Just checked again and everything is back to normal. Thanks for the quick response 

Anyone else having trouble viewing all their info on their 'MY ACCOUNT' page on deepbit? When I go there I get the news listing on the left and the last few work units in the CENTER (instead of on the right) and all my details are missing (email, balance, send to address, workers, etc). I've tried several different web browsers and the result is the same. All the other pages look correct, it's just the 'MY ACCOUNT' page that's not right.

There are 9 routers down or diminished in North America right now which could explain the connection problems that people have been seeing for the last 8 hours or so.

http://internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

That's because of the score based system they use at that pool. The newer a share is, the more it is worth. The older a share is, the less it is worth. On long rounds, old shares can become worth very little (or even worthless).

Fixed that for you 

Same here. The last 5 days have been very consistent but today is down about 1/3  Too many evil 2+ hour block sucking out all our luck 
 

After a few days of insanity (doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result  ) I fixed the 'problem'. It turns out that my Linksys router was lying to me. All the port forwarding info looked correct and showed as being enabled when logged into the router, but it really wasn't. I unplugged the router for several minutes, and then did a reset on it. After entering the port forwarding information back into it everything now works. Block chain is up to date now and I'm up to 20 connections and growing. Linksys routers are nice and easy to use, I just wish that they weren't so flaky 

And 0.3.22, but this is Linux so nothing is actually installed as you would think of it as under Windows. The files just live in their own directories in my home directory. But, for obvious reasons, only one can be run at a time. Right now I'm fighting to get port 8333 open  My router says that 8333 is open and my software firewall says that 8333 is open but several port checker websites are telling me that 8333 is closed (and still just 8 connections). Someone is lying to me 

Saw the message a few days ago in the other area of the board to update all the old clients, and got the new version. I'm running Debian (squeeze) and with prior versions (0.3.22 and 0.3.23) I would have 10 to 20 connections within several minutes of client start-up and would settle in to 30 to 60 connections average. I even hit 100 connections, once and briefly. With the new client, 0.3.24, I can't get over 8 connections. I even created a bitcoin.conf file and gave it a maxconnections=64 (yes, I restarted the client) and still max out at 8 connections.

Every client version (22, 23, & 24) was unpacked to its own directory but all used .bitcoin as the data directory.

More weirdness: i just shut down 24 and started 23 back up and that is now not going over 8 connections? Did something change somewhere?

Is it aliens?  

We need a congress critter to come back out and start making bullshit, fear-mongering statements to send the price back up to $25 

While it may be very simple to send Bitcoins to anyone anywhere (as long as they have a Bitcoin address AND you already have the Bitcoins in your wallet), it's a whole 'nother matter to start the process from cash in hand.

Cash in hand > bank > dwolla > MTG/TH > personal wallet > other person

A real big pain in the ass chain that can take as long as a week to get through and has several fees along the way. The entire process needs to become faster, cheaper, and more user friendly. Hell, just for the bank to dwolla part my bank wants:

- $3 to transfer in three business days
- $10 for next business day
- afraid to even list price for same business day

As long as the money is in my account, WTF should this even take more than a few hours? It's a routine, AUTOMATED transfer by the banks computers, no human even needed. No need to delay or charge high fees although you might end up with next day instead of same day if you transfer late in the day or after hours. Sending a money order directly to MTG/TH would both speed up the process and make it cheaper BUT that's a meatspace work-around to a digitalspace problem.

I'm starting to rant so I'll just stop here 

Looks like the plan is starting to come together for you. Good luck 

Not a problem, just throwing something against the wall. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it doesn't 

IRT stales: running a stale rate of only 0.226% here so very good job on whatever you're doing 

Been thinking on the pool hopper problem and came up with a few thoughts.

Why not just award shares to miners that mined for more than 50% of the block? During short blocks they don't hop away anyway, so there is no bad effect there. For slightly longer rounds, they are there for the majority of the round, so they have 'earned' their reward. The real problem is the longer rounds where they mine for 10 to 15 minutes and then leave. By the time an hour long block finishes, they are long gone. BUT, if you require a 50%+ participation in the block then it wouldn't matter. Their shares would simply be forfeit to those that stayed and mined the entire block, essentially they did free work for the pool.

This wouldn't even need to be calculated for every block, just those to run longer than average hopping time (20 min?). Also no need to play with delayed stats or other masking. Like they say in the lottery: You have to be in it to win it. Or in our case: You have to stay to get the pay 

Several different comments:

1. Since coffee is really a personal taste type thing, perhaps you should offer a sample pack? You have five different coffees listed so five small foil packs of 40g each, one for each blend, for .6 BTC + shipping? That's enough to make one press (about 4 cups) of each type to sample. Just a thought.

2. Not to pick on you specifically but Bitcoin is something that's suppose to be a worldwide type thing. While adding more merchants that take Bitcoin is nice, it kinda defeats part of the purpose if everyone is going "We accept Bitcoins, but we only ship to Canada/EU/US/Japan/somewhere." If someone is willing to pay the shipping, I don't see the problem in selling them whatever is for sale. Granted that they might end up paying 10 Bitcoins in shipping a 2 Bitcoin item, but that should be left up to the buyer. Give fair warning, then let them do what they want.

I like my Eight O'Clock Original Roast 

Bitcoins are the wrong thing for that. If you want a house you need to start with a red paperclip instead 

Thanks for all the hard work 

In order for you to do testing and track down the problem I think we need to find a block once every 5 minutes for the next hour. Think that should give you some good testing data 

Well as long as everyone is making requests, I may as well make a few myself 

- once you put in your api key, how about an option to automatically update your balance periodically? Nothing too often that might bother the servers if everyone decides to do it. Say, auto update once every half hour?

- a clear button on the console tab. I really don't need to scroll back several days.

- a clear stats button that resets the found/stales numbers back to zero. Useful for testing.

The second two can already be done by shutting down and restarting the client but that's such a messy way of doing things.

Then you can get to work on giving us all cool looking UI skins 

Eleuthria quick question for you: When this is all over, what addresses(s) would you prefer that we aim out miners at?

I don't think that 'almost impossible' or 'virtually impossible' are high enough standards. The 'impossible' happens with quite regular frequency. Every week something 'impossible' ends up in the news: someone gets struck by lightning for the fifth time, someone wins the jackpot on a lottery for a second time, someone shoots a basket from half-court during a basketball game, etc. With enough Bitcoin clients running and generating addresses during the normal course of transactions it's just a matter of time before some monkey pounding on a keyboard comes up with "To be, or not to be". The only real protection (if you want to call it such) is to have many addresses in your wallet with all your Bitcoins spread among them. If/when an address is compromised you will potentially lose a little rather than everything.