Bitminter had some awesome luck lately.
Can I pay you to NOT mine in my pool?
LOL! Well played, Doc! |
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Still sending them my junk-mines (couple usb sticks, a butterfly 30 and gpu) so pool is alive (20hrs active mining) but the webserver is still under attack so no clue if it's accounting for the work or not. Keeping my good miner on my other pool until I can get an update and see stats.
I know it's not their fault and applaud their decision not to pay the ransom so will be back full-speed with them when its resolved. I see they stepped up the ddos protection level today, and in time the putzes will move on if they aren't getting paid.
Its called a ransom malware virus the FBI Originally wrote it to so called "White-collar crime!" it encrypts your hard drive and all your files then you can not access them without undoing the encryption. The only way to do that I to get the key used to encrypt it which is stored on the FBI Server. Even If you remove the ransom ware virus your files or whole hard drive is encrypted and cant be undone only restore from a backup which it can store itself on there to and also encrypt it. Now hackers use the same thing to scam money but they always ask for bitcoin because its not traceable at least that's what they think! Just Google "Ransom ware virus" you will see a lot of info on it. It goes back in years! And now there at it again with smarter methods that do the same thing! Yikes. Yes, such a ransom-ware attack certainly exists; however, that is not what is being utilized here. In this case, a user, or group of users, are flooding Bitmain's servers with traffic, effectively blocking out everyone else. That's the denial of service. The distributed part means it's coming from a whole host of IP addresses, making stopping it very difficult. Believe me, if it were just one guy on one machine, Bitmain or their upstream ISP could simply block traffic from that one address and the problem would be solved. These attacks typically come from many machines that the hacker controls, usually by means of a hidden trojan that the machine's owner is likely unaware is even on the box. And no, the original ransom-ware attacks were most certainly not perpetrated by the FBI against white collar criminals. Geez, take off the tinfoil hat and spend a little time in the sun  . |
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Well, p2pool had a good week, and payouts from both NastyPoP and NastyP2P reflected that, each beating expectations. NastyP2P managed to edge out NastyPoP, but the difference between the two is only 0.00770503BTC.
3/6 - 3/13
NastyPoP - 0.05138458BTC
NastyP2P - 0.05908961BTC
Expected - 0.0328BTC
Luck - 131.5%
OP updated.
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You guys can thank me for the 1.06% block. I just bought 4 SP20Es for 1.06 BTC each, it has to be related. LOL   And in other completely related news, the expected earnings of 1TH/s per day is... 0.0106 BTC... coincidence? I think NOT! |
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Get in there! Feels good to get one at 1.08% diff!
Nice! Makes the stats table look a lot better It's not showing up on rewards page though. Probably just hasn't been updated yet... the block is staying here, though... And, as I'm writing this post, the rewards page is properly updated. |
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Get in there! Feels good to get one at 1.08% diff!
Wow... only half a million shares and block. Nice |
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That only shows if they pay you. How do You know yourself you've hit a pool? I think you might have your terminology a bit mixed up . Your mining software will typically tell you the value of your best share. If that value is greater than the current network difficulty, then you've found a block and you'll get the coins. If you're running the Bitcoin Core locally, it will display a message on a transaction. As was mentioned, blockchain explorer will show you activity for any wallet/transaction/etc you want to view. Basically, if you're found a block solo mining you're going to see an extra ~25 BTC in your wallet. If you've found a block while mining on a "regular" pool, unless the pool specifically pays you a bonus for doing so, it doesn't matter that you found the block or not except for knowing that it was one of your miners that did. |
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Decrease in hashrate around 2000TH. somebody left the pool? previously it was 7000th, later 4000TH+ now 2000TH+  Total hash rate of the pool is completely irrelevant... you are solo mining. The only hash rate that matters is your own. |
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Hardly needs to be a hacker either - anyone can do it with the right software. Probably a few disgruntled customers unhappy with their double price hike......  LOL! And people are still buying them... Market sets the price, if they keep up on orders they'll keep raising it until enough say it's unfair then it drops back down. Oh, I certainly understand... it just amazes me that people continue to purchase. |
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Hardly needs to be a hacker either - anyone can do it with the right software. Probably a few disgruntled customers unhappy with their double price hike...... LOL! And people are still buying them... |
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No idea why hackers even bother with these DDOS attacks since the website is usually seperate from the stratum server.
You don't think they can attack any port besides 80? Flood port 3333 with crap traffic and miners can't connect... DDoS. |
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That piece is already included in the box with the EVGA PSUs... |
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I don't think the EVGA G2 1000 has that PSU start up piece. All I'm trying to avoid is having to hook up that monster power cable. I grabbed a few of these, which I'll then insert the pins myself and jumper it. I have the tools to make them. This way I won't need to bother plugging in that heavy/long power cable.  According to EVGA's "what's in the box" section in the manual for the 1000 G2: (1) EVGA Power Supply (1) EVGA Manual (4) Mounting Screws (1) EVGA PSU Tester (24-pin)(1) EVGA Cable Bag (1) 24-pin ATX Cable (2) 4+4 pin EPS12V CPU Cables (4) 6+2 pin PCI-E VGA Cables (2) 6+2 pin + 6 pin PCI-E VGA Cables (2) 3 SATA cables (2) 2 SATA cables (1) 3 Molex cable (1) 2 Molex cable + 1 Floppy connector (1) Power Cord cable The 1300s I have indeed had that part in the box, and is why I stated that I was quite sure the 1000 G2 did as well. Anyway, there are plenty of people that make the jumpers, or as you've seen you can make your own with virtually no effort. Of course you can always go the paperclip route, too EDIT: Ohh... you don't even want the 24-pin ATX cable attached at all, you just want to jumper directly on the PSU. Huh... you know, I didn't even attempt to plug the PSU tester directly into the PSU, I just plugged the ATX cable into the PSU and the PSU tester into the ATX cable. Now I'm going to have to see if I could have just gotten away with plugging the tester into the PSU itself, and if it works I'm going to feel a bit silly for having that giant cable plugged in for no reason at all for the past 9 months |
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Are these attacks all orchestrated by other Bitmining pools due to competition?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?
It's just some jackass - or group of jackasses - who happen to have enough firepower to successfully execute DDoS attacks. He/they are currently targeting BTC pools and demanding ransoms. |
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And the attack is on ..... yes, we are under attack at this moment. Connections to antpool from external site may experience a dead pool status. All miners on hashnest or hosted miners are hashing normal in our internal network.
Yep, I just got an email from batman about attack Who's behind it? The Joker? The Riddler? The world may never know! Sorry... couldn't help myself |
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Most any DSL is crap...
My options are Verizon DSL (3d/1u) / Dial-up / Satellite (12d/3u). I'm not even sure the Satellite is doable, I'm on the north side of a mountain. Plus Satellite has data caps (10-25 gb/month) and is expensive. I just received an email from Bitmain that they are being threaten with extortion now on the website and the pool.
Yeah, I just got that too. Satellite is absolute crap for mining... you're killed by the latency. |
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Mining.bitcoin.cz any good?
There are a bunch of great pool ops out there that are responsive and supportive. Eleuthria, Kano, DrHaribo, ck, etc. Slush runs his support from a dedicated site and IRC channel. BAN uses IRC and email. It all really depends on what you want. I'm not a fan of the ant pool... others are. Everybody's got an opinion on what's the best and chances are good they're all different . |
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That article doesn't do a very good job explaining the upgrade kit. It states that the upgraded S2 will be able to hash at the same speed and power consumption as the S5.... which would mean the upgrade kit would offer a whole 150GH/s over the S2. Also, the S2 has slots for 10 boards - which are originally filled with what are essentially underclocked S1 boards. If the article is to be believed, then what are the other 8 slots going to be used for, if anything? I'll wait until something official from Bitmain actually appears instead of treating the linked article as any kind of source of truth, because that article smacks of just as much speculation as this thread . |
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That guy was posting in other threads that if you wanted your pool's luck to go to crap, just invite him to mine there. I think that post is nothing more than a poorly worded way to express his frustration at bad pool luck... I'm very sure that eleuthria's pool will solve at least one block between now and April  |
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347038 looks to be staying here...
Hey! I was soo close!! (Lol I'm right on top of your name on the stats list). Also, what is the <Workers> -> <Shifts> for? What does it show? Yeah... I've had my 6 S3s pointed here for a while (I've still got 2 on p2pool). If I had the 8 of them here, I'd be a bit higher up the list . As far as shifts, that shows you how you've been doing for each of the shifts. We keep talking about PPLNS being about the last N shares - which it is - but Kano (and BTC Guild, and GHash and others) also use the concept of shifts as well. In a nutshell, they're used to simplify the amount of data crunching necessary. I'll let Kano explain in more detail about how the shifts are utilized to determine payouts here. |
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