I had a inquire from someone about using BIT-X to buy some BTC. I asked them to let me know about their experance to see if I wanted to keep advertising the site. I heard back from them that they were very pleased with BIT-X so I will continue with the sig campaign.

LoL kind of what I thought .... Nothing wrong with having some fun with the mining. When I get home I will edit the post with a screenshot of the miner.

I understand that as you took a hard hit last time.

Just wondering did you order new or used?

Fail again...

I am thinking the move was planned as they (Canaan) left right after a block was found. It's not to say they will not come back in the future.

On a better note I guess one of my miners found the last block on this pool...

 Last Found Blocks
Height   Finder   Time   Difficulty   Amount   Expected Shares   Actual Shares   Percentage
347865   Aurel57   03/16/2015 13:42:39   47,427,554,950.6483   25.00   47,427,554,951   101,823,477,146   214.69


Edit: just checked and it was one of my S3 miners (490 Gh/s) that I had just moved back to the pool less than 5 hours earlier.   and in a twist of faith it was one of 3 miners I named after ....Really?  

New Email:



Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Gil" <admin@bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com>
Date: March 16, 2015 at 9:07:50 AM EDT
To: aurel57@yahoo.com
Subject: [Bitcoin Affiliate Network - News Update] Hey aurel57, Incoming DDOS attack


There's an incoming DDOS attack today. I received an extortion request yesterday.
They're claiming to be able to take down all the servers... The threat is credible as they've already
taken down many big pools.


aurel57.. you are receiving this email because you're currently mining in the pool.


If you're in europe or asia switch to this private stratum node: stratum+tcp:xxxxx

You may also use  if xxxx you wish.


I'm currently setting up a private server in the USA.

I took steps yesterday to protect the main web site... which I'm confident will work. We're on a new ip
network behind cloudflare.com ddos protection. There's just not much I can do about the public stratum nodes.
I don't have full control over most of them.

You can keep mining where your'e at right now... perhaps use the private pool as backup... if it's
further from your location.

I will write soon with the US one...

-Gil (s0br)

p.s. This new server isn't public, new, and not known to the attackers. They will keep your mining
safe and unaffected.



Email below....


Hello,

To introduce ourselves first:

http://blogs.akamai.com/2014/12/dd4bc-anatomy-of-a-bitcoin-extortion-campaign.html

http://bitcoinbountyhunter.com/bitalo.html

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113499/notorious-hacker-group-involved-in-excoin-theft-owner-accuses-ccedk-of-withholding-info

Or just google “DD4BC” and you will find more info.

Recently, we were DDoS-ing bw.com, bitminter and other pools - you probably know for it if you read cryptocurrency news.



So, it’s your turn.


Unless you pay 10 BTC to 1LHPpEdxWvhQip3KqdRd9jgBuYHSGUB7Zp within 12 hours from now, your pool servers are going under heavy DDoS attack.

Pay, and you will never hear from us again.

Usually, we attack first, then ask BTC to stop, but since your pool is too big, one of the largest Bitcoin pools, we are giving you time to act first, because we are well aware that even 1 hour offline would cause much larger damage then 10 BTC.

12 hours, because we are not in the same time zone and it’s morning in china, so we want to make sure that you had time to act.

AS PROOF that this is not an empty threat, we will run a small attack on on your server now – 188.166.18.30. Don’t worry it’s not going to be hard and will run for just 1 hour, so your server will not get null routed.
But if not paid, all your servers are going down for good.

Please note that it will not be easy to mitigate our attack, because our current UDP flood power is 400-500 Gbps.

IMPORTANT: You don’t even have to reply. Just pay 10 BTC to 1LHPpEdxWvhQip3KqdRd9jgBuYHSGUB7Zp – we will know it’s you and you will never hear from us again.

But if you ignore us, attack will start and price to stop will go to 20 BTC and will keep going up for every day of delay.

ONE MORE TIME: It’s a one-time payment. Pay and you will not hear from us ever again!

Thank you.

I have mine set at 12 hours and my last 2 payments before this last one were sent 12 hours apart. The pool runs out of coins is why payments are late most of the time. Only a few times in the past it was due to s0br being the only one that could move coins to the hot wallet and he was MIA and we had to wait for him to refill it. After all the coins that were found in the last few days I think payments will be back on time for a while now.

Well maybe once these new blocks confirm it might help a lot...I hope 

jonny I agree.  My short answer is instead of "luck" think in terms of variance. The question is how to make the variance not as high swings and that short answer in my opinion is  to spread your hash over a couple of pools. Then the things to consider are pool fees, size of the pool and integrity of the pool operator.  

Yes and don't be alarmed at the amount of your payment as your still ramping up. 

The good news is BAN has 4 blocks 5   6 BLOCKS so far today, the pool is on fire hitting blocks... the bad news going on 38+hours again without payment.

The pool loss about half of the hash it had prior to finding the last block, due to a large miner leaving, so the blocks are coming slower but the payouts will be bigger. Just don't get discouraged with your first payouts until you get past the 500% mark which this block is at 167%. Kano has explained how the payout systems works many times here. Bottom line is this pool is honest with no worries.

It depends on if you are the type of miner that wants to take a chance doesn't mind variance or wants a steady payout. For steady use one of the PPS pools like BAN which has a 0% fee or DFish which charges a 4% fee. The trade off is DFish makes payments on time daily and BAN is always late on payments a lot but has always paid.

If you want to take more of a chance don't mind variance  then use kano's pool which pays PPLNS and you will only get paid if and when the pool finds a block and charges a  Pool fee of .9% . Another pool you can try is Slush but if you pull your miners before a block is found you may lose all your shares you mined. You can also try a p2pool node near you.

   Welcome aboard... not sure if your doing anything wrong but the pool has not found a block in the last 25 hours and even then the payout will not come until the blocks has 100+  confirms.

Just received a small donation from someone on p2pool that was a suprise

Threw some rental hash back at p2pool last night about 1 hour before that block was found.... wish I had done it earlier but can hope the pool finds another fast couple.

So you have not had any late payments at all?  

It most likely would be a lot higher if payments were made on time or on  some sort of time table that people could count on.