Hi,

There is no more whitelist, and blocks are handled by the ISP now. You may want however to do a "ip hop" if you can, or wait for the block to expire.


Mark

Hi,

MtGox is not down, however chances are you got blocked if you tried to hammer in.


Mark

Try the VPS service from Diablo-D3 (ask him on IRC, he'll show you)

Be careful, if a weird russian approaches you with a ransom request.

I had a guy approach me and asking $5000 via LR, when I said no he said he'd attack again, and generated a ddos. His ddos was different from what I had before, so I'd guess lots of people are seeing in bitcoin an opportunity to make money.

I strongly recommend against doing anything those guys request, and even replying may be a bad idea, just click "spam".

Mtgox might be back but the LR withdraw function is broken again. Which isn't too surprising since the LR withdraw function has worked only 2 twice out of the 50+ times I've tried it. You always blame the LR withdraw being broken on LR's API but mtgox is your website and therefore it is your responsibility to make sure it functions as advertised. When you advertise that people can sell bitcoins for LR and then that functionality doesn't work it is very deceptive. You should at least let people know on the front page of your site when the LR withdraw isn't working that way people don't waste their time, and bitcoins/money. Another, alternative would be to do the LR withdraws manually when the automatic withdraw isn't working. I would also suggest looking into other e-currencies so that people have more options. If you keep mtgox is this perpetual state of reduced functionality eventually someone else is going to make a website that works and you will lose my business and everyone else that doesn't want to wait to withdraw their money.

Also, please no one tell me I should use the bank wire instead. First off, I am in the USA so the minimum is $800 which I don't always have in my mtgox account. Even if I did bank wire isn't a good option for me.
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How about Dwolla?

Oh and for LR, we've hit the security global daily limit, which means you'll have to retry tomorrow. If you have an urgent need, please email info@mtgox.com with the details of the transfer you want to do.


Thanks

DNS TTL is 600 seconds (10 minutes)

Anyway, mtgox is back.

Current ETA for mtgox back: before 14:00 GMT (in fact, it should be in less than 2 hours, but never know what can happen)

installing new server, stuff will be back shortly~

It's already in progress, server setup is done and testing is in progress

Wouldn't try anything with the word "cloud" in it

IPs blocked so far:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/381851/

That's why the passphrase is important. The user infos is mainly here to make it "more unique" (call it public salt if you wish)

User is there at his own risk.

I was thinking about adding SSN number or such too....

Hi,

I get often asked by people how to "save" coins in a way that would allow them and only them to access at any point, even without having any numerical data remaining.

I came up with a little idea: have the private keys generated based on the user infos. Except for the passphrase the infos make sure the user is himself, and nobody else.
This also allows a user to put his passphrase in his will and give his crypto-currency wealth to his children.

Anyway, please discuss.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/ID_Backup

I guess:
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/ab16c3aebf495708c2202fb21dd29cca53470cfe5aac2492b2730c1be6a82c8b

For info ddos has stopped.

I will still move activity to a more proofed server once I find one that fits all the requirements.

Are you accessing from a public network or is your ip compromised?

Because it [almost] works. I still block when loadavg goes too high, but it somehow works.

Liquidity in banks do not move on weekends anyway, and we'll be back by monday

I think he's not directly responsible, but may have mentioned publicly (in Russian) that he'd like trading to stop on mtgox, and got some "friends" who offered their help.