4000 BTC stolen....
thousands of new miners on the site; and im going to be leaving for the mountains to work for a week :/
what timing.....
Still speechless.
It was only a matter of time based on the price of 1 bitcoin, got to keep those private keys 'private' and any passwords out of reach.
I hope the site here (zpool) is secure.
zpool is secure as it can be. I dont see much $ in the hot wallet(s) I get paid from when I do personal checks now and then.
the most insecure parts of zpool are: public wallet/mining availability to view, and other people mining to your wallet address...... I can't think of much else past the hot wallet, and the exchanges the pool uses....
so you saying i lost 14 k of coin becouse you wallet is on a fork how then you just pay me 0.39273221 octo and all the rest not
Did you notice the profit on that coin mysteriously skyrocket out of nowhere, not matching the exchanges prices rocket at the same time? Anytime I see this I report it to the pool... because its usually a sign of something not being right. Every now and then there's a crazy exchange buy price and you see the gigantic jumps.... But if the amount of blocks found each day multiplies by 2-5x+, and your profitability jumps by the same; then something is definitely not right. Profitability doesn't change in the 100's+ of percent overnight.....
Wallets fork. Its a fact of life in the altcoin world.
Let me elaborate a little:
Who would you get your "approximate" funds from if your own wallet you mine to forks and the same happens? Nobody; because the generated funds don't exist. Those TX's apparently were on a forked chain; and I bet they were the only forked TX's at the end of that chain....
What could have caused this fork? Hrm, the most obvious guess would be that a large farm from NH went to another pool, or their own wallet and basically achieved something similar to a 50% attack.... This is one guess of many out there.....
Now; I know it sucks mining to a wallet that was on a fork... but honestly, look at how many coins are on this site. crackfoo is the admin. He handles all of it as far as I know by himself. He tends to catch forks relatively quickly... but he can only do so much at once and have his focus on one coin/issue at a time... even when there are no apparent issues his focus can be rather limited with so much to handle. Its especially harder to catch a forked wallet than it is to catch a wallet that is offline/no nodes.... harder by a large factor comparatively.
This is one of the things that can happen, and if you feel it was not handled to your liking, to set up a wallet of your own, sync a blockchain, and mine directly to that.... then it would be in your hands and not relying on another service.... Its always an option if you think you can do it/handle it better/faster.
I hope this helped explain the details.... and not dissuade you from this service that usually goes relatively smooth.
