No verification. So, I click advanced where you can enter your transaction hash, and it says transaction not found. You can see for yourselves...
https://blockchain.info/tx/5df50b15ba9069c474106c963f583fe418b77fb6a26c859d2266f6f3e5e533b3

That is the payment sent. It has long since confirmed. Enter the hash into betcoindice.tm in the Advanced popup to verify bets. It says:
404: Transaction Not Found

But we can all see it was sent. It is not a lot to some people, but to me it is.

Also, I believe that since no one else has reported this issue... of not being paid and the website doesn't allow you to watch your bets, yet I keep seeing bets going through the blockchain for betcoindice.tm back to back.... that the claims I have read about recently, regarding false bets being place by betcoindice.tm themselves with an auto script to attract users... is true. If all of these bets I see for betcoindice.tm going through the blockchain since my bet went through, were actual people not getting paid, they would be on here raving and raging!!! But the bets are mostly false to attract people and now they aren't even paying.

I sent an email to them so we will see if they respond and what they do.

UPDATE:
I wanted to be sure that I recorded and verified everything, in case of them trying to just say oh you lost, and here is your 0.0005 btc a bit late. So I download BitcoinTimestamp-1.0.1.jar from GitHub and I run it with my transaction number,

java -jar BitcoinTimestamp-1.0.1.jar decode 5df50b15ba9069c474106c963f583fe418b77fb6a26c859d2266f6f3e5e533b3

and it says:

Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL:
http://blockexplorer.com/rawtx/5df50b15ba9069c474106c963f583fe418b77fb6a26c859d2266f6f3e5e533b3

So I go to that exact same URL in my browser and I get a CloudFlare error saying that my Browser has been blocked from this site for some weird code #. It did this a few times. I was able to see the same page, with tx instead of rawtx...
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/5df50b15ba9069c474106c963f583fe418b77fb6a26c859d2266f6f3e5e533b3

As I was typing this I wanted to copy the exact CloudFlare error but it is now allowing me to visit that page, the rawtx.
So I am assuming (HOPING) that because BlockExplorer.com uses CloudFlare, plus BitcoinTimestamp uses the rawtx from that site, and so many gambling sites use BitcoinTimestamp that the problem was CloudFlare blocking thinking it was a DDoS attempt... hopefully they just fixed it since I can now visit it and I will get my BTC. I will keep everyone who cares updated, as I have played here before and didn't have a problem. But... I just checked the verification on betcoindice.tm and they still show 404: transaction not found. We'll see. I am just pissed because it takes me a while to get that much BTC. A few days.

...plus I am sure the same stats on the my_stats.php I just don't check that as often.

Yeah, everything is running fine mining, earning, getting withdrawals, and blocks are updating now, but these stats are not updating still:
Account hash rates and shares (top left),
Worker hash rates (accountdetails page),
and miner hash rates and miner shares (stats.php).

The pool block stats are back working, but my new workers aren't showing and nobody's hash rates and shares are changing in the stats. All workers on the stats page are stuck in place.