Daily rewards seem to be way below pre-attack levels. Probably lots of people hoping to mine those high value attack blocks. Give it a month or 2 to settle down. BTW, I'd recommend a pool if you are much under 500Kh. Average earnings should be the same solo or in pool, but will be very sporadic with  low hash.

I think it's safe to assume so. ATM, Joe is just trying to  hold things together while the fix gets done.

Actually, they are probably either botnets or some with access to a large number of computers, like at a hosting company or large university. No cost to recoup.

But how many of those 40,000 XMG were deposited after the split? I'm guessing very few.

Never thought of that, thanks.

If it's showing hash instead of connect error, it's working. Look at my example.
Bad part is wallet shows nothing unless you get a block. I've been VNCing into all 9 machines to make sure they're still hashing, but I'm going to build a remotely accessible power meter to save me from that. If 1 machine stops mining, drop in power consumption is quite noticeable.

Set up magi.conf as follows:

# You must set rpcuser and rpcpassword to secure the JSON-RPC api
rpcuser=*user*
rpcpassword=*pass*

# Listen for RPC connections on this TCP port:
rpcport=8232

# server=1 to accept JSON-RPC commands
server=1

# listen=1 to accept connections from outside
listen=0

# RPC connection from localhost allowed
# set this to your LAN address range to allow other local machines to connect. * means 0-255 IOW any machine on LAN
rpcallowip=192.168.0.*

# Add nodes to connect to specific peers
#connect=104.128.225.215

# Add nodes to connect to specific peers
addnode=104.128.225.215
addnode=45.35.251.73

# posii=1 to enable PoS staking; default = 0
posii=1

# Transaction under stake with a value greater than the threshold is being splitted
stakesplitthreshold=1000

# Transactions with values less than the threshold will combine into one
stakecombinethreshold=500


Launch your miner with:

C:\XMGpoolminerWin64\m-minerd.exe -a m7mhash -o http://192.168.0.141:8232 -u *user* -p *pass* --threads 12

this breaks down as follows:
"C:\XMGpoolminerWin64\m-minerd.exe"  *** adjust to path of miner
                                            
-a m7mhash *** for magi mining

-o http://192.168.0.141:8232 *** address and port of wallet server

*user* *** user from magi.conf  don't use any *

*pass* *** pass from magi.conf

--threads 12 *** number of threads you want, no more than 1 per core

Don't forget to open your firewall for incoming connections to your wallet.

No yay or boo when mining solo, what you'll see if all is well is this:

C:\XMGpoolminerWin64>C:\XMGpoolminerWin64\m-minerd.exe -a m7mhash -o http://192.168.0.141:8232 -u ***** -p ***** --threads 12
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 4 to cpu 4
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 5 to cpu 5
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 6 to cpu 6
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 7 to cpu 7
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 8 to cpu 8
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 9 to cpu 9
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 10 to cpu 10
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] 12 miner threads started, using 'm7mhash' algorithm.
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] Binding thread 11 to cpu 11
[2018-05-05 02:06:23] No payout address provided, switching to getwork
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 6: 262144 hashes, 9.29 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 9: 262144 hashes, 9.26 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 11: 262144 hashes, 9.25 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 8: 262144 hashes, 9.20 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 0: 262144 hashes, 9.20 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 4: 262144 hashes, 9.16 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 1: 262144 hashes, 9.10 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 7: 262144 hashes, 9.10 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:52] thread 3: 262144 hashes, 9.07 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:53] thread 2: 262144 hashes, 8.97 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:53] thread 10: 262144 hashes, 8.82 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:53] thread 5: 262144 hashes, 8.72 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:56] thread 2: 35872 hashes, 9.22 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 9: 46314 hashes, 9.35 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 6: 46457 hashes, 9.18 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 0: 45994 hashes, 9.27 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 11: 46261 hashes, 8.99 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 8: 45994 hashes, 9.23 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 4: 45778 hashes, 9.26 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 1: 45507 hashes, 9.21 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 7: 45497 hashes, 9.26 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 10: 35265 hashes, 8.72 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 3: 45349 hashes, 9.29 khash/s
[2018-05-05 02:06:57] thread 5: 34876 hashes, 9.29 khash/s

If you get message about connect error, make sure wallet is running, check wallet address & port, user & pass, etc.
Also, try running a miner on same machine as wallet by using 127.0.0.1:port , this shoulg get around firewall problems.
Wallet must be in sync for mining to work.

Something is very different this time. I'm showing the increased block reward, but not getting any orphans, and no blocks either. This is solo mining, like usual.

BTW, on the attack before this 1, my wallet was showing several times the orphans it usually gets during an attack. Either the attack is changing, or pools all going down is causing very low "legitimate" hashing power. I hope this doesn't kill the network.

More to the point, how would you make it only mineable in Linux? Can't do it.

Very large hashing power is (I think) a required part of his attack, but it's not the whole thing. He is exploiting a weakness in the code which is specific to Magi. I have no idea what that weakness is, but I suspect Joe does. Relax, it will be fixed.

POS only? That creates a different problem. People with large amount of Magi will be getting big rewards, those with very little will be basically getting nothing. That's hardly fair either, is it? Also remember that POS coins CAN be attacked.

I described what I'm running a few pages ago, search if you really want to know. But I've got 1Mh, or 1000Kh, whichever you wish to call it. 9 servers running m-minerd (unmodified) and all mining solo into 1 Magi wallet  v1.4.5.3 (64-bit) (also unmodified) running on a separate machine. All 10 of these are synced by ntpd to my own stratum 1 ntp server, which is synced to a GPSDO. No time manipulation or anything, everything is within 1ms of correct time. I point this last fact out as I've seen reference to a "time attack". I'm not trying any "voodoo" mining tricks, nor would I have a clue how to.

Last 2 days not so good, due to me trying my luck on minerclaim. ~10 yesterday, 0 today because they shut down. Probably won't get the 10 either, minerclaim wasn't great during previous attack. Switched back to solo. Keep in mind, not every day is great. Someday it's 0 or 1 or something, others maybe 15 or 40 or such, usually as 1 block, but the weekly average is good. And some days you hit lottery, 1 day it was over 160 Just keep mining, you can't win without playing.

He's not destroying the network, just exploiting a weakness for profit. All miners should be benefiting from his exploit, unless the pool they're in shuts down before it ends.

He has claimed he can destroy the network if he wanted to, be happy his motivation is profit. There are, after all, some people who destroy things just for the LOLs.

Give joe some time to fix things, the network, and the coin, will be stronger in the end.

Every minute he spends posting here is a moment not spent on development. Even worse, every distraction interrupts your train of thought, so even more time lost.

That coin is being developed nowhere, because it can't work. You could just run multiple miners in VMs, each with a different public IP to get around any limitations while still reaping  huge rewards. I actually like the concept, but it's hopeless.

1000Kh is 1000Kh, regardless of number of machines.

No, it's not just whales that win. If your'e mining in a pool, you get a percentage of the block rewards based on the percentage of hashing you have contributed. If a guy with 15Mh gets 10X the "normal" a guy with 15Kh also gets 10X. Granted, it's a tiny amount compared to the whale, but it's still a lot more than he would have got.

While we're on the subject of whales and pools, let me cover another area of stupidity I keep seeing. A whale entering your low hashrate pool does not destroy the rewards for the little guys, nor does he improve them. Block rewards are based on NETWORK hashrate, not POOL hashrate. A few "big guys" will mean the pool solves a lot more blocks, so rewards will be more regular. There will be many more coins coming into the pool, but you will get a smaller percentage, averaging out to about the same amount. IOW, instead of getting  10% of 100, you will get 1% of 1000. There will be more rewards per day, you'll get a smaller piece of each.

I don't think anyone has accused him of stealing coins directly from peoples wallets. But some do call him a thief. A thief takes property that belongs to someone else. He is not doing that. He has taken a flaw in the Magi client and basically used it to build himself a better miner. Maybe not 100% fair, but certainly not theft. I actually respect his effort. And I'll respect the developer's effort to patch the flaw.

That 23.5 is an average over 28 days, some days it's under 1, 1 day it was over 160! No tricks here, just solo mining at 1Mh. Software is XMGpoolminerWin64 (m-minerd.exe), hardware is 9 dumpster class servers with 2 6-core AMD Opteron 2431 CPUs (2.4 GHz) each. Total power is ~1.8KW.

4-8 XMG/day with 10 RPIs? That was a long time ago my friend.

You've been helped by the attacks. Before attacks started I was getting 1-2 coins/day with 1Mh. Vitalik is not taking coins from anybody's wallet, he is just grabbing lots of coins for himself, and we are all getting a lot more coins as well. Over the last 4 weeks, Iv'e averaged 23.5 coins/day Thank you very much, Vitalik_Pedik!

Lots of orphaned blocks the last few days, but staking is working fine here. I stake about 4 or 5 times a day with ~3500 XMG in my account. I have noticed the reward for staking is a bit lower the last few days.