Don't want to be a Scrooge, but....

With the recent DogeCoin hacks and such - if you post your receive address here - encrypt your wallet just in case.

Think of it this way - this entire thread is a list of active accounts.

Be safe and secure, not sorry.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I've been trying to put it all in perspective...

Major DogeCoin wallet hack...check
Major DDoS attack against various DogeCoin websites...check
Payouts slow or non-existent....check

I'm kinda leaning towards one of two conclusions here - either 1) the pool owner was hacked and the website has been under attack for some time; or 2) the attackers were trying to drive us to specific pools which they did not attack in order to set up the heist.

Regardless, I'm kind of stuck - I have tried several other pools and there has been no comparison in what I have been able to generate through scryptpools vs. netcodepool vs. forkpool. Mining at scryptpools generates way more shares than any other site I've tried so far.

So for those of you going to other pools, I'm using cgminer and cpuminer side by side. Using Intel HD 4000 GPU and Core i5 CPU. Any suggestions as to how I can equal my returns through other pools?

I'm willing to give Phonetic the benefit of the doubt but I want to start hedging my bets....remember scryptpools started Dec 8, 2013 so growing pains are to be expected.

Possible...but that calls into question the ethics of the miners who were double paid by mistake. If that happened, then ethically they stole from those who were the rightful owners of the overpayments. I don't know how you fix that other than create a ledger balance against the overpayment that transfers the amount back to the sender. Could that be why some people complained about coins disappearing from their wallets without their knowledge??? (Just sayin' - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction).

If I understand what we are doing as pool miners [and feel free to correct me if I have this wrong], we (the miners) are lending our computing power (hashing) to the pool operator when we mine. I kind of think of it like miners taking on the role of the Federal Reserve in the US Treasury system to clear financial transactions and settle account balances.

Miners verify hashes - which in turn verifies the parent transaction. In turn, we (the miners) get paid for acting as clearinghouses for transactions by validating the hashes and the blocks that make up the entire chain of transactions since day one. As such, when we discover unauthorized transactions don't we have the ethical duty to reverse that transaction and report it as unauthorized. Otherwise how do we guarantee the integrity of the system?

In the real world, we all know that if our bank gave us $1000 that didn't belong to us, they would take it back within hours...right? I think that if cryptocurrency is to have any legitimacy as an alternative to cash, then at a very minimum the ledger balances have to be true. Otherwise I can pretend to be rich and you just have to take my word for it.

If Phonetic is out of coins and can not balance the ledger for his miners because some were double paid by mistake then that is a legitimate reason payouts have been slow. NOTE: I did NOT say it justifies the current situation.

But if that is the case, we have a bigger problem - miners who will abuse the pool and fellow miners to get what they want and damn anyone else.

To those trying to make manual withdrawls from the pool and not having success - make sure you are using the dogecoin-qt wallet to receive and take the address generated and copy that to the payment address line in the "Edit Account" information. This will automatically copy the same address info to the payment address blank under the "Cash Out" function. Then you can make an immediate withdrawl if that is what you wish to do.

Those who were complaining about the downtime and the other issues - hang in there. I have personally sent private messages to the pool operator and he responded quickly and professionally. NO BS. I think the pool is just having growing pains.

I think minimum withdrawl is 1.00 btc (I saw something mentioning 0.05 btc but I don't think you can go that low). The calculator says it will take forever and a day to get a block based upon current difficulty. That's why I'm looking at alt currency.

Sorry I couldn't reply sooner. Had trouble getting back in...

I took the advice given and went to http://www.wheretomine.com and did some research on alternate coins I might be able to leverage against bitcoins. I tried CinnamonCoin but could not get started mining (signed up for pool mining but couldn't get either CGminer or CPUminer to work).

I also looked at WorldCoin, but not sure if that is a good alternative.

In the meantime, back to my original post -

I think someone from Slush's pool read my post because my account started updating again. Don't know if my balance is right because I can't get a daily log. Does anyone know how to keep a running ledger for their mining activities?

I started mining about a week ago using a HP Envy m6 using GUIminer and was doing okay. The longer I mined the more shares I started collecting. Got up to 0.00001350 in my balance and decided to try CPU mining on an Ubuntu 12 box using cpuminer because my graphics card (Radeon 9250 - [R9/250] does not support OpenCL) won't let me GPU mine on Ubuntu. The minute I started CPU mining, my reward balance became stuck and has not updated. What should I do?