I hope you understand that by doing that after understanding that it is a ponzi you become part of the problem and complicit with the scam. Put the shovel away, you're digging yourself an even bigger hole to fall into.

which is what I said earlier about them

There is a valid case for this being a legitimate business model. I just find it rather far fetched given the numerous other factors brought up in this thread. You might want to go back and read the thread if you are curious.

What I meant was that there would be logs on the server indicating https traffic. In the case of bitcoind rpc traffic there is not. You wouldn't have direct evidence that https was compromised but you would have more than with bitcoind.

One interesting thing to consider is that everyone selling you cloud mining or hardware expects that it is a better investment for them to have your money than the hashing for themselves. So they may be selling you on the "big returns" when in fact they believe just the opposite.

Right. The fix for bitcoind would harden them from an internal attacker, but they'd already be compromised at that point.

Now the SSL on the website is a different story, but that's also trivial to fix, and logging there would likely show some patterns of attack.

This whole thing is serious, but there are also people looking to make some cash on the fear mongering.

Google DNS doesn't know where it is. OpenDNS has about half their servers thinking it doesn't exist and the other half think it is at the IP I referenced earlier, which is the same one you listed there.

It may be part of a larger DNS problem, but I haven't noticed any other sites experiencing this, not that I am visiting a lot of different sites right now.

It is unlikely the SSL issue caused their DNS to fail, their MX entry to be deleted, etc.

I patched a number of Linux machines today. The outage was no slower than bouncing services to take advantage of the new libraries.

I wouldn't worry any more (yet) than we already are. It could be easily explained as a website move that just wasn't planned very well. Although, lack of planning could be seen by some as a pattern.

You have to consider the relative strength of the dollar you list as well. Few people see a future that doesn't involve a significant amount of inflation.

Looks like their DNS is messed up.

http://whois.domaintools.com/blackarrowsoftware.com

If you go to http://cachecheck.opendns.com/ it lists some IP addresses for them, one of which leads to their old store closed page. http://91.205.173.3/store/

English is obviously not your native language. You do have referral advertisements and links on your site. Added to my ignore list, don't bother to respond to me, but feel free to continue the debate with yourself and others if you like.

Religion/faith/wishful thinking. He's probably making decisions based on this belief, so to admit he might be wrong would be to acknowledge that he doesn't know everything. Which he obviously does.

Man I'm just tired of ignorance today..

I looked at your site before responding. It is a review site. It is the job of a review site to fully explore each product and then provide a recommendation, which you do. That's bias. You are much harsher about CEX than PBmining and I think you are completely wrong about that. With CEX you can get in and change your mind in a day and get back out, its been time tested, and it is adding features you complain about. With PBmining there is no getting out of it. It is my opinion that your review scores (bias) are based on the expected referral income you could get (you have no referral/advertising link on CEX) rather than on the respective qualities of each. Any investment where you openly admit that there is the possibility they will walk away with your money is a high risk investment and should be rated as such.

My opinion. Not telling you how to run your site though. You can do and say whatever you like, obviously.

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Naw, they are the [self-proclaimed] "#1 CLOUD MINING REVIEW SITE" out there. They wouldn't lead you down the wrong path for a referral!

legit, man, totally legit
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Heh. Getting this here:

504 Host www.blackarrowsoftware.com lookup failed: Permanent name server failure

The following error occurred while trying to access http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/:

504 Host www.blackarrowsoftware.com lookup failed: Permanent name server failure

It's not just as simple as that. Many people are speculating that BTC will increase in value as it continues to become more popular. For .893 BTC they can get a device that should get 10% "interest" in a several months and still have intrinsic value to them or someone else (to sell). They DO NOT think in fiat. They don't have to sell BTC to pay their electric bill, nor would they, because they believe it will turn into the million dollar pizza deal again at some point. Why did you pay BTC for electricity when you could buy a car with that much BTC today (5-10 years later, for example)? At any rate, that 10% "interest" on a BTC investment even before a hardware resale is better than putting cash or even BTC in a bank at 0.4% or 0% interest, which is below the point of inflation.

By making this statement, BA demonstrates that they don't understand the mindset of speculators, which includes their customers. It doesn't matter if you or I agree with this 100% or not. The fact remains that many people mining believe it, and mining won't stop unless and until the value of Bitcoin drops back to near nothing with no hopes of ever recovering.

What a wonderful idea. Perfect companion to my BFL mugs that I never use!

I think the only thing left that this pool needs to sell itself is to get out of this luck funk.

EclipseMC does PPS at 5%. From what I can tell the pools that have lower percentages are doing some kind of hybrid where they don't intend to actually pay out PPS until they solve a block, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Where would the coin come from for the referral? The pool is already running a deficit.

It is exciting to see changes on this pool. I personally think that DGM is the most fair payment method, and the option to merge mine coins or not should be in the hands of the miner as it is here, not the pool operator to say whether or not a coin has value. I'm looking forward to seeing the increase in interest that this pool deserves.