Since you are a fucking conspiracy nut, here it is in unambiguous terms:  I do not invest coins into cryptocurrency businesses.  I do not invest fiat into them either.  I have no ties to Gox outside of selling coins on their platform up until the day DHS seized funds from them.  This applies to MaidSafe (whom I had never even heard of until these posts), and any other similar scheme.  Anybody who has been involved in BTC as long as me that continues to trust shit like this deserves everything that happens to them.

Grow a fucking braincell and you might realize that templar77's analysis has NO tie to me in any way.  It ties coins to my pool.  You can also find similar ties to Butterfly Labs, ASICMINER, HashFast, CoinTerra, and just about every other Bitcoin business/IPO/investment, because that pool has been in the top 3 pools since 2011, and was the source of ~25% of all coins generated in the last year.

Intelligent people have a habit of overlooking the dumbest mistakes.  Although from what I've seen, I'm not so sure about either statement.  From what I've read, he strikes me as one of those people who would tell people their IQ as a sign of intellect...from the free online IQ test they took when they were 13.

You may not have seen it, but it isn't the first time luck for Slush (or any pool) has had a swing like that in a short period.

And this is why you should always fact check what "bitcoin investigators" report.  You are trying to link that wallet to me using blockchain.info's tag of my username.  LOOK AT THE FUCKING ADDRESS HISTORY.  That is the BTC Guild's pool wallet.  ~25% of all coins mined in the last year (and it goes back even further) can be traced back to that wallet.

I have tried repeatedly to get blockchain.info to fix this fucking tag and they continually just ignore my requests.


I had no fucking clue what MaidSafe was until I got 3 PMs on the forum and a link to a fucking Coinbasedesk article trying to link me to them from this bullshit post.

Are you people stupid?  The address linked to "me" is not mine.  It's the pool's wallet.  Roughly 25% of all coins mined in the last year can be traced back to that wallet.  If you're going to try to use taint analysis you should at least have a fucking clue what you're looking at first.

I have asked multiple times for blockchain.info to correct that tag and they do nothing as always.

Alright, I've revised my opinion.  It's no longer MLM/Pyramid.

It's simply pants on head retarded (and a pyramid scheme).

Hmm, good point.  MLM is "legit" because it's a distribution model (that is almost identical to a pyramid scheme).  A mining pool is not a distribution model though...it's literally paying a tax to somebody for giving you a link to sign up with and nothing else.

You do realize that all the major pools pay out transaction fees *and* merge mined coins...right?  GHash, BTC Guild, Eligius, and Slush all pay TX Fees.  GHash, BTC Guild, and Eligius pay merge mined coins (Slush does not merged mine, provable by looking at the coinbase for his blocks lacking the mm tags).  Other smaller pools do as well (but I can't speak for certain about which ones, I just track the major ones).

I don't think Discus Fish does, but they're Pay per Share last I checked.  Wouldn't trust Google Translate on a Chinese mining pool's fee system.

I'm was assuming you don't get placed under a random node, you start your own pyramid when you join.  But then again, that raises the question:  Why would anybody join on your link when they could sign up without paying for the privilege of being referred by you.  Which means this entire system is broken in one of 2 ways:

1) You join under a random person who is going to tax the shit out of you (higher fee effectively)
2) You join under a random person and then sign up a new account without being under anyone.


Either way, we've already had pools do this stupid shit before.  All it does is lead to forum spam of people trying to get others to sign up with their link.  There's nothing unique here other than it's a tax on the people who use your link instead of a straight bonus to yourself.


EDIT:  It's technically a Multi Level Marketing Scheme, not a Pyramid Scheme.  Not that it's much better.

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Difficulty is defined per connection.  So if you have 3 machines all using one single instance of cgminer/bfgminer, you should use the total speed for your minimum difficulty selection.  If each one has it's own miner software instance, use the per miner speed for selecting difficulty.

As posted above though, the pool will change your difficulty regardless if it's not set correctly (though the pool will not put it lower than your minimum).  It's mostly needed for specific hardware that has problems with low difficulty mining, or requires specific difficulty settings from the pool.

Not a big update, but now that the 'Payments' page which showed PPS Earnings History + Withdrawals is simply the 'Withdrawals' page, NMC withdrawals are now shown on the page instead of requiring you to download the CSV export to get that transaction history/TXID list.

This information is only shown if you have NMC display enabled in the Settings page.

Mostly because 2FA is such a major pain in the ass when it comes to support.  People lose their phones.  A lot.  They also brick them a lot in the Bitcoin community.  BTC Guild *does* have 2FA in the form of email confirmation for account changes if you have an email set.  You can also add 2FA to some email services, adding  yet another layer of security on top of the general confirmation.  It's not as full proof as a OTP style authenticator, but there's also a huge number of sites with 2FA that will actually remove it with enough bitching at support.

BTC Guild offers a much stronger protection:  Wallet locking.  Lock the wallet and your account is secure unless somebody actually obtains your wallet's private keys.  If you lose your wallet's keys, you have bigger problems than losing the ability to use your BTC Guild account.  If you lose your phone, you only lose the current balance in your account due to lack of 2FA (assuming no exceptions are ever made).  If you lose your private keys, you've lost whatever is in your account plus whatever was withdrawn but not spent.

Yes, the Scrypt mining on BTC Guild will be the same.  You would point your miners at (example): scrypt.btcguild.com:3334.  By default it will automatically pick LTC or DOGE based on current profitability.  However, you will have a setting on your workers to switch between Auto, DOGE, and LTC just like you would on ScryptGuild.

Email locks are generally not removed because generally an account is compromised via a compromised email (as in the case above).  So sending a message from the locked address doesn't prove anything in many cases.  A signed message from the wallet on the account is sometimes able to reverse an email lock, if the wallet used to sign the message has been on the account for a reasonable length of time (multiple payouts already processed to that address).  It's examined on a case by case basis.

I gave the EU filtering server a little reboot after seeing your report, it was definitely going very slow.  Once you actually start mining you don't communicate with that server anymore (it redirects you), so generally if those have issues it's related to a large botnet trying to mine on it (and failing), an attack, or communication issues with the real backend servers.

You should definitely start changing your passwords though, because the wallet changes were confirmed via email, meaning the person has/had access to your email.  The wallet was not locked.

You're the only one.  1CUMRx9LqHjHowujkTqTKpAcVk9aeGtfrt is the address your account was changed to.  That address has only ever received one transaction (other than change sent from itself).  

Send an email to support@btcguild.com, but you're probably screwed.  However, you obviously did NOT have your wallet locked if it was changed.  Period.  It's only possible to do manually by me if you send a message signed with the private key of the locked address.

A small update has been pushed to the dashboard/database which consolidates all the old PPS earnings data for faster lookup.  This should be completely transparent to the user, but there is always a chance I missed something!  If your earnings/unpaid balance has gone negative on the dashboard, please let me know!  All the scripts used for payout processing are still using the original data, and that original data is still kept (to preserve the history for CSV export), so it should be a simple fix if something like that has happened.