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I see you have replaced some ads on the forum with a very public spirited warning. Well done.

Hopefully your advertising revenue will get back on stream ASAP ! 

Wednesday, January 4th, 2014

This pool will be CLOSING on January 11th, 2014. A hacker stole the LTC out of the wallet via a mysql injection exploit. I am pretty sure I fixed the hole but the damage was done. Anyone who had a balance before Jan 28th has been reset to 0 due to the LTC being stolen. Anyone who continued mining with the pool has been paid for all blocks found after block 487,780. Payouts are enabled again.

This pool never charged a fee to mine. That is why there is no funds to repay users. Most users had a small balance because they did withdraws on a regular basis. Several users lost 10+ LTC because they kept their LTC on the pool instead of withdrawing. I apologize for your loss. I never wanted this to happen but it has. I tried to dream up ways to keep the pool open and pay back users but none were feasible due to constant DOS attacks, increased costs to try to mitigate the attacks, and the server costs.

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I have been playing with Vanitygen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) and see potential for making the various coin addresses more friendly and engaging than just a bunch of random stuff. Potential to build brand awareness is evident along with making the address look more acceptable to people.

I would like to see which address you have generated and which coin its for.

for example, I have for BTC:  1CoLin4dZkecGinkw2YcjioXJ2QUGLKbzm

and for a fun altcoin I am playing with GRDT:  GrdtCoinU2DuGbaQxNwjBkb5YaaeLKs2F9


please don't post your private key  

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An interesting development I have stumbled across, Bitcoins being sold for 1 oz gold bullion coins in London.

Sounds like the turbulence in the bitcoin exchange rate have woken someone up who thinks gold may be a safe bet?

https://localbitcoins.com/ad/56043/buy-bitcoins-with-cash-leicester-square-united-kingdom/?ch=pjj