Nexious.com WARNING POOL OPERATOR IS NOT PAYING NOR RESPONDING

[spiker777]

Well... according to the pool, I found the first block!  WOOT!

Bravo!!!

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[jonnybravo0311]

Just an hour and a half into a 100TH/s rental, I found the first block for nexious.com.  Guess the gamble paid off .  Nexious' first block is 384051.

Hmmm... and now the pool website shows as unavailable.  Well... let's hope that gets sorted quickly.  Miners still show they're hashing away, so it's likely just a front end problem.

EDIT: actually, now the miners are showing the pool as dead.  That's not a good sign.  First block found and the pool's website goes dark and the miners can't connect.

[itsnogood]

Just an hour and a half into a 100TH/s rental, I found the first block for nexious.com.  Guess the gamble paid off .  Nexious' first block is 384051.

Hmmm... and now the pool website shows as unavailable.  Well... let's hope that gets sorted quickly.  Miners still show they're hashing away, so it's likely just a front end problem.

EDIT: actually, now the miners are showing the pool as dead.  That's not a good sign.  First block found and the pool's website goes dark and the miners can't connect.

First let me say WELL DONE, first block to jonnybravo0311.
But... and here comes the downer... What has happened to the web site???

Not sure what to think. I hope this is just another problem with cloudflare and not anything sinister.
update: My miners have failed over as well.

Can others check

[eghigo]

Just an hour and a half into a 100TH/s rental, I found the first block for nexious.com.  Guess the gamble paid off .  Nexious' first block is 384051.

Hmmm... and now the pool website shows as unavailable.  Well... let's hope that gets sorted quickly.  Miners still show they're hashing away, so it's likely just a front end problem.

EDIT: actually, now the miners are showing the pool as dead.  That's not a good sign.  First block found and the pool's website goes dark and the miners can't connect.

First let me say WELL DONE, first block to jonnybravo0311.
But... and here comes the downer... What has happened to the web site???

Not sure what to think. I hope this is just another problem with cloudflare and not anything sinister.
update: My miners have failed over as well.

Can others check

My miners failed over as well. I have a very bad feeling about all this. I really hope I am wrong... 

[jonnybravo0311]

Just to add to the drama - any emails sent to support@nexious.com are getting bounced.

Code:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     support@nexious.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain nexious.com by mxb.mailgun.org. [104.130.177.23].

The error that the other server returned was:
550 5.7.1 Relaying denied

Not sure if that address ever accepted mail in the first place, but since I've received a number of promotional emails from it, I thought I'd try emailing it back.

[eghigo]

Just to add to the drama - any emails sent to support@nexious.com are getting bounced.

Code:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     support@nexious.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain nexious.com by mxb.mailgun.org. [104.130.177.23].

The error that the other server returned was:
550 5.7.1 Relaying denied

Not sure if that address ever accepted mail in the first place, but since I've received a number of promotional emails from it, I thought I'd try emailing it back.

I previously replied to a couple of emails from Nexious and never received such error in return. I guess noone will get anything back from this pool

[itsnogood]

Well its not looking good. 

Come on Nexious prove us wrong.

[jonnybravo0311]

Nobody's present in the IRC channel either: #Nexious

I'm there... some user Torepia and Luke-Jr (not sure if that's the same one as here on the forums, but I doubt it is... why he'd be hanging around in a pool channel).

[BlInK311]

Congrats johnnybravo for the block find!!!  

Hey Nexious, don't make me look like an idiot for trying to support you and your new pool.  Lets get the pool back up and running.  And lets see those payouts!!!  

Woot Woot.

Edit: saving woot woot until payments have been made as suggested by itsnogood

[.anto.]

First of all, congratulation to jonnybravo0311 for finding the first ever block for this pool.

If we kept thinking positive, I think we can assume that the payment to the miners of this pool is being done manually as the transaction only goes to a single address, i.e. 1GBo1f2tzVx5jScV9kJXPUP9RjvYXuNzV7. And as this is a new pool, we can also assume that there is a problem on the setup as the admin has no experience yet in managing the payment. I really hope that is really the case.

On a side note, I am wondering why no pool (as far as I know it) explains in detail on how the payment is actually being done. As far as I know, some pools, e.g. eligius, automatically distribute the coin to the miners. Some pools, e.g. antpool, pay that manually. What is the indication that a pool do it automatically or manually? Is there any information related to this?

[itsnogood]

Congrats johnnybravo for the block find!!! 

Hey Nexious, don't make me look like an idiot for trying to support you and your new pool.  Lets get the pool back up and running.  And lets see those payouts!!! 

Woot Woot.

You might want to save the "Woot Woot" till the payouts been made.

[jonnybravo0311]

Actually most pools work like this one.  The exceptions are p2pool and Eligius where the coinbase transaction is broken down into the addresses receiving the block reward.

The typical operation is for the BTC reward to go to a single address, which in this pool's case is 1GBo1f2tzVx5jScV9kJXPUP9RjvYXuNzV7.  How the coins are distributed depends on the payout scheme.  Here it's PPLNS, which is actually unfortunate because I found the block so quickly after starting, I didn't have many shares to pay.  Those miners who have been here longer and have more shares than I did when the block was found would actually make more BTC than I will.  The nice thing is that those shares are valid for however long the N value is in the pool.

When I found the block, the last time I had looked at the pool stats it showed about a 53% round - which is very nice.  It means that it took about half as many shares as expected to find the block.  That's the benefit of PPLNS pools - the more luck the pool has, the longer your shares continue to get paid.  More blocks, means more BTC for you.

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Very suspicious behaviour, I suspect users should be readying their pitchforks right about now  

[jonnybravo0311]

I'm surprised the torches aren't already lit and the mob already running through the town screaming "Burn the witch!!!"

[philipma1957]

Well... according to the pool, I found the first block!  WOOT!

nice!


so I  get about a 6 usd payout .




https://blockchain.info/address/1GBo1f2tzVx5jScV9kJXPUP9RjvYXuNzV7


I hope  for jonny's sake it all works out.

let us know.

[.anto.]

Actually most pools work like this one.  The exceptions are p2pool and Eligius where the coinbase transaction is broken down into the addresses receiving the block reward.

The typical operation is for the BTC reward to go to a single address, which in this pool's case is 1GBo1f2tzVx5jScV9kJXPUP9RjvYXuNzV7.  How the coins are distributed depends on the payout scheme.  Here it's PPLNS, which is actually unfortunate because I found the block so quickly after starting, I didn't have many shares to pay.  Those miners who have been here longer and have more shares than I did when the block was found would actually make more BTC than I will.  The nice thing is that those shares are valid for however long the N value is in the pool.

When I found the block, the last time I had looked at the pool stats it showed about a 53% round - which is very nice.  It means that it took about half as many shares as expected to find the block.  That's the benefit of PPLNS pools - the more luck the pool has, the longer your shares continue to get paid.  More blocks, means more BTC for you.

Thanks for your explanation. About the N value of this pool, it was mentioned before as below.

Nexious's N value is an average over the last 5 blocks

[bitsolutions]

Sorry for the slight downtime of roughly 15 minutes, I also updated Bitcoin to 0.11.2 and migrated to a more high performance server. Issues seem to be resolved with connectivity with the testing I have done.

Philipma1957 I apologise for the issue should had, I noticed you had the wrong stratum url and yes you need to create workers for your account. I saw that you had 70TH/s so it was mining correctly once you had changed that. You may need to wait 10-15 minutes for your dashboard as it is an average over 24 hours and needs to build up.

I also checked your account and see that it is unlocked now, you also do not need to type your pin in to originally set your BTC address. If you have any more issues or suggestions please don't hesitate to pm me.

Lol, he says he updated Bitcoin to 0.11.2 yet produces a v3 block(0.11.2 produces v4 blocks).

[philipma1957]

jonnybravo0311

 I will mine in your honor for 24 hours if this is a bust for you.



http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje

sad part is if he is a runner it only helps pools like f2pool grow larger.

[jacobmayes94]

wait... was he hoping someone hit and then run off with the 25BTC? Curious... I was gonna try my solo set up on this but I decided not to, glad...
Jacob

[jonnybravo0311]

Thanks, Phil.  I'll let everyone know if this works out or not.  Since everything is still dark, I'm not sure it will.  Nexious has sure put a lot of effort in to this thing if it does indeed turn out to be bad and he runs.  I'm certainly giving him the benefit of the doubt for now.  Innocent until proven guilty, and all that.

If it doesn't work out, maybe I'll open up my own pool (I already run my own p2pool node and have a private unomp BTC pool that a couple of friends point hash to).