Some kind of detail of what you're experiencing would be helpful.  It's been working perfectly since the SSL update for me on IE, Firefox, and Chrome.

Certificate has been updated.  It expired while I was away from home, and when I got home that night my connection was having too much packet loss to properly update it before going to bed.  All is well this morning though!  Worst case scenario, you may get warnings from any SSL-watching addons you have in your browser due to the certificate change.  General browser warnings should not appear anymore.

SSL Certificate has been updated.  Sorry this would not completed last night, my home connection was experiencing 35~40% packet loss last night which made it pretty much impossible to use my browser or SSH.

The SSL certificate for BTC Guild expired today.  I will have to issue a new SSL cert when I get home this evening.  Until then, if your browser states that the SSL connection is insecure, you can check the certificate yourself and see that is still valid, simply expired.

Additionally, if you use any kind of SSL certificate monitoring addons for your browser, you may see another warning tonight/tomorrow when the certificate is changed.

No, they didnt' have a prototype.  It was quite apparent they didn't know what the hell they were doing when they announced their first product.  They did not even realize that in a SHA256 brute forcer, each pass would flip approximately 50% of the bits.  Their numbers were _WAY_ off, to the point where the power supplies they had for their first chips couldn't supply enough power.  Then when they got that worked out, they realized their design would basically melt so their solution was to tack another fan under the board. To say they had a working prototype is like  saying you have a working car that's missing its engine.

Correction on Deepbit:  They pay for invalid blocks which affects Proportional.  It has no affect on PPS rates.  All PPS pools pay for invalid blocks (since an invalid block doesn't mean you submitted invalid shares).


Everything else seems accurate though!

You have to be joking.  There aren't words to describe how terrible Bitcoinica has been at "losing" money.  Quite frankly I don't see how anybody can believe this isn't an inside job/run with the money scheme anymore.

A few adjustments were made on mine2.btcguild.com to reduce load in the last 24 hours.  Things are looking very good on the new node.  Downtime only lasted a few seconds late last night.


A new pool daemon is being worked on currently to better handle increased loads.  The first version should be ready later this month, and will correct nTime Rolling support, along with optimizations to reduce the effects of inefficient miners on overall pool performance.  This is an intermediate fix though. 

After the new pool code is completed, a new version will be developed to support the new mining protocol that I've been working on with ArtForz.  Once a proof of concept is completed, we'll be sending information to miner software developers to work on getting support added to clients.  This is a very exciting development that offers "infinite" scaling.  The data going from the pool to the client will be the same whether you mine at 1 Kh/s or 100 Th/s.  The only increase will be in the data you send to the pool (share submissions).  Since BTC Guild is PPS, even that can be limited by giving miners the option to change their share difficulty, which the new pool and protocol will support.

We don't know if it wasn't a problem with MtGox.  We just know if it was, they weren't crippled by it.

Definitely agree with this.  Until recently, whenever 'taint' was discussed, it was in relation to how many coins in a users wallet have originated from a known theft.

Updated prices.  Roughly $3.25 per pack (~$4.50 retail) for small orders, and $2.70 per pack for larger orders.  That's cheaper than buying the booster boxes!  Still free shipping if more than 5 packs are ordered.

I hope everything is "okay" .

The hot wallet wasn't as bad as I figured it would be (125 MB).

Completed the switch of hot wallets early.  Payouts were unavailable for about 3 minutes while unloading the old wallet and loading the new wallet.  Hopefully this shouldn't be required more than every month or two.

The pool wallet has finally gotten fragmented to the point that a payout times out about once per day.  Payouts still get processed, but the frontend isn't given a txid and the user ends up not seeing the payout on their history until a cleanup is run manually.

Payouts will be disabled from 3:30 PM (PDT) until 3:50 PM (PDT) in order to move coins to switch over to a new wallet.dat.


UPDATE:  There was a very brief (~60 second) outage on the mining servers to update which address they mine coins to for the wallet switch.

Yeah, probably a bad word to use.  Although there will also be TOR mining through a .onion as well ;p  Basically the actual servers won't be exposed to traffic anymore.  The website would be attackable since it must be exposed, but the mining pools would never be exposed to a direct connection.

Thank you .  If things work as I believe they will with the protocol rewrite, I'm going to have some extra lines of defense against DDoS as well.  The new system reduces bandwidth consumption dramatically (uploaded data to miners should be in the realm of 1-2 KB/MINUTE regardless of how fast the miner is).  With that, I might be able to affordably move the servers to new IPs privately, and setup a proxy layer of Amazon EC2 instances using Elastic IPs.  If a DDoS were to hit them, I could swap IPs in just a few seconds.  It wouldn't eliminate a DDoS, and would interrupt mining, but it would make a sustained DDoS (like last years' 3-4 day long DDoS) impossible.

NOOOOOOOOO!  Not lower rates.  Somebody generate extra business for pirate to keep this party rolling!

I'm trying to unload some old inventory from my used game store, and have started going through some of the side items I had purchased for the store when I ran into my boxes of card game booster packs which I was using to try to spur some extra repeat business.  I'm selling the following packs (brand new/sealed):

12x Magic The Gathering: Mirrodin Besieged
34x Magic The Gathering: 2011 Core Set
5x Magic The Gathering: New Phyrexia
25x Magic The Gathering: Scars of Mirrodin
8x Pokemon Black & White (Original set, includes some type of online code)

Current asking prices (no shipping charged for orders over 5 packs):
0.5 BTC for a Magic: The Gathering pack (0.4 BTC per pack if you order more than 10)
0.5 BTC for a Pokemon pack (0.4 BTC per pack if you order all 8 )
0.5 BTC shipping if ordering less than 5 packs.

I also have World of Warcraft, Dragon Ball Z, Magic Nation, and Yu-Gi-Oh! booster packs which have not been sorted through yet.  Please let me know if you're interested in any of those.


Packs will be shipped First Class USPS with tracking provided.  International shipping can be negotiated, though tracking will not be available due to how much extra it costs to add that to USPS mail.


OTC/Trust Rating:  I do not have any OTC/WOT ratings, but I have been running one of the largest mining pools for the last year [see signature links].

I have received a full refund before.  Of course it was through PayPal, so they didn't have much choice since I could chargeback if they refused.  Just like their shipping times, it took them way longer than how long they said it would be refunded (almost started the chargeback process).