[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool

[Moria843]

Never seen so many blocks solved overnight - 15!!

[spazzdla]

Humz.. I don't see where we can opt in or out of XT..

[TheRealSteve]

Humz.. I don't see where we can opt in or out of XT..

If you mean BIP101, see: https://mining.bitcoin.cz/help/#!/get-started/getting_started
( tl;dr: if you didn't change anything, you're still adding hash rate for regular (non-BIP101) blocks )

[pekatete]

Was that a server outage? Seems like all my rigs were knocked off port 3301 and could not fail over to the standard port 3333.
And the pool hashrate also dropped to < 20PH from > 30PH. Does not make sense with the fabulous luck we've had last few days ....

[btiAndy]

Was that a server outage? Seems like all my rigs were knocked off port 3301 and could not fail over to the standard port 3333.
And the pool hashrate also dropped to < 20PH from > 30PH. Does not make sense with the fabulous luck we've had last few days ....

Is it possible everyone is bailing now because the no-fee August is over? I cannot stay connected for any period of time, keeps saying that I am losing shares because there is no response from stratum pool?

[edonkey]

Was that a server outage? Seems like all my rigs were knocked off port 3301 and could not fail over to the standard port 3333.
And the pool hashrate also dropped to < 20PH from > 30PH. Does not make sense with the fabulous luck we've had last few days ....

Same is happening to me. I'm in the US on the West coast.

Started getting warning emails at 4:25 PM PDT. Came back on at 4:41, then off again at 4:55.

Must be a problem with slush's servers.

Or an denial of service attack. I have no evidence of that. Just a guess.

[Darthswan]

Something happened here.  Miners went to back up pool.  Scoring rate isn't back to where it was prior to all of them being kicked off.  Keeping an eye on it.

[pekatete]

Either slush fidgeting with the pool, AWS is having issues or pool is under attack.
Connections are very intermitent on port 3301 resulting in lots of stales when connection resumes .... I had port 3333 of the main stratum url as first backup but that on most of my rigs is now being reported as Dead ..... ! Nothing on FB yet either from slush ...

[flikflak]

Antminer S7's gonna change the world. Ordering 10.

It will change a lot in making profits again. But I dont think, its going to have a huge impact regarding to the raising difficulty. Lets say they can sell 10'000 units ($23m ) by the end of year 2015 then the global hashrate will be +11% in December -> I think everybody would have expected that even without the S7.

We will see.

PS: Hashes were nearly down to 0, but its up again. Maybe the big whale is gone and the rest had to cover its exponential decreasing revenue.

Edit: Well, on my second thought that cant be possible, because the scoring hashrate should just equalize slowly.

[edonkey]

Either slush fidgeting with the pool, AWS is having issues or pool is under attack.
Connections are very intermitent on port 3301 resulting in lots of stales when connection resumes .... I had port 3333 of the main stratum url as first backup but that on most of my rigs is now being reported as Dead ..... ! Nothing on FB yet either from slush ...

I'm manually pointing my miners elsewhere until this gets hashed out.

It would be nice to hear something from "our captain" on the FB page...

[Darthswan]

Everything seems to be okay.  I powered them down and they are back up and running.  Just waiting for that scoring hash to get back right.

[pekatete]

Either slush fidgeting with the pool, AWS is having issues or pool is under attack.
Connections are very intermitent on port 3301 resulting in lots of stales when connection resumes .... I had port 3333 of the main stratum url as first backup but that on most of my rigs is now being reported as Dead ..... ! Nothing on FB yet either from slush ...

I'm manually pointing my miners elsewhere until this gets hashed out.

It would be nice to hear something from "our captain" on the FB page...

Looks like its settled down now .... but yeah, would be nice to hear what (if any) the issue was. Really strange that as slush has always been a steady pool connection-wise.

[edonkey]

Looks like its settled down now .... but yeah, would be nice to hear what (if any) the issue was. Really strange that as slush has always been a steady pool connection-wise.

The Facebook page has indicated that it was a DDoS attack (as we guessed), with a second wave four hours ago.

My miners saw a few more hiccups last night and early this morning. At the moment the pool appears dead again, so we're not out of this yet.

I hate DDoSers. They should take their talents and apply them to constructive ways to make money instead of lame ass shake downs.

Also, you would think that if you wanted to hold a pool for ransom, you'd do it earlier in the no fee promotion, not on the last day.

So in addition to being lazy and evil, they're also stupid.

[carlosmnk]

Could be a fight against "classic nodes?"

[flikflak]

thanks edonkey. Im not at home atm and the pool still seems to be down.

[pekatete]

The Facebook page has indicated that it was a DDoS attack (as we guessed), with a second wave four hours ago.

My miners saw a few more hiccups last night and early this morning. At the moment the pool appears dead again, so we're not out of this yet.

I hate DDoSers. They should take their talents and apply them to constructive ways to make money instead of lame ass shake downs.

Also, you would think that if you wanted to hold a pool for ransom, you'd do it earlier in the no fee promotion, not on the last day.

So in addition to being lazy and evil, they're also stupid.

Strange this ... had one of my miners with very old firmware kicked off port 3301 about an hour ago and it failed to get onto the backup port 3333 but its been hashing away nicely to .... I don't know where as there are no other pools but it's been showing a reduced hashrate for that time!

So yeah, seems the DDoS attack is still alive and kicking. Damn, we were on some good luck streak prior to these shenanigans.

[TheRealSteve]

BIP101 voting disabled because of DDoS attack 6 days, 21 hours
We were forced to close voting ports 3301 for supporting BIP101 proposal.

Please, use the regular ports 3333 for now. We'll keep you updated.

twitter: https://twitter.com/slush_pool/status/638731748965228544
fb: https://www.facebook.com/MiningBitcoinCz/posts/853118311440923

[edonkey]

BIP101 voting disabled because of DDoS attack 6 days, 21 hours
We were forced to close voting ports 3301 for supporting BIP101 proposal.

Please, use the regular ports 3333 for now. We'll keep you updated.

twitter: https://twitter.com/slush_pool/status/638731748965228544
fb: https://www.facebook.com/MiningBitcoinCz/posts/853118311440923

Interesting. So the attack is focused on the BIP101 voting port?

I guess that means this is a politically motivated attack, not the usual greed. That's even more unsettling.

This whole XT/Core fight has gotten out of hand...

[pekatete]

Ridiculous! Not that BIP101/XT had any chance (in the current convoluted debate) over the swift sand that is BIP100, but that was not enough for the pig-headed majority.
This just brings to the fore the real need for a code fork. I am aware the core "team" may not all agree with the majority that are the DDoS instigators (and that won't be the first time they don't agree with the majority in the bitcoin community), but this has taken it too far.

[chiguireitor]

To the DDoS organizator:

What a puerile way to express yourself.

Instead of adding hashrate to your selected option (which is obviously non-BIP101), you instead attack the only possible way to vote, the only bastion of truth.

Making everyone mine "core" instead of letting people vote and express themselves, letting the majority decide, you've just let everyone down and made an argument in favor of tyranny, the tyranny of a few individuals that think a tightly closed elite must decide the future of the cryptocurrency.

You sir/madam are promoting tyranny and elitism, not the real values of anarchy i think.

You have made the world a little bit worse by letting the "powers that be" control our future, instead of letting us all measure ourselves in a universal and direct vote.