That is what I am sayng Calm down dude
Peace

Not the case I think. If I was in his shoes and I was paid I would come for more....that is how blackmailing works

Or just because D D 4 B C realized that he will not earn any money from Chinese brothers
And all further D D 4 B C ransom efforts will lead to direct money loss for him
How about it D D 4 B C?

In short
That means that Antpool is buggy
How can that happen
1. On purpose
2. Because it is buggy
3. 1 and 2  

They refuse to relay transactions that is all

Do not forget the bandwith dude. Yo need to have a lot of it then most fancy firewall equipment does not work when your wire is filled with crap it just get stuck and your server is a dead meet. No one can reach it

TTravis,
Please act as IT Security consultant, not like my literature high school teacher.
Just to remind you that so called more secure network whatever it means do cost a huge amount of money
We all will see what is about to happen.

Hey Bad Boy,
I am wandering how much do you pay to hire the bandwidth and zombie hosts?

Frankly speaking Bitmain will not give you a single BTC because he just does not care about folks  here if they will use his pool or not. It is just a little extra profit for him which is not 10 BTC for sure. Paying you means direct loss for him! Besides once blackmailed there is no guarantee that you would not come back for more.
 
And you gonna loose all of your money invested from no on. Trust me on that Chinese are famous with collecting money not giving them away

The question still remains why folks here are so desperate to mine at bitmain pool?
The decentralization propaganda is dead already! Does the  marketing trick 0% fee pool stil works for you folks? My first lesson in the high school was: THERE IS NO SUCH THING LIKE A FREE LUNCH! As far as i am aware BITMAIN is not synonym for charity. Or you just want steady and regular payouts? or What? Or you do believe that
your ants are hashing faster here which maximizes your profits? Or you like the fancy web backend?
Come on, wake up and think! That is the only thing i can say. Use your heads.
There are a plenty of other alternatives even operated by Chinese for the mandarin fans.

I do not know how much money BITMAIN is making from home miners as long as it is 0% a free pool
But in all cases if D D 4 B C pays 1 BTC to hire ddos zombies or bandwidth or whatever he is doing for example, BITMAIN need to spent at least 10 BTC (bandwidth, firewall machines and so on) to try to stop it.
Does it worth it?
No of course.
As i see things Antpool will stay semi closed place for the hashnest and big players until D D 4 B C gives up. D D 4 B C tryes to make some money and he will give up when he sees that there is no ROI. How long it will take depends from D D 4 B C and his pocket.
But in order for ddos to succeed one Needs a lot of bandwith comming from all over the world
Simple as that

As I said it is up to you to decide.....
That is all I can say....
All of the above is just my personal opinion.
Not mentioning a particular pool in my list does just means I have no impressions from pool and I have not used it.but once again important part is what to avoid in my oppinion 
Good luck to you

There is another test miner for past few days with a block already. Will you be so kind to tell us why you need test coins as long you got a block already?
The guy before you mined 10+ blocks. I am wandering why....a?
10x

I can recomend following pools the order is random
Bitminter
Kano
Btcguild

Because I trust the people who run the pools. That is a personal opinion of course

I will avoid at any cost a Antpool,  f2pool and so on. I am talking about all CHINESE pools in general

If you feel brave you can go solo take all or nothing you got the jar and the honey if you are lucky

P2pool is ok also but you will face "jar" unrelated issues there....

Happy birthday to you and your team...!

Aha I thought you were talking about some extra costs. Any way running a pool costs money for sure.
Thank you for the clarification.

Yeah... That is what can safe us

Luke,
Do you realy think that redirecting a miner after first share will "hide or protect" given server?
Do not get me wrong but in 99% of cases when bad boys know their shit and have the resources required you can not do much about it.
Your ISp is the one who shall take care. And depending how hard ddos is it is not an easy task at all....

I am wandering what makes you think that they are spending money?
I do agree that paying ransom is not the solution but ....spending money....it sounds like you have internal info or what?

The only two things which can stop ddos are:

1. Big pipe   if bad boys have 1g connection your ISP should have at least 2gig as an example
2. Expensive machines to filter out ddos sitting  in front of the target, taking the fire and capable of doing that - CPU ram and so on
3. Both 1 and 2

Ports and protocols handshakes do not have anything  in common especially when it is UDP  flood. As long as UDP is stateless bad boys just fill your connection with crap

When bad  boys are clever and if they have the appropriate resources available it is very very hard to stop them

The appropriate resources do cost  money. so called "fix" happens when:
1. They are out of money and are not able to "rent" big enough resource to attack
2. They are filtered out in the first hop. Works only when they are using ip's which are not random. In most cases the attack is performed from infected PC's al over the world

Choose smaller pool that is the answer.

Here it is

https://blockchain.info/address/1PKN98VN2z5gwSGZvGKS2bj8aADZBkyhkZ


Look for 'No Inputs (Newly Generated Coins)' records - 0.12xxxxxx BTC

Very strange dude
Any way you got your solution and ssh
Happy maiming