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I've been mining on EclipseMC for a couple of weeks and had accumulated about 0.42 BTC. I had my account set up to auto-payout at .51, but for some reason, this morning, the 0.42 balance was manually paid out... somewhere. It was not sent to the address I created for this pool and has not been deposited in my wallet. I suspect my account was hacked and I've lost those coins. My fault, I suppose, since I did not configure the account with 2-factor Google Auth, but I'm more than a little pissed off. I tried logging into the forums at BFL to report this, and I registered for a forum account, but I never received any authorization message in my Yahoo mail account after registering. I can now get into the forums and read posts, but cannot create any new posts since I have not confirmed my account by responding to the message that I never received. I assume I will never get those 0.42 BTC back, but just want to warn everyone here that EclipseMC is not a safe place to mine, unless you have a Yubi key or configure Google Auth to protect yourself  . Mode note: updated title to make more clear. |
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Is there any information about how this attack was perpetrated? Due to the "forgot my password" being hacked, I'm assuming OP was hacked through e-mail, but I'm not sure. Thoughts?
I agree that this would provide others with valuable information. Considering what happened in the forums last month, no one is safe from scoundrels on the internet and we can all learn a valuable lesson from this incident. But the happy ending of this event proves to me that this community is astoundingly honest and helpful to folks who need assistance with security. The whitehat hacked the account from the blackhat because s/he knew the vulnerability that was exploited, and went to great lengths to determine that TheRealJonnySmithers was the genuine victim and helped him regain control of his original account (and very likely included lots of great advice in the message transmitted with the new password). S/He earned a decent tip not only for the de-tech-tive work, but also for his/her admirable virtue and honesty. If s/he can provide us with details about the hack and how to safeguard our own accounts, I'd gladly tip the mysterious stranger. This renews my faith in the humanity and kindness of the bitcoin community and the kind of world we're trying to create with the help of this amazing technology. |
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Right now, FPGA miners are more efficient than GPU miners and use much less power, but only a few perform significantly better at hashing than the less expensive GPUs. It comes down to how much you pay for electricity vs. how profitable you can mine with an FPGA.
I'm confident that ASICs will ship...eventually. And once they come on line, then the FPGA miners will be no more profitable than the GPU miners. I'm patient enough to wait it out.
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Updated to cgminer 2.10.3 and now all is stable! No more "SICK" shares, and no re-starts needed! Thanks a million ckolivas!!
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I've got the latest cgminer (2.9.6) and in many different machines with different cards it crashes randomly every 24-48 h or so... so there is a problem there. This never happened with the good old 2.4.x ones..
I am using cgminer 2.10.1 and am having exactly the same problem, only mine crashes after about 2 hours an I have to re-start it. I never had this problem before when using the Phoenix miner, which was rock solid, but when the two pools I use encouraged miners to switch to the stratum protocol, it only made sense to change miners, but I am very frustrated with cgminer due to this instability. |
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I would suggest getting a more powerful ATI Radeon GPU, but that really won't be worth the effort now that the BTC reward has been sliced in half. You'd be better off investing in an FPGA miner or one of the upcoming ASIC mining devices. You can connect these to your computer and mine much more efficiently than with a GPU. I'm currently mining with four GPU rigs and the payout is miniscule. Before "halving day" (November 28), I was earning about 0.3 BTC every 24 hours, but now I don't generate more than .13 BTC in the same period.
I have pre-ordered a Butterfly Labs Jalapeno ASIC miner that I hope will arrive in January 2013, but until then, I have to be content with very small payouts and am looking to sell my graphics cards when the Jalapeno finally arrives (if it ever does).
Good luck and good mining!
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When ASICs start shipping try picking up an FPGA miner cheap.
Any estimates on shipping date? Plenty of threads dedicated to speculating on that one. Yea, I don't know either. Happy Halving Day Everyone! The latest post from Josh at BFL suggests that FPGAs are still shipping, but the ASIC devices (Single, MiniRig, Jalapeno, etc.) probably won't be out the door until the week of December 11 (optimistically reported). He says the pre-orders dating from June 2012 will be shipped first. I pre-ordered in September, so I don't know when my will arrive. |
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DoS attacks are really easy against Tor hidden services. The service can't block the attacker because all clients are anonymous. Tor hidden service introduction points can sometimes also be DoS-attacked. I wouldn't use Tor to run a site like this.
what would you use to run a site like that? I'd use i2p if Tor was compromised. Setting up i2p is only a little more challenging than downloading Tor tools, since these are usually pre-configured for the user. I2P requires some study to understand how it works and how to use it, and a lot of i2p services are hacked together from different projects, so they take some effort to learn how to use them effectively. This can also make i2p seem significantly more secure, so it seems like a logical place to launch a service similar to SR. Getting vendors to sign on to an eepsite instead of an onion website is the real challenge, but when there is a market niche to fill, smart entrepreneurs will step up to the challenge. |
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Boy, you all just got trolled hard.
I'm not trolling. This is serious debate, which is actualy not started by me, but ckolivas looking down on me. I just countered with truth. The fact remains none of you really know ckolivas. The fact remains all he needs to do to steal countless wallets in future is to deploy payload which can do theft in some future upgrade of his miner. Your anti-virus software won't even notice, since you have his miner on exclusion list for years now, and possibly even forgot about it all. But it won't happen, right? "He is a very nice guy, and you are stupid!" If you think it would be first time in history that people got scammed by someone who built trust with community-dedicated hard work over prolonged period of time, than you're really dumb. Those who didn't learn from past mistakes are destined to repeat them.Why the hell do you need anti-virus software? You're not stupid enough to keep your wallet on a Windows box are you? |
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I was kinda hoping this project would succeed, but I didn't have any cash to send their way. Side note: I find it funny that no one gives two shits about sending almost a million dollars to fund a startup company for computer hardware that could not be delivered for quite some time.  Kickstarter has some interesting policies. You must remember that until the funding goal is reached, all those numbers are just pledges. The total does not represent money in the bank. If the project does not meet the funding target, no one loses any money, since they haven't spent a penny (they've only pledged funds to the organizers). If the project meets its funding goal, then the money is made available to the developers (less a percentage kept by Kickstarter). Should the product fail to ship, then the investors lose their funds. If the product ships, however late, the investors still get something for their trouble. |
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Thanks so much for the report and links. I wanted to go to Libertopia this year, but had to work last weekend.
I hope there is still interest among the community for a vendor table and presentation at the California Libertarian Party Convention in Sacramento next March. I'd like to promote Bitcoin to the target audience and show people how to use this fantastic/disruptive technology.
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Thanks everyone! Everyone's reply was very helpful. While I knew the coins didn't actually get stored inside the .dat file, I was still very unware of how the mechanics worked. Thank for answering all my questions there!  The wallet is fairly new. Its only been on my main computer since I started it. I've encrypted it, and have a great system in place to reference my pass-phrase. As for the idea of using different wallets per PC/Laptop, I like that idea, but I can also see it causing confusion later down the road. Maybe in 6 months or so. Get my .dat files mixed up or something. It would be easy to just uses different media sources per backup, but it still could cause simple user error in the long haul. Though, I think when dealing with something like this I would be extra careful, but I still can't always fore see simple user error in the future. For now. Keeping it as simple, and as linear as possible is a plus too me . I will just keep my 1 wallet, and lock that baby down Keep a daily backup, and a weekly one that never leaves my house. Again, thank you all for the very helpful information! Very appreciated!! -Ryan I install the bitcoin client on every computer I use (except for my work machines, which don't belong to me), and routinely transfer funds between them. That way, I distribute my risk around multiple points of failure, so I can never lose my BTC. And I always backup the wallets on each machine to both an external storage device and cloud storage, so if one or more machines die for any reason, I can restore the wallet to a different client. Of course, all wallets are encrypted, so if any copy is stolen, the thief will find it worthless. |
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For me it is 0.3.21
Pros:
+ No forced transaction fees for tx over 0.01
+ Nice looking GUI
+ CPU and room heating feature a.k.a CPU mining is still there
Cons:
- rare DoS vulnerability
- rare bugs causing application to hang
- longer initial blockchain download
Using 0.4.1 right now but it sucks, it forces to add tx fee when sending new coins. Tx fee are bad when you are playing satoshi dice.
Does that version have the wallet encryption feature? If not, how do you encrypt your wallet? And why in the world would you need the CPU Mining option? How many decades do you expect to wait to mine 0.00000001 BTC with CPU hashing power?  |
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I just decided to put in my pre-order for the Jalapeno this morning. The other miner I was looking at was the BTCFPGA ModMiner, but the Jalapeno beats it hands down on price as well as performance, if the Butterfly Labs website is accurate. My five GPUs are working very hard for meager payouts right now, and will be even less productive in a few months, so I'm looking to the future with this, and hope BFL can truly deliver. Hell, since they're so close (couple hundred miles), I might want to take a day or two off work to drive over there to Kansas City and look at their facility.
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Agreed. It shouldn't matter what platform you use, Windows or Linux, as long as you can squeeze at least 600Mh/sec out of your twin 5830s you should be able to cover your electricity costs and then some (depending on how much your utility screws you for power).
A word of caution, however; make sure you have a power supply that can handle what those two cards will draw, and that you don't have too many other peripherals to run at the same time. If you use Windows, run msconfig and turn off all unnecessary services and processes you really don't need to run while mining (e.g., print spooler, volume shadow copies, bluetooth, Windows themes, etc.). I have blown a power supply by over-stressing my system, and you don't want to risk damaging your hardware that way. I now have a 750W PS so I shouldn't have to worry about that any longer, but my old 400W power supply is now in the hardware graveyard, thanks to overclocking my 5850.
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If you have an account and don't want to comply with their bullshit verification, contact support and ask for it to be deleted. They should feel some pain from this new policy.
except that, IIRC, your account won't actually be deleted for a very long time. They offered to suspend my account, I told them to permanently delete all data that they are not required by law to retain. They still haven't responded. I tried deleting my Dwolla account right after TradeHill went down, but couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do this. I posted a question on their Facebook page asking how one goes about deleting/cancelling a Dwolla account, but it was never answered. So if I understand you correctly, you have to contact their customer support to ask for your account to be deleted? Wouldn't it automatically be disabled if you haven't used it in more than 30 days? |
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If you don't like this, cancel your account today, right now.
I just confirmed with Dwolla support that all 4 steps are now a requirement before sending money to MtGox.
- The 30 bank transfer history I have no problem with.
- Accessing my Facebook and Social Security number is an unnecessary invasion of my privacy that I will not tolerate, and is the main reason I am cancelling my account.
- The fact that they are up-selling their new Hub Pages product is repugnant, particularly that it is a requirement before you can send money to certain people.
If you have an account and don't want to comply with their bullshit verification, contact support and ask for it to be deleted. They should feel some pain from this new policy.
I tried deleting my Dwolla account right after TradeHill went down, but couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do this. I posted a question on their Facebook page asking how one goes about deleting/cancelling a Dwolla account, but it was never answered. So if I understand you correctly, you have to contact their customer support to ask for your account to be deleted? Wouldn't it automatically be disabled if you haven't used it in more than 30 days? |
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Well, shoot, if it's only $400-$1500 for a booth you might actually find enough interest to make it worth while. Mike Caldwell or MemoryDealers should honestly go and set up a booth and sell coins, I'm pretty sure they could recoop the costs of a booth pretty easily. A greater concern might be security at an event like that. You could probably sell a few thousand BTC in one weekend though. Especially physical coin. There were at least a few thousand in attendance at the 2008 convention, and every single one of them would be interested in a decentralized currency for sure. Most of them will have probably heard of it, too, so you could just put up a sign saying "Physical Bitcoins Sold Here" and they'd sell themselves.
Actually, just thinking about this is making me want to buy Bitcoin ahead of time since Caldwell or MemoryDealers would eventually have to restock.
I know some folks on the committee organising the 2013 Libertarian Party of California's convention, and they put out a call last week for vendors interested in exhibiting at that event (probably to be held in March or April of 2013 in Sacramento). I'd love to see BTC represented (and traded and promoted) at an LP event. |
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I'm just not sure why some people are so set on PayPal.
An alternative that's more generally accepted is Dwolla (or depending on where you have your checking account there are other alternatives).
Dwolla is NOT a solution to the PayPal issue, it is simply another part of the problem. Dwolla is responsible for the closing of TradeHill, (the second largest exchange after Mt. Gox) which has now sued Dwolla for revoking hundreds of thousands of dollars from TradeHill's account. Before TradeHill closed, they refunded all bitcoins to their users, so no TradeHill customers lost anything, but TradeHill lost EVERYTHING because of Dwolla's rescinding their "no chargeback" policy. Dwolla then modified their website after the fact to allow chargebacks (which they had earlier proudly proclaimed they would never use). I closed my Dwolla account and will never use them again. I suggest you do the same. Dwolla owes their success to Bitcoin, but now they've turned on us and made it far riskier to run an exchange. You may notice that several exchanges are no longer using Dwolla because of what happened to TradeHill. |
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