I just downloaded it from github as a test.  Worked fine.

Scroll the F up and you'll see the there has been a discussion of alternative download URLs in the past 24 hours (or read the F-ing OP which also specifies the backup download location).  Not to mention that ckolivas explained that he is in fact getting a better hosting plan just 4 posts ago.

This is what it says in the popup if you get a successful login...

I just upgraded to 3.0.1 (git) from 2.10.4 and my hashrate dropped by 10%!  You broke my GPU?

Just kidding   The upgrade actually was very smooth.  Love the new libusb support.  Thanks for your hard work, guys!

Well, it can be down, but only when the Internet is down.

For the purposes of transparency, here is my final status update:

greaterninja's unit: Trade was completed successfully.  Payment was received and confirmed.  Icarus miner was delivered and greaterninja received it (and is happy as far as I know )

sythe3's unit: Trade was completed successfully.  We are used John K for escrow.  John received and confirmed payment.  Icarus miner delivered to scyth3 and he tested it and authorized the release of his payment.  I received the payment from John.   All parties are happy and the escrow process was very smooth.

They appear to be transactions where forrestv consolidated a zillion small inputs into a single larger output (to make them easier to spend in the future).

FYI, if you are writing code to find p2pool blocks, I found that it was much easier to get data from blockchain.info' API in json format than to try to screen scrape the HTML from blockexplorer.

p2pool.info's logic for finding p2pool blocks is:

1. Looks at every new block as it is found and examines the generation transaction and see if a) it has the donation address, b) has the weird script at the end, and c) has at least 25 outputs (this filters out p2pool forks that have only a few people mining on them)

2. Every once in a while looks at all of the transactions for the donation address looking for generation transactions that it doesn't already know about (because they came in way late and are probably orphans.

p2pool nodes only show blocks based on shares in the p2pool share chain.  As a result, blocks that came from stale shares are often missing.

p2pool.info scans the actual bitcoin blockchain and so usually finds all blocks regardless of if they are from stale shares or not.

The servers hosting the site are working fine, but there appear to be some network connectivity problems at least with several major ISPs.  I have been having problems on and off getting to it for the past few days, but http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/p2pool.info generally says that the site is up even when I can't get to it.

People aren't buying icarus miners for the MH/s.  They are buying them because they can be used to cut to the front of the pre-order line for Avalons.

For the purposes of transparency, here is the current status:

greaterninja's unit: Payment was received and confirmed.  Icarus miner was shipped to him this morning.  Tracking number was PMed to greaterninja.

sythe3's unit: We are using John K for escrow.  John received and confirmed payment.  Icarus miner was shipped to sythe3 this morning.  Tracking number was PMed to both sythe3 and John K.

Of course.  To protect us both, it will require an adult signature so that they won't leave it just sitting on your porch, etc.

I see the transaction.  I will ship the FPGA miner tomorrow morning and PM you a tracking number as soon as I have done so.

Nevermind.  We just decided via PM to do escrow via John K, so don't send me BTC to that address

Please send 16.5 BTC to 1tM6dMYy3obQjcjRRBh4UapUMo8qH82my in exchange for an icarus FPGA miner and PM me your shipping address.

Thanks.

Wow, that was fun.

The winners are:

greaterninja: 16.5 for one
scyth3: 16.2 for the other

PM me to arrange details or I am on IRC for the next hour or so if you want to work it out in real time...

Please be clear on if you are bidding for one or both.   Also as a reminder, the auction doesn't end until 15 minutes goes by without any valid bids, so you can feel free to take the time to type out your bid clearly

Current leading bids:

greaterninja: 8.4 for the first unit
scyth3: 8.25 for the other unit

Auction ends in about 7 minutes unless there is another valid bid before 9pm central, 02:00 UTC.

You seem to be under the impression that this service (or other services like it, e.g. bitcoin fog) is not actively being used by people as we speak.  There are plenty of non-criminal paranoid people who value anonymity enough to use and pay for these services.

Roughly, yes.  A little more than 2 hours 40 minutes from this post.

I didn't miss the point.  You claim to be able to track any attempt by the thief to spend these.  This service will easily allow the thief to transfer the coins to an address you won't know about.  Yes, you can still track the coins, but they will have been transfered to some unsuspecting person who is also using this service.  You will no longer be following the thief, and the thief will be free to spend his stolen coins as he sees fit.

0.5% is far less than the fee usually incurred when trying to unload stolen property...