Okay so I have just had a little run in with cryptsy and I am just putting it out there for you to decide!

Recently there was a statement on cryptsy saying

"Taking powercoin offline while I investigate a blockchain issue"

Then later this...

"It appears there was in fact a 51% attack on powercoin around the 15th/16th. The individual responsible came from a China IP address"

Now when I read this I wasn't overly concerened although I had a few PWC because 51% attacks have come and gone in the past with not too much upset. But a couple days alter I realized PWC was still not on the list and I got in the chatbox to ask admin about it.

To be honest bigjohn was pretty rude from the off, basically saying that I should know all about it and that they have spoken about it inside the chatbox! That is how they inform customers that their money is gone? In the chatbox? A chatbox that I do not use?

Eventually he did say that they will try to me clearer in the future and he also linked me to this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=239794.0

There were still no further announcements made regarding PWC and people were still in the chatbox asking where PWC was, so clearly I was not the only one who was a little miffed. These people got the same treatment as I... When surely a more detailed announcement would help, no?

Any way so I read that thread again and noticed on page 3 there was a very interesting turn of events! If you read comment #41 you will see a guy claiming to have looked into the matter and is saying there was NO attack! And then you will see NWO agreeing that there was indeed NO attack!

So I put that to big john and was banned for 1 hour for my trouble!

This stinks to high heaven! Are NWO and CRYPTSY in cahoots? Is it cryptsys mistake that they do not want to admit? I guess we can not have the answers to these as you will be banned for mentioning it! Dodgey... very dodgey!

So i have moved on from cryptsy anyway, and I just wanted to let everyone know too so you can make an informed decision as to where you trade...

If you love cryptsy fine, that is cool, just don't say you were not warned!

Edit: Off to cut my hedge now and will be back later on... Stay safe people

Sorry if this has been mentioned, I did read the whole thread but can't remember reading anything about it.... What if you have DGC already? Can you deposit them in the bank? How would that work? Would you still be guaranteed a price etc?

Seems like a good idea actually...

There is one guy in here implying (it seems to me) that baritus is doing something underhanded by always making a profit! God forbit he would want to make a profit! lol...

But it seems to me that this is mutually beneficial, the invester would always make a profit too. Well okay maybe it is not guaranteed for the investor but they have a very good chance...

If the price goes up = profit for invester

If the price goes down then sell back and buy back in at the cheaper rate, you could obviously buy back more coins than you originally had, then wait = profit

I would defo use this service and I think it would most certainly offer DGC some stability!

I can see many services like this springing up!

Look forward to the garnd opening, though if I invest will depend on the fee!

Man i wish I understood what the hell you guys are going on about! lol I would love to use something like this but I don't have the first clue how to go about it... It hurts my brain to even think about learning it! took me long enough to get cgminer to bloomin work! And still have the occasional issue with it now lol...

Good luck to you all though, after the asics have arrived alt coins are even more important to us gpu miners!

Hopefully one day someone will make a noob friendly version of this!

Wow, that is a pricey mars bar lol... I think when it was posted though the price was a fraction of what it is now, though it would of still worked out very expensive... crazy stuff

So they are gone forever then? Thanks for the info.

Yes but did he say why? lol... Oh and what actually is an orphan? Again I do remember reading about it but I do so much reading the lines can get blured... Are they actually coins? If so are they lost forever? I would like to know these kinds of things but purely out of curiosity so no stress if you don't know/can't find out...

Would be inetersting to see what baritus has to say about the future of dgc, like whether there are any upcoming developments... I suppose the dgc forum would be the place to ask that though, I have probably spammed your thread too much already! lol... Sorry about that, although at least you get a bump

I see, to be honest the only thing I know about dgc is that you can buy a mars bar with them! lol... Oh and a house, though i looked at them and I wouldn't touch either with a barge pole! lol

Baritus? Who is that?... I have read before that is the reason for orphans previously but not sure how true it is.

Holy orphan's batman... Does that happen because of how fast they are coming in?

Hmmm, well I am hard wired internet wise and not running anything else off it like youtube or such, just normal browsing... I didn't notice the 3-10 minute blocks and when I saw it, it was dipping up and down even though they were all 1-3 minute blocks... I was getting like 5.5 per hour but this went down to 2.5 at its lowest then hovered around 3ish for quite a while... It is still doing it now...

I will reboot my miner and see what that does... Thanks for looking at it anyway, I guess there must be an issue my end afterall...

Edit: rebooted and did an internet speed test... 39 ms ping 7 mb download but only 0.8 mb upload... Is there anything there that could be an issue? That upload looks rather pants...

Edit: Can't say I can see any improvement since the reboot, though I haven't seen that stratum error (though haven't really been looking)... Still I have banked 17 odd in like 4 hours so much much better than before... I'll keep an eye on it anyway... I do realise that there is some varience with these things and that payout will go up and down, it just seemed to stay down even though the blocks were coming in thick and fast... I would expect it to start going back up but it went down some more then up and down, but never back to the 5 odds level I was getting before.

Edit: Seems to be going back up again, might have just been the usual pool varience or due to the orphans maybe? Still a little concerned about the lost shares issue but I will look into that some more my end... Thanks again for looking into it for me...

Edit: Okay I am getting some more stratum disconnects and I am checking internet while that happens, other sites load fine and snappy as usual but yours does not, i am fairly sure it is not my end. Is there a way we can illiminate the problem? Or find out for sure which end it is?

Oh and the miner also reports that the stratum is not responding... Cheers bud

Hey fella, my average coins per hour seems to have dropped of a cliff over the last hour, do you know why that is? I did notice some notices in cgminer saying "lost 30 shares due to stratum disconnect" or something like that... Do you know what causes this? Cheers

Yeah that is fair enough mate cheers, though I have been with many other pools and didn't notice this issue, I didn't know if I had caught a trojan or what... But now I think there is defo something more sinister going on... I can't prove it but I know what I experienced and that is enough for me... I mean I sat and watched the blocks come in and no payments being recieved... What more do I need? lol

That is fair enough but I would have thought telling you guys I had been at it for 12 and 24 hours should of told you all you need to know lol... So what is your thoughts now knowing that I am now getting what I should be! What do we make of dgcpool.com and wemineltc???

This is quite obviously not true as I am with a pool now that is giving me what I should be getting.... I can understand some wiggle room like but not half of what I should be getting... For instance been on this pool what an hour now if that and already it is at 3.58 an hour average, It will still go up more too, oh and I have banked 3.5.. 3.5 x 12 = 42... And this is the first hour!!!! The hour that doesn't really give me what I should be getting! But the other pool after 12 hours only gave me 28... That is not right I don't care what anyone says, if you think it is maybe you are getting ripped too?

Edit: Up to 4.90 and hour average now... That equals 58 odd for a 12 hour period! But I got 28 for longer than that, do you still think that is right yeah? They weren't ripping me off nah? No problem at all right? Hey maybe they don't even know... But something is certainly not right and I knew it!

Yeah I know I was just so frustrated mate... Everywhere I turned I seemed to be getting ripped off... Didn't know if I had a trojan or what... Yours was the first thread I found after googling the other pool so came in here... Glad I did now anyway cos finally found one that gives me what I should get...

Yeah obviously I won't be using them again... At least yuou don't think I am a crazy noob :p Thanks

I mean I suppose it could be down to servers and whatnot but with wemineltc they have various servers and I was using the one for the eu so shouldn't have been a problem... i don't know man, but anyway this new one seems okay so far, fingers crossed...

Yeah like I said I will give it a day mate... But I can already see a MASSIVE improvement! Don't even need you to check or to wait an hour... This is what I should be getting... It is already saying 1.92 an hour and I have banked like 1.6ish... I knew something was wrong... It must be those pools mate, what else can it be?

Edit: and I know that the payouts are still increasing... Come on, 28 for over 12 hours is not right mate, not by a long way...

With the new pool I just joined I am already up to 1dgc an hour average, I have only been on it for like 20 mins! There is still more to go on it but the point is pplns does not take that long to kick in when it is a big pool! I didn't just mine for 2 mins then leave you know... Once was 24 hours (wemineltc) and the over 12 hours for dgcpool.com... Both pools are big enough to have pplns kick in within a couple hours!

Edit: Just check after posting this and now it is saying 1.67 an hour! Do you see??? I already have 1.15dgc banked after only like half an hour! and that is at the start!!! See, I can tell already that THIS pool is not going to be a problem!

Edit2: Right after my edit it is 1.82 an hour and 1.50 banked... I am not some crazy noob that doesn't know what is going on! lmao

Edit: 2.29 an hour and 1.92 banked...

LMAO... Honestly guys I am not thick, I know how all that works, pplns is not a problem, been with many pools that do it and I can tell the difference... I know when something is not right... Even with the blocks that were being found... Say on wemineltc there were a lot of 42 mins and 52 mins when the average should be 15 mins, that is all find but there never seemed to be a good run, ever... Over a whole 24 hour period...