[MOD EDIT: SCAM] solo.mining-pool

[chillfactr]

Does anybody know who's running this solo pool?  
solo.mining-pool.io
This is a scam pool.  No way in hell are you soloing there.

[d57heinz]

Does anybody know who's running this solo pool?  
solo.mining-pool.io

No but if what I'm reading in ck solo thread is true. You weren't solo mining at all.  He is stealing your hashes and pointing them to fupool with ck proxy software.  Looks like you have been scammed. If you want to mine solo. You should be on solo.ck. And btw I found both blocks back in early October with two dif s9. Also one has no advantage to withhold on a pool that doesn't share rewards. 

i wonder why there isn't a mega solo pool. Min to join is 6th on single connection.  Imagine how many solo winners there would be with 300 ph.  Maybe that would be a great promotion for a pool. One day out of week swap to solo and take a chance with all pool hashrate. Could help a lot of small miners out tremendously

Best Regards
D57heinz

[chillfactr]

Does anybody know who's running this solo pool?  
solo.mining-pool.io

No but if what I'm reading in ck solo thread is true. You weren't solo mining at all.  He is stealing your hashes and pointing them to fupool with ck proxy software.  Looks like you have been scammed. If you want to mine solo. You should be on solo.ck. And btw I found both blocks back in early October with two dif s9. Also one has no advantage to withhold on a pool that doesn't share rewards. 

i wonder why there isn't a mega solo pool. Min to join is 6th on single connection.  Imagine how many solo winners there would be with 300 ph.  Maybe that would be a great promotion for a pool. One day out of week swap to solo and take a chance with all pool hashrate. Could help a lot of small miners out tremendously

Best Regards
D57heinz

Yes I was scammed.  After my discussion with Kano I see what went on.    I do solo mine at cksolo. But because of recent poor shares from my miners. I solo hopped. But I found that scam site and immediately was hitting good shares,  so I mined there about 3 days and hit that block.  Back at cksolo now.
Thanx for the info D57heinz

[d57heinz]

YW. Sorry for your loss. Great you realized it when ya did. Also getting this out there will help that no one else falls for them. They have some interesting ideals at the bottom of the page too bad they only using it to scam!

Best Regards
d57heinz

[bitsolutions]

Stratum decode indicates solo.mining-pool.io:3333 is proxy mining to username "zhangjia90" on f2pool. Maybe you can contact f2pool for more information about them.

[kano]

Stratum decode indicates solo.mining-pool.io:3333 is proxy mining to username "zhangjia90" on f2pool. Maybe you can contact f2pool for more information about them.

Not when he found the block ... as I said in the other thread,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.msg16829020#msg16829020
the user name (obvious in the coinbase) was xinxan

[bitsolutions]

Stratum decode indicates solo.mining-pool.io:3333 is proxy mining to username "zhangjia90" on f2pool. Maybe you can contact f2pool for more information about them.

Not when he found the block ... as I said in the other thread,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.msg16829020#msg16829020
the user name (obvious in the coinbase) was xinxan

Yep coinbase sig is what I'm looking at from the stratum decode, so guess he must have changed the username to try and hide.

Coinbase Sig Decode from stratum:

Code:

7七彩神仙鱼}ϲ_L_;__ǩ*_gv#2__2_0___/_KS_f_____🐟_Mined by zhangjia90____________________

[jonnybravo0311]

Stratum decode indicates solo.mining-pool.io:3333 is proxy mining to username "zhangjia90" on f2pool. Maybe you can contact f2pool for more information about them.

Not when he found the block ... as I said in the other thread,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.msg16829020#msg16829020
the user name (obvious in the coinbase) was xinxan

Yep coinbase sig is what I'm looking at from the stratum decode, so guess he must have changed the username to try and hide.

Coinbase Sig Decode from stratum:

Code:

7七彩神仙鱼}ϲ_L_;__ǩ*_gv#2__2_0___/_KS_f_____🐟_Mined by zhangjia90____________________

You are looking at the wrong block.  Block 437887 clearly has the following coinbase signature:

Code:

®7七彩神仙鱼U�� Q#úŒHr¤_¸`ë,¾ô~­qù1à)Í-ü	ðŸ�ŸMined by xinxan

[bitsolutions]

You are looking at the wrong block.  Block 437887 clearly has the following coinbase signature:

No, I'm not looking at the block at all, I'm looking at the coinbase sig given by his stratum server.

[jonnybravo0311]

Ahh-Hah!!!  That's where I misunderstood you

Thanks for clearing it up!

[bitsolutions]

This guy is being pretty obvious about what he's doing.

He has a repo on github with the proxy code. The github account is the same name as the listed pool operator at the bottom of the pool page.

php-proxy-stratum

ReactPHP stratum+tcp proxy between miners and pools with database and minimal web interface.

Used to demostrate how pools steal your hash by renaming worker names and redirecting the hashrate.

Used² to recommend you to mine only on trusted (self owned!) pools.

[d57heinz]

This guy is being pretty obvious about what he's doing.

He has a repo on github with the proxy code. The github account is the same name as the listed pool operator at the bottom of the pool page.

php-proxy-stratum

ReactPHP stratum+tcp proxy between miners and pools with database and minimal web interface.

Used to demostrate how pools steal your hash by renaming worker names and redirecting the hashrate.

Used² to recommend you to mine only on trusted (self owned!) pools.

Well shit if that's the case then why is it not on top line in red on first page.  Seems like a funny way to scam someone   In the end he is still a scammer we have plenty of examples of scammers without his "help"

[kano]

Well since it's the same domain I'm presuming it's the same person.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1667999.0

So contact him and tell him to give you 12.5 BTC

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=561397

Edit: as per the earlier comment, his bitbucket account is:
https://bitbucket.org/ctubio/

Edit2: and just for the record, right now (all simple publicly available commands)

Code:

# host solo.mining-pool.io
solo.mining-pool.io has address 208.113.128.181
solo.mining-pool.io has IPv6 address 2607:f298:5:101d:f816:3eff:fe10:fa45

# host btc.mining-pool.io
btc.mining-pool.io has address 208.113.128.181
btc.mining-pool.io has IPv6 address 2607:f298:5:101d:f816:3eff:fe10:fa45

# host stratum.mining-pool.io
stratum.mining-pool.io has address 208.113.128.6
stratum.mining-pool.io has IPv6 address 2607:f298:5:101d:f816:3eff:fefc:987a

# host 208.113.128.181
181.128.113.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ia-tub.io.

# host 208.113.128.6
6.128.113.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer apache2-grog.granola.dreamhost.com.

... and the public IO domain web page http://www.nic.io/cgi-bin/whois?DOMAIN=ia-tub.io

Code:

Domain Information
Domain Handle : 	DOM-295567
Domain Name : 	ia-tub.io
Domain Status : 	Live
First Registered : 	2015-05-31
Last Updated : 	2016-10-25
Expiry : 	2018-05-31 ... Redemption Grace Period Ends, 2018-08-30 00:30
Back-order : 	Available ... Purchase a Back-Order ... (What is a back-order?)

Domain Owner
User ID : 	NIC-1484841
Contact Name : 	Carles Tubio
Organization Name : 	
Street : 	ERROR: CATALONIA IS NOT SPAIN.
City : 	Barcelona
State : 	B
Postal Code : 	08011
Country: 	ES

(All) Contacts
User ID : 	NIC-1494092
Contact Name : 	Carles Tubio Terron
Organization Name : 	Carles Tubio Terron
Street : 	Aragon 189 1er 2na
City : 	Barcelona
State : 	Catalunya
Postal Code : 	08011
Country: 	ES

... and the public IO domain web page http://www.nic.io/cgi-bin/whois?DOMAIN=mining-pool.io

Code:

Domain Information
Domain Handle : 	DOM-359842
Domain Name : 	mining-pool.io
Domain Status : 	Live
First Registered : 	2016-01-04
Last Updated : 	2016-10-25
Expiry : 	2018-01-04 ... Redemption Grace Period Ends, 2018-04-05 00:30
Back-order : 	Available ... Purchase a Back-Order ... (What is a back-order?)

Domain Owner
User ID : 	NIC-1484847
Contact Name : 	Carles Tubio
Organization Name : 	
Street : 	ERROR: CATALONIA IS NOT SPAIN.
City : 	Barcelona
State : 	B
Postal Code : 	08011
Country: 	ES

(All) Contacts
User ID : 	NIC-1494092
Contact Name : 	Carles Tubio Terron
Organization Name : 	Carles Tubio Terron
Street : 	Aragon 189 1er 2na
City : 	Barcelona
State : 	Catalunya
Postal Code : 	08011
Country: 	ES

[analpaper]

Hello im Carles Tubio (admin of solo.mining-pool.io),

issue saddly confirmed, im taking down the solo pool NOW and will investigate the issue this weekend.

will post soon at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1675588.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg16840084#msg16840084

Thank you for the private message organofcorti !

[d57heinz]

Hello im Carles Tubio (admin of solo.mining-pool.io),

issue saddly confirmed, im taking down the solo pool NOW and will investigate the issue this weekend.

will post soon at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1675588.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg16840084#msg16840084

Thank you for the private message organofcorti !

nothing to investigate but yourself?  Maybe that will help you to understand why you thought this was ok


BR

[Bitspenser]

Hello im Carles Tubio (admin of solo.mining-pool.io),

issue saddly confirmed, im taking down the solo pool NOW and will investigate the issue this weekend.

will post soon at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1675588.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg16840084#msg16840084

Thank you for the private message organofcorti !

Not sure why your acting like it wasn't your fault? It was your code, and you purposely had it to mine for you, and were probably hoping that you would have never found a block on your "pool". If you want to resolve things, pay up the ~12.5BTC you owe to the guy that found the block.

[analpaper]

Hello im Carles Tubio (admin of solo.mining-pool.io),

issue saddly confirmed, im taking down the solo pool NOW and will investigate the issue this weekend.

will post soon at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1675588.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg16840084#msg16840084

Thank you for the private message organofcorti !

Not sure why your acting like it wasn't your fault? It was your code, and you purposely had it to mine for you, and were probably hoping that you would have never found a block on your "pool". If you want to resolve things, pay up the ~12.5BTC you owe to the guy that found the block.

my reply at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1667999