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

[MoreBloodWine]

Check your payout addresses! Someone has changed mine to 148z3Qq6KzSVjca8xzXPWHMPBuWm2bqEQz And stole from my BTCGuild account. They've also locked it and I can't change it back. First Lunamine and now this. 

This is why I've always liked google 2FA, but eleu should be able to unlock everything for you. As for me, everything's fine here... haven't seen anything weird happen in my accounts.

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[Soros Shorts]

Pro-actively blocking a state, and requiring users to affirm they are not from that state should be adequate in preventing the state from trying to establish a nexus when there are clear attempts to prevent that state from accessing it.

Do you anticipate ever having to ask for proof of (non) residence, which in turn requires identification documents?

[eleuthria]

Pro-actively blocking a state, and requiring users to affirm they are not from that state should be adequate in preventing the state from trying to establish a nexus when there are clear attempts to prevent that state from accessing it.

Do you anticipate ever having to ask for proof of (non) residence, which in turn requires identification documents?

No, I'd shut down instead.  I have *zero* desire to be responsible for collecting and maintaining personal details on users.

[ManeBjorn]

I will ask again are you going to submit a comment to the NYDFS about how it could adversely affect your business and in which ways?
This is the kind of thing they need to know from someone in your position so that they can make sure it does not adversely damage your business.

Pro-actively blocking a state, and requiring users to affirm they are not from that state should be adequate in preventing the state from trying to establish a nexus when there are clear attempts to prevent that state from accessing it.

Do you anticipate ever having to ask for proof of (non) residence, which in turn requires identification documents?

No, I'd shut down instead.  I have *zero* desire to be responsible for collecting and maintaining personal details on users.

[hurricandave]

ARRRGH!! About to drop our first ZERO Shift!!!!!!!!! I guess this is payback for yesterdays run of good luck!

[eleuthria]

ARRRGH!! About to drop our first ZERO Shift!!!!!!!!! I guess this is payback for yesterdays run of good luck!

And we just did it.  Actually surprised we haven't had a 0-block shift until now, considering the 10 shifts have only been 100b shares combined for months.  These days that means you only need a block to hit ~4.8x difficulty for a shift to end with 0.

EDIT:  ~4.7x difficulty as of this post (110b shares / 23.8b diff)

[DrG]

ARRRGH!! About to drop our first ZERO Shift!!!!!!!!! I guess this is payback for yesterdays run of good luck!

And we just did it.  Actually surprised we haven't had a 0-block shift until now, considering the 10 shifts have only been 100b shares combined for months.  These days that means you only need a block to hit ~4.8x difficulty for a shift to end with 0.

EDIT:  ~4.7x difficulty as of this post (110b shares / 23.8b diff)

That is surprising considering Ghash.io hits 5x+ blocks with pretty high frequency despite their larger rate.  Hopefully it won't crawl towards 10x 

[hurricandave]

The average time per block is kinda low right now but there have been quite a number of 30+ minute blocks over the last couple days as well as 1000+ btc sized single transactions. I did see one block get solved on Sunday with only 1 transaction credited to it for 25 btc and wondered if the 25 btc was just from the reward possibly.

[eleuthria]

ARRRGH!! About to drop our first ZERO Shift!!!!!!!!! I guess this is payback for yesterdays run of good luck!

And we just did it.  Actually surprised we haven't had a 0-block shift until now, considering the 10 shifts have only been 100b shares combined for months.  These days that means you only need a block to hit ~4.8x difficulty for a shift to end with 0.

EDIT:  ~4.7x difficulty as of this post (110b shares / 23.8b diff)

That is surprising considering Ghash.io hits 5x+ blocks with pretty high frequency despite their larger rate.  Hopefully it won't crawl towards 10x  

GHash.io also burns through about 4x as many blocks as BTC Guild.  That means they would average 4 times more 5x(+) difficulty blocks than BTC Guild in the given time frame.  They also don't last as long since they are much faster, so the time people spend staring at a long block doesn't seem as bad even though it's no different.

[DrG]

ARRRGH!! About to drop our first ZERO Shift!!!!!!!!! I guess this is payback for yesterdays run of good luck!

And we just did it.  Actually surprised we haven't had a 0-block shift until now, considering the 10 shifts have only been 100b shares combined for months.  These days that means you only need a block to hit ~4.8x difficulty for a shift to end with 0.

EDIT:  ~4.7x difficulty as of this post (110b shares / 23.8b diff)

That is surprising considering Ghash.io hits 5x+ blocks with pretty high frequency despite their larger rate.  Hopefully it won't crawl towards 10x  

GHash.io also burns through about 4x as many blocks as BTC Guild.  That means they would average 4 times more 5x(+) difficulty blocks than BTC Guild in the given time frame.  They also don't last as long since they are much faster, so the time people spend staring at a long block doesn't seem as bad even though it's no different.

It's a lot more than 4 times as bad lol (well anything times 0 is infinitely more  ).  Will the graph actually show/touch 0 on the luck meter?

I don't mine at ghash.io but I have a friend who wants to keep her miners pointed there since she got a lot of referral hash - looks like their fees are getting out of control since the cloud hashing is actually causing a negative return during some bad stretches

[eleuthria]

ARRRGH!! About to drop our first ZERO Shift!!!!!!!!! I guess this is payback for yesterdays run of good luck!

And we just did it.  Actually surprised we haven't had a 0-block shift until now, considering the 10 shifts have only been 100b shares combined for months.  These days that means you only need a block to hit ~4.8x difficulty for a shift to end with 0.

EDIT:  ~4.7x difficulty as of this post (110b shares / 23.8b diff)

That is surprising considering Ghash.io hits 5x+ blocks with pretty high frequency despite their larger rate.  Hopefully it won't crawl towards 10x  

GHash.io also burns through about 4x as many blocks as BTC Guild.  That means they would average 4 times more 5x(+) difficulty blocks than BTC Guild in the given time frame.  They also don't last as long since they are much faster, so the time people spend staring at a long block doesn't seem as bad even though it's no different.

It's a lot more than 4 times as bad lol (well anything times 0 is infinitely more  ).  Will the graph actually show/touch 0 on the luck meter?

I don't mine at ghash.io but I have a friend who wants to keep her miners pointed there since she got a lot of referral hash - looks like their fees are getting out of control since the cloud hashing is actually causing a negative return during some bad stretches

The graph would only 0% luck if we have 3 shifts close with 0 blocks (which would be ~6.4x diff I believe).  The graph uses the average of 3 shifts since graphing every point over 3 months caused phones and some computer browsers to get slow/unresponsive.

[specialed101]

Can someone help. I am furious. BTCG user/worker benutzer_1 has hacked my antminer and changed a script file somewhere to redirect to his worker. What will BTC Guild do about this? Short of changing my SSH password which I have now done what else can I do?

UPDATE: Config file for cgminer did not show his pool/worker (priority 0) and a reboot has deleted killed his worker. Now very confused.

Thanks

I'm sorry you appear to have been hacked.  But I don't see how BTCG can help?

I could say my worker was hacked and I should get credit for someone else's work too.  My point is, how can you prove it?

M

It's definitely happening. I can vouch for that.

He's using the cgminer API listener to insert your pool and his account information onto miners with a hole in their default configurations. Sure, shame on the vendor that leaves that hole open, and shame on your member for hacking and stealing from decent people.

He's going to bring that shame on you too. I'd advise you to bounce that user from your pool before he muddies your name. You wouldn't want BTC Guild to become synonymous with "hackers" and "thieves", right?

[padrino]

Can someone help. I am furious. BTCG user/worker benutzer_1 has hacked my antminer and changed a script file somewhere to redirect to his worker. What will BTC Guild do about this? Short of changing my SSH password which I have now done what else can I do?

UPDATE: Config file for cgminer did not show his pool/worker (priority 0) and a reboot has deleted killed his worker. Now very confused.

Thanks

I'm sorry you appear to have been hacked.  But I don't see how BTCG can help?

I could say my worker was hacked and I should get credit for someone else's work too.  My point is, how can you prove it?

M

It's definitely happening. I can vouch for that.

He's using the cgminer API listener to insert your pool and his account information onto miners with a hole in their default configurations. Sure, shame on the vendor that leaves that hole open, and shame on your member for hacking and stealing from decent people.

He's going to bring that shame on you too. I'd advise you to bounce that user from your pool before he muddies your name. You wouldn't want BTC Guild to become synonymous with "hackers" and "thieves", right?

A few months ago there was a user which started a hacking thread discussing similar things with KNC miners.. I got involved in it because some of his conclusions were messed up but I mention it because in the end he was trying to leverage the thread to distribute malware and was definitely the one targeting miners.. Given the timeline in the replies above perhaps it was the same guy, who still might be at it for all we know..

[hurricandave]

Those original comments were left 5 months ago, if this issue was still ongoing it would still be a current topic on the thread. Not sure why it has been drug out of the closet now.

[specialed101]

Those original comments were left 5 months ago, if this issue was still ongoing it would still be a current topic on the thread. Not sure why it has been drug out of the closet now.

It is current. Happened to me this week.

[cathoderay]

Those original comments were left 5 months ago, if this issue was still ongoing it would still be a current topic on the thread. Not sure why it has been drug out of the closet now.

It is current. Happened to me this week.

Is that right? Strange how you failed to mention it on your own pool thread (I won't mention the name of it here out of respect for eleuthria), choosing instead to spout your FUD here. Don't tell me, it happened on one of your invisible S3's you keep winning from them as well.......

There are shills from that pool that are spreading so much FUD on other pools threads it's sickening.

[hurricandave]

There is really no effective way for a pool to block a user who is hijacking someone else's miner. Even if the account is blocked or suspended all they have to do is open another one.
The best thing to do is make sure YOU are following best practices with YOUR network settings, tipping off the rest of us that its happened and moving on.
Pointing a finger at the pool operating and threating the pools reputation will only make you look like a jerk. Whereas an attitude of being informative and proactive would serve you best.

[specialed101]

There is really no effective way for a pool to block a user who is hijacking someone else's miner. Even if the account is blocked or suspended all they have to do is open another one.
The best thing to do is make sure YOU are following best practices with YOUR network settings, tipping off the rest of us that its happened and moving on.
Pointing a finger at the pool operating and threating the pools reputation will only make you look like a jerk. Whereas an attitude of being informative and proactive would serve you best.

I wasn't threatening anything, but just predicting the future. I was hoping to appeal to someone's sense of pride in doing something positive for the crypto-currency community as a whole. I guess I came to the wrong place.

[hurricandave]

Eluthria, I just noticed something strange on the pool website dashboard.

Block 317891 was submitted for conf. at 4:58 am CST.
Shift 19478  was completed at 5:00 am CST.
    but
Block 317891 did not update as confirmed until work had begun on block 317894.

When I checked the PPLNS stats page I could see that block 317891 was credited in the shift(19478) that had mined it.
Was/is this a glitch or did we win an orphan race to keep the block credit?

[hurricandave]

There is really no effective way for a pool to block a user who is hijacking someone else's miner. Even if the account is blocked or suspended all they have to do is open another one.
The best thing to do is make sure YOU are following best practices with YOUR network settings, tipping off the rest of us that its happened and moving on.
Pointing a finger at the pool operating and threating the pools reputation will only make you look like a jerk. Whereas an attitude of being informative and proactive would serve you best.

I wasn't threatening anything, but just predicting the future. I was hoping to appeal to someone's sense of pride in doing something positive for the crypto-currency community as a whole. I guess I came to the wrong place.

I guess my interpretation of the sentiment in your last sentence was different than what you had intended.