Website down?

I assume like the message says, mining can continue and we'll still get cred?

Which website are you referring to?

The website hosting this very forum where we can check our account progress:

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/

Yeah, that's Slush's pool, he has a thread here, but doesn't host this site.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.6660

His site is down, and shares aren't stored on the database, but he will pay those who carry on mining a share of the blocks solved.

K.

Oh cool, thanks Kruncha. Don't know why I thought he hosted the forums.

Thanks.

I am mining like normal in Slush's pool, is it safe? Should I bother?

I'm also in Slush's pool but hadn't made a forum account yet. It says I'm mining at my normal 91 Mh/s. It doesn't say I'm getting any shares though. It just says Shares: 0 accepted and then occasionally flashes something about no more backup something... With the site and database being all weird, am I still earning shares, or just wasting my time? It should be noted I'm on an alternate server. I can't connect to the main, but others report the alternate working perfectly well. I need to get this fixed ASAP as I'll be gone from tomorrow night until next Monday, and would love to be mining during that time.

This is exactly what I am wondering. Didn't know if I should join an interim pool in the meantime?

What are the fees? And is it legit?

I've had good experiences with bitcoin.cz and Slush's pool. Slush0 seems like a good and honest operator. I'm sticking with bitcoin.cz through the down time. I think he'll be as fair as he can in making it worth our while.

I'm sticking with Slush as well... I just hope he can get it back up by tomorrow. I suppose I could always just hop in a different pool for the week I'll be gone and then move back to Slush's when I have access to my mining computer again.

Everyone mining with Slush, restart your mining clients and make sure the stratum domain resolves to an address in the Amazon cloud. It's 54.214.10.135 when I check here.
Before I restarted mine it still used the old compromized server and we don't want to do the laundry for the bad guys do we?

More info on the attack here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.6660

For those confined to quarters:

Quote from: slush on April 24, 2013, 09:33:17 AM

FYI Pool hashrate is still above 7Thash/s and it reports new blocks normally. Please be patient, I'm working hardly to get website back online.

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Please be patient, I'm working hardly to get website back online.

"Hardly" indeed.

Quote from: DryMartini on April 24, 2013, 08:37:03 AM

Sorry to be a noob, but how do I do that?