Massive LTC DDoS attack on all major pools

[tacotime]

coinotron, litecoinpool, and notroll are all down.

burnside's pool is still up, though.

[CoinHoarder]

LOL taco. I posted a thread at the same exact time!  Great minds think alike!

[smoothie]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

[CoinHoarder]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

Great idea!!!  

I am worried someone is trying to perform a 51% attack on the chain.

[Kanabis]

poolx.eu has been down for days

[Come-from-Beyond]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

Epic Fail. Decentralization is the solution.

[tacotime]

eh, it's not a huge deal.  most of us have enough mh/s to solo mine so a 51% attack is still outrageously hard.

[Brunic]

Yeah, the network is still at 921 MH/s.

There's too much solo miners in LTC, pools are in minority.

[tacotime]

ozcoin down too ;________________;

[SaltySpitoon]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

Great idea!!!  

I am worried someone is trying to perform a 51% attack on the chain.

After the BCX fiasco, new anti 51% attack code was added to LTC, so its much more difficult than just having 51% of the network strength. I don't know, people just seem to get bored and ddos Litecoin pools. Just gotta wait it out.

[bitcool]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

Great idea!!!  

I am worried someone is trying to perform a 51% attack on the chain.

After the BCX fiasco, new anti 51% attack code was added to LTC, so its much more difficult than just having 51% of the network strength. I don't know, people just seem to get bored and ddos Litecoin pools. Just gotta wait it out.

I won't be so sanguine about this, the timing the attacker(s) picked seems to be perfect, just as difficulty overshot and some miners have (temporarily) pulled the plugs:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128346.msg1373028#msg1373028

If the attack fails, it's almost pathetic.

[c4n10]

May I suggest: http://www.incapsula.com/ or http://www.cloudflare.com/

[CoinHoarder]

Yeah, the network is still at 921 MH/s.

There's too much solo miners in LTC, pools are in minority.

I'd be willing to bet the person with a large chunk of that 921Mh is the one doing the Ddos'ing, otherwise what's the point?

I'd guess it's a bot net owner or a group of hackers that run a bot net would make more since. They kill all the big pools, and all the sudden they solve many more blocks.

[smoothie]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

Epic Fail. Decentralization is the solution.

Yeah, adding more pools makes it more decentralized genius.

LOL where do these idiots come from? The SolidcoinTalk forums? MicroRash Forums? 

[c4n10]

Yeah, the network is still at 921 MH/s.

There's too much solo miners in LTC, pools are in minority.

I'd be willing to bet the person with a large chunk of that 921Mh is the one doing the Ddos'ing, otherwise what's the point?

I'd guess it's a bot net owner or a group of hackers that run a bot net would make more since. They kill all the big pools, and all the sudden they solve many more blocks.

More likely a group of hackers who are pushing off as many people as possible so they can initiate double-spend attacks while they hold the majority of the hashing power for the LTC blockchain.

[c4n10]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

The people with "private pools" are the ones committing the DDoS...

[smoothie]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

The people with "private pools" are the ones committing the DDoS...

Proof that there are private pools we do not know about? Oh wait if you had proof they would not be private. LOL!

[CoinHoarder]

A bot net makes more since than a private pool.

The script kiddie bot netters are pretty likely to ddos, because it takes little to no hacking skills (just like bot netting) and they are already involved with "hacking". Although, I really wouldn't call what they do hacking, because an 8 year old could do it.

[Come-from-Beyond]

This is good practice for contingency plans when this happens on a larger scale in the future.

Perhaps make some non-public mining pools. Notify people who are in the community privately and hash away.

Epic Fail. Decentralization is the solution.

Yeah, adding more pools makes it more decentralized genius.

LOL where do these idiots come from? The SolidcoinTalk forums? MicroRash Forums? 

*facepalm*

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

[c4n10]

A bot net makes more since than a private pool.

The script kiddie bot netters are pretty likely to ddos, because it takes little to no hacking skills (just like bot netting.)

The "private pool" was in quotations meaning a group of hackers (or script kiddies, it's all the same from a legal standpoint) who all have a vested interest shutting down the pools temporarily i.e. because they have a large portion of the hashing power and by taking the large pools offline it's enough to be the majority hashing power.

I find it highly unlikely that there is one guy somewhere who has a monster LTC mining rig as well as a monstrous botnet that is so huge he is simultaneously successfully DDoS'ing the 4 largest LTC pools by himself. I am fairly certain there is at least a handful of individuals in on this, i.e. a "private pool" - please note the quotations indicating that the phrase's intent is not to be taken literally but in a subtext.