One DDoS and their reliability "takes a dump"? Every single pool^* is vulnerable to a DDoS and all the large ones have been attacked and taken down for hours or days at a time. ABCpool has a good track record of reliability and low stales. A whopping 4%? They are the cheapest PPS pool available right now. Deepbit charges 10%.

* All conventional centralized pools

They seem to be back up.

It's an obvious weak link in every pool's reliability. Not even deepbit will stop a DDoS and they are a much bigger pool with a ton more money pouring in (%3 fee, 3500 ghps, ≈$15,000 per month). How about BTC Guild or Slush? They choke within minutes of an attack and will stay down at the discretion of the attacker. It's not realistic to demand expensive protection from pool operators for these attacks. BTC guild was literally blackmailed to keep a botnet on their server. When eleuthria finally banned him the pool was taken down within hours and didn't come back for days.

It's a very frustrating time for abcpool. I know they're working around the clock to mitigate the attack and it completely sucks to see your hard work get taken down like this.

Last one has been bought. Thanks to everyone who purchased one.

Three more have been purchased. Only three remain. Already have some interest, so they won't last much longer.

What do you live?

Two more went out today. 3 whites and 3 blacks remaining.

The last one was sold tonight. Thanks to everyone who purchased one. Sold out much quicker than I thought. 

Brian

Selling complete units right now. Two left so they are selling pretty well.

Brian

Extra $50 for shipping each one.

Brian

You have an address? I'll send it out.

What guarantees it?

Shipped one off today. Eight more to go.

Quarts92 is a suspected scammer. I would hold off paying him anything until we can clear the situation up.

Quarts92 is a suspected scammer. I would hold off paying him anything until we can clear the situation up.

Quartz92 is a suspected scammer. He was trying to do a double before any figured it out.

Sold two rigs by local pickup. Transaction went well. I have 9 rigs remaining. PM me if you're interested.

Brian

That's a good point. I never understood why Mt. Gox did that. They have a seperate configuration for logging in and withdrawing funds. I don't know how splitting them up makes it any safer and I don't know why they couldn't just go with a generic yubikey.

I also use it with lastpass. It's great.


Sure, I'll just have to figure out the rate. It shouldn't be too much more, they are pretty tiny.

I bought ten when they were on sale. Still in their original packaging and I've never used them.

What can I do with a Yubikey? I personally use it for lastpass. Couldn't have an easier multi-authentication implementation.

You're a brave soul.