9 hours after the last post we've hit another block, but it's a damn uncle.  Still not bad for a short period of time.  Payments are still going out, no hacker issues for the last few blocks.  Looks like I finally managed to patch all the holes and keep them out.

You talk about evidence yet you refuse to actually look at the evidence.  Trace the block rewards that were stolen, it's out there for anyone to see, and you'll see them going into an account with millions and many comments about the account stealing money by hacking others.  So if I were keeping the money, why would I go to all the trouble just to steal 2 (yes, it was only 2) block rewards?  At the time of the first one eth was about $180, the second one it was around $250.  

Again, look at the evidence, look at the payouts.  If I were working with 10 of the bigger miners to steal the money from the smaller miners, why have there been so many small payouts?  Why would I steal 2 blocks out of 8?  Why would I do that after only having the pool open for a month?  If I were a scammer I would let the pool continue to grow, since it was growing very fast, wait until we were pulling in several blocks a day then say there was something wrong with the payment system, keep people mining for a while, then shut everything down, take the eth and be done with it.

Sorry, had to cut my message short as the pool hit another block as I was typing it.  So editing now to continue to tell you what an idiot you are for making assumptions without actually looking at the evidence.  And now another block, safe, and payments all went out until there is only $2 worth of eth left.  Everyone who had a pending balance of 0.1 or higher was paid in full.  Now when the next block hits, we will be back to 0.05 eth threshold. 

And yes I make jokes about it because the idea that I've scammed anyone out of eth is funny to me.  And yes, we did lose some miners over the lost reward, and we've had some come back after payouts were secure and they started getting paid what they were owed because as I keep saying, everyone WILL BE PAID, and I'm proving that.  Even you will be paid, if you haven't been already, because I won't steal money, even from someone like you.

You are wrong.  The only person who has lost anything is me.  People are still being paid, we are still finding blocks.  Sure we are behind, but it doesn't mean everyone won't get paid.  I did add some of my own money with the first hack to cover some of the payouts. 

If you're such a security expert, why don't you explain to us incompetent people how the hacks happened?  I didn't think so.

So why don't you calm down because you didn't get your 0.05eth yet and STFU until you know what you're talking about.

Thanks.

Not a scammer, an evil mastermind!  There are no such thing as hackers.  People don't try to steal ethereum, that would just be silly.  It's all me!  I spent thousands of dollars on a server, insane amounts of time setting up the server and getting it secure, countless hours answering emails and chat questions, even spent time creating a video to show new people how to setup a wallet and get connected to our server.  All the money and hard work has paid off by stealing 5 eth!

I'm rich now!  I'm headed to Vegas, if you need me I'll be in a the presidential suit at the most expensive casino resort I can find with half a dozen hookers and a large bag of coke for the next couple years.

Viva La Scamming! 

Hit another block today, the new security measures worked and hackers were kept out.  The payments went out.  We are still running behind, but people are getting paid.

Yep, people will see, word will spread about the hard times we had and how we were able to work together and overcome them, and more people will join.  We have a feeling of community and everyone only wants to help everyone else.  Payments will go out every couple days when we find a block and by the end of the month everyone will be paid in full and normal payments going out on time, every time.

Yep, you caught me.  I worked all day, every day to answer questions, help people, and get the pool running smooth just to steal the block reward and send it to my account with over 2 million USD worth of eth.  I'm an evil mastermind!

Other than that dumbshit's stupid response....

Several of the bigger hash miners have asked to forfeit their pending balances to help the pool pay off everyone else.  Now that is loyalty and faith in a pool.

I did raise the minimum payout to 0.25, and since a lot of people don't understand exactly how a pool works and payouts, mathematically it will help me catch up on payments.  After every block I'm going to lower the min back down by 0.05 until we get back to 0.05 min.  I'm also going to add my own funds once we see that the pool is secure from more hacks.  I've worked hard to stop them and have fixed the last vulnerability that was used.

So we were hacked a while back, I then got together with some experts and we plugged every security hole we could find.  I changed our wallet address, but didn't delete the old one that had been hacked.  Somehow the hacker got in and changed our block reward to go back to the old, hacked wallet.  The new wallet has never had an issue.  I don't know how they managed to change it back to the old one, but it's my fault for not deleting it I guess.  It's deleted now of course.  I also added new security measures to ban any ip that tries to connect to the server through SSH, and that ban list is growing at an alarming rate. 

I don't know why we are being targeted, but I would love to meet the guy.  I'm pretty sure I narrowed it down to a hacker with an ip out of San Diego, CA.  If only I could get their ISP to give me his address. 

In one month we grew to 120 miners and average of 11GH/s.  I think that's pretty good.  Of course now it's much lower and I can understand why a lot of people left, mining costs money and if it gets stolen, what's the point.  All I can do is keep trying.

And the pool was hacked again.  I can't stop them.  We are being targeted for some reason.  It took them 14 seconds from the time we found the block until they had stole the reward.  The wallet was locked, rpc was not accessible to the internet, and SSH was key + encrypted password which was only accessible from a flash drive sitting on my desk.  I'm doing everything I can to make it hacker proof, but hackers are smarter than me.  If you choose to mine on my pool, don't hold me personally responsible if we are hacked again.  You are aware of the risks.

I can say I'm sorry, but that won't help.  I don't have the money to pay out of pocket for another lost block reward.  Help from anyone to try to stop future attacks would be appreciated.  Just contact me on the website, our telegram chat, or email.  

email me with your wallet address and I'll see what I can do.

Once we hit a block it adds the reward to everyone's pending balance, if your balance is over 0.05 you get paid, if it's less it keeps it there until the next block and adds your share again and checks again to see if you have reached the 0.05.

Right now we have around 115 miners and 12GH/s.  Not too bad for a pool that's only a month old.

Need to find a way to increase our mining pool, maybe bring on someone to help do some marketing.  We find a block every 2 days, but would be nice to get our hash rate up enough to start finding a couple blocks a day.  We have a good group of people, an open chat for everyone to talk and help each other.  It's a good pool.

Still have a bit of catching up to do after being hacked and loosing some eth.  But at least we have hack proofed the server and payments are going out with no issues.  And I'm trying to fund the main account myself to make up for the lost block reward a few blocks back.

But we have a steady amount of miners that hovers around 100, and a hash rate that stays around 9GH, jumps higher when people decide to go nuts with nicehash like they did last night, hit 17GH.

The pool is in the 9GH range now, so blocks should be coming on a more regular basis.  Also the issues with Nicehash have been resolved so now anyone who wants to use nicehash on our pool can without any problem.

Pool host: noobpool.com
Pool port: 8008
Pool user: Your wallet address
Pool pass: #
Algorithm: DaggerHashimoto

It's that simple.

Over 30 miners were paid in full today before the account ran out of funds.  I'm going to be funding the account myself in the next few days to cover the loss from the stolen block.  So if you have a pending balance you will be paid that amount soon.

We were hacked once again, they managed to steal the block reward almost instantly. The stolen eth was sent directly to Shapeshift who were notified about the theft. If we are lucky they will be able to stop them from withdrawing the money and get it back to us. Until them I'm going to try to fund the account myself to get the payments out, but it could take me a few days.

Should I threaten to cut my face off and eat it again if we don't hit it by a set %?

Yeah, it's slowed down on the forum a lot since I setup the chat room.  We just need to remember to come bump this post once in a while so we don't get lost. 

We are ranked #1 in mining pools on cryptocompare.com, right below the sponsored pool.  https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/#/pools  Maybe this will help bring in more people and a higher hash rate.

2 in a row?  I don't think our luck can be that bad.