[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers

[iglasses]

Did Guild just solve two blocks 18 seconds apart?

That's pretty cool!

[DrG]

Is the website down?  I got a 404 error followed by a long time from 2 different North America locations.  

Now a cloudfare 524 error.

[eleuthria]

Is the website down?  I got a 404 error followed by a long time from 2 different North America locations.  

Now a cloudfare 524 error.

It's Cloudflare's end.  Mining is completely unaffected, and for MOST users the website is fine.  It looks like a large region or two are having Cloudflare outages right now (even Cloudflare's site is down for me).

[ManeBjorn]

It's working for me I am on there now.

Is the website down?  I got a 404 error followed by a long time from 2 different North America locations.  

Now a cloudfare 524 error.

[DrG]

Is the website down?  I got a 404 error followed by a long time from 2 different North America locations.  

Now a cloudfare 524 error.

It's Cloudflare's end.  Mining is completely unaffected, and for MOST users the website is fine.  It looks like a large region or two are having Cloudflare outages right now (even Cloudflare's site is down for me).

Yeah I saw my ASICs submitting shares... just wanted to get a confirmation that the backend was fine (since you never sleep ).  I don't worry about the site unless I have trouble logging in from 3 locations and that was the case - but looks like a cloudflare issue which seems to have cleared up.

[eleuthria]

Is the website down?  I got a 404 error followed by a long time from 2 different North America locations.  

Now a cloudfare 524 error.

It's Cloudflare's end.  Mining is completely unaffected, and for MOST users the website is fine.  It looks like a large region or two are having Cloudflare outages right now (even Cloudflare's site is down for me).

Yeah I saw my ASICs submitting shares... just wanted to get a confirmation that the backend was fine (since you never sleep ).  I don't worry about the site unless I have trouble logging in from 3 locations and that was the case - but looks like a cloudflare issue which seems to have cleared up.

If you're seeing an error page saying that the "Host" (BTC Guild) timed out, a good way to see if it's Cloudflare's fault is to try to load www.cloudflare.com .  If it's extremely slow, you know it's something on the Cloudflare route near you.

[OleOle]

Well, call me cynical but when a badly worded email, barely in English, hits my junk folder, I never click the links in it, however 'authentic' the email address appears to be.

I received this hacked? bogus? unauthorized? email from support@btcguild.com and if you've ever read a post here from Eleuthria, you'd bet good money on this not being sent from the venerable BTC Guild:







I'd advise people to be very careful of any similar emails received and to ignore any links. I'm sure Eleuthria will inform us of the state of play in due course.

Dang haxxors everywhere.

 

[eleuthria]

Looks like somebody is piggybacking on an old database leak from a Bitcoin site (probably MtGox or Bitcointalk) and sending a phishing email from "support@btcguild.com" (it is not coming from any of my servers, it is fake).  It mentions trying to contact you over a failed transfer and has a link to an "attachment" (virus).

Obviously it's a damn fake, but I've gotten over 70 email replies from people this morning, and a good portion of them are believing the contents or providing extra information.


This is NOT coming from a leak of email addresses at BTC Guild.  I have about a dozen replies from people stating they have no account with BTC Guild.

[organofcorti]

"Please correct your Butcoin address soon".

Eh, you been mining buttcoins again?

[eleuthria]

"Please correct your Butcoin address soon".

Eh, you been mining buttcoins again?

This is getting pretty bad...I have a strong indication of what website has had at least a partial database leak to produce this email list being used for the phishing attempt...and its an exchange.  Waiting on more confirmation and I've sent a notice to the exchange, but odds are I'll never get a reply.  I will update once I have received enough confirmations.

[mdude77]

"Please correct your Butcoin address soon".

Eh, you been mining buttcoins again?

lol

M

[MoreBloodWine]

Well, I'm fucked, PSU went bad on the Avalon and now I gotta wait for a new one and I had good earnings ;-(

[rgiskard]

A noob question, not specifically BTC Guild related, but wondering how you can tell if you are resposible for finding a block. I know this doesn't affect payout, but just curious...

[MoreBloodWine]

A noob question, not specifically BTC Guild related, but wondering how you can tell if you are resposible for finding a block. I know this doesn't affect payout, but just curious...

https://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=rankings

[aurel57]

Eleuthria I have a question for you. I see you paid out on block # 286386 and 286401 today, but the blocks ended up with some other pool. So did you just lose 50 coins and what you paid out on PPS?

[MoreBloodWine]

Eleuthria I have a question for you. I see you paid out on block # 286386 and 286401 today, but the blocks ended up with some other pool. So did you just lose 50 coins and what you paid out on PPS?

I think this is going to be answer by something like, never trust block chain. They're notoriously bad for mis representing solved blocks.

[organofcorti]

Eleuthria I have a question for you. I see you paid out on block # 286386 and 286401 today, but the blocks ended up with some other pool. So did you just lose 50 coins and what you paid out on PPS?

I think this is going to be answer by something like, never trust block chain. They're notoriously bad for mis representing solved blocks.

Or something like "BTC Guild pays for orphaned blocks, so if any orphan races were lost the block rewards come out of eleuthria's pocket".

[eleuthria]

Eleuthria I have a question for you. I see you paid out on block # 286386 and 286401 today, but the blocks ended up with some other pool. So did you just lose 50 coins and what you paid out on PPS?

I think this is going to be answer by something like, never trust block chain. They're notoriously bad for mis representing solved blocks.

Or something like "BTC Guild pays for orphaned blocks, so if any orphaned races were lost the block rewards come out of eleuthria's pocket".

This would be the correct response.  Both of those blocks ended up being orphaned...which makes me suspicious as hell.  GHash.io has been orphaning a LOT of blocks lately by releasing 2-3 blocks on top of each other.  In both of those orphans, blockchain.info saw our block before GHash.io by a decent margin (12 seconds on the first one).  That's not the block timestamp difference, it's *when* the block was seen (Received Time).


3 orphans in the last 24 hours, all either with a competing ghash.io block (or "unknown/IP relayer"), and all 3 of them ended up having Ghash.io be the one that confirmed the fork against BTC Guild.  All 3 of them were seen by many other nodes on the network as BTC Guild being the first block at that height.

[Darthswan]

2 questions about reporting:

1.  Where can you go to find all of your payouts per block?

2.  Does the pps setting, show a breakdown by day or is it just accumulative?  

[eleuthria]

2 questions about reporting:

1.  Where can you go to find all of your payouts per block?

2.  Does the pps setting, show a breakdown by day or is it just accumulative?  

1)  PPLNS doesn't do "payouts per block", it does payouts per shift.  There's significant details available for every shift if you click on the 'Details' link under PPLNS Stats.  The dashboard has an approximation since users tend to associate payouts with blocks, but that is not the source of your payout, the shifts are.

2)  PPS is cumulative per difficulty.