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

[PatMan]

It all stems most likely from the Bitcointalk hack that happened. Emails were gathered and now presumably malicious 3rd parties are attempting to brute force

This is my thought also, and have changed my registration details here, again. My PC is very secure with an excellent security setup, plus I format & reinstall every few months, the last time being a few weeks ago. I know that a unit can never be 100% secure, but consider my setup to be much more so than the average PC.

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[eleuthria]

It's not just the Bitcointalk hacks.  Especially when it comes to long time Bitcoin users, repeating the use of passwords anywhere probably means your password is known.  There was bitcoinpool.com which had a plaintext leak of all usernames and passwords.  There was the earlier MtGox hack that had a leak where many early accounts had easily reversible hashes due to lack of a proper salt, and no doubt there were *many* other Bitcoin site leaks that went unreported.  There have also bee in the last 3 years leaks from Adobe and LinkedIn (and more, those are just the two that come to mind).

I know that the brute force attacks that are always taking place against BTC Guild are not "brute force".  They're not guessing passwords, they're using username+password combinations from a database that has been compiled over many years, with millions of username+password combinations, and tunnel it through infected computers from all over the world to prevent any kind of pattern analysis from hitting them without false positives.

[PatMan]

Thank you eleuthria for the fast & first class support as always. This is why BTCGuild is the best centralised pool out there bar none. I was fortunate enough to not have lost too much, I hope the other users who have been affected didn't lose too much also.

There you have it people - change passwords often & be careful out there!

Peace 

[eleuthria]

Thank you eleuthria for the fast & first class support as always. This is why BTCGuild is the best centralised pool out there bar none. I was fortunate enough to not have lost too much, I hope the other users who have been affected didn't lose too much also.

There you have it people - change passwords often & be careful out there!

Peace 

And never, ever, ever, re-use a same or similar password unless it's a specific one used for sites where somebody else getting your account means absolutely nothing.

[spineshank624]

lol I think this is the worst 24 hour payout in a long time .... I have made .00019312 in the last 24 hours  ehh its life hope the luck goes up!
(its only a 110g/h miner so not expecting much lol)

[medUSA]

I have a small amount of namecoin stuck on BTCGuild. I could not find a way to manually withdraw all the namecoin like I could with bitcoin. I could change the automatic withdraw limit and get most of those out, but I prefer to clear the balance. Thanks.

[rnaodm]

Where is the NMC mined info? The dashboard only has btc account balance info

[hurricandave]

Where is the NMC mined info? The dashboard only has btc account balance info

Open the settings Tab. Upper right select "show" next to Namecoin then "apply". Return to Dashboard. Only Namecoin earnings are displayed.

[rnaodm]

thank you!

[navigator]

Wow, I haven't been paying attention and noticed we hit over 230% luck. That's the highest in a long while, right?

I've been wondering if I should temporarily leave the pool after any over 200% luck days. It seems we always have a short bad luck run afterwards.

[eleuthria]

Wow, I haven't been paying attention and noticed we hit over 230% luck. That's the highest in a long while, right?

I've been wondering if I should temporarily leave the pool after any over 200% luck days. It seems we always have a short bad luck run afterwards.

That's gambler's fallacy/observational bias.  Had you left after the 200% luck spike, you would have missed out on consistently > 100% rewards for the following 12 hours, and what will be *another* 200% [or more] luck spike once the next 3 shifts close.


EDIT:  The chart is going to have a record high spike in luck once the next 3 shifts close.  As of this post there are 3 shifts with 12 blocks paid out to them already, and all 3 are still open to being paid more.  The previous luck spike was a record and that was from a set of 3x 11-block shifts in a row.

[navigator]

I know you're right and understand it. Just saying it feels that way. And actually I would only leave after the next quick spike that seems to happen after the 200+ spikes. I had the same feeling around nov 6 and dec 11.

Doesn't matter since I probably won't leave anyway. BTCguild is the most stable pool for me. I rarely have any problems with my miners running on your pool.

[eleuthria]

A few (3) payments failed to process due to the spike in luck yesterday.  Since BTC Guild credits your account after 1 confirmation, but the pool can't actually send funds from those blocks until they have over 100 confirmations, the big spike in luck caused the pool's hot wallet to be emptied of spendable coins until more confirmations came in for our recent blocks.

The failed payments should re-issue in the next 30 minutes.  This *may* happen again due to the luck spike we're having today, it all depends on how many accounts cross an automatic payment threshold at the same time vs the timing of our blocks becoming spendable.

The pool always has full funds to pay all users balances, but only a fraction of those funds are kept in the hot wallet, while the rest are moved into cold storage.

[xstr8guy]

Well it's been fun!

I just shut down a bunch of FrankenJup modules, old Bitfury rigs and an S2. I'll still limp along with my more efficient gear for a few more weeks. They'll add just enough heat so I won't need to use the furnace. After that, I'm done.

Thanks for running a great pool Eleuthria! Even with the current low price of bitcoin, I made a tidy profit over the past 18 months.

[eleuthria]

Well it's been fun!

I just shut down a bunch of FrankenJup modules, old Bitfury rigs and an S2. I'll still limp along with my more efficient gear for a few more weeks. They'll add just enough heat so I won't need to use the furnace. After that, I'm done.

Thanks for running a great pool Eleuthria! Even with the current low price of bitcoin, I made a tidy profit over the past 18 months.

Going to be an interesting time going forward.  I'm curious to see whether this huge price decline is going to further centralization to private farms (properly located huge mining farms can keep running at a profit WAY beyond *most* individuals), or bring the balance back towards individuals and pools which are made up individual miners.  So far, it looks like BTC Guild is growing a bit [hashrate and network % both] even though it's quite clear that a number of farms and miners are turning off.  But that may just be people hopping onto the pool after the lucky few days.

[Marcoser123321]

I just wanted to say that I've been using BTC guild with my humble 1 THs. Not a single complaint. Thanks a lot for being there.

[FunkiMunki]

I am new to mining and have been running my 1TH/s for 8-12 hours and I don't have anything yet...is this normal?

[os2sam]

I am new to mining and have been running my 1TH/s for 8-12 hours and I don't have anything yet...is this normal?

Read the "How am I Rewarded" link on the web site.

https://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=support&section=howamirewarded

[railzand]

An odd question about ID numbers in the splendid Hall of Fame section.
Someone joined my team with an ID number way up at ~1.5 million and I've not seen nearly such a high number before.
Does this mean that many accounts have been created at the Guild?

Also, let's all not talk about l*ck.

[eleuthria]

An odd question about ID numbers in the splendid Hall of Fame section.
Someone joined my team with an ID number way up at ~1.5 million and I've not seen nearly such a high number before.
Does this mean that many accounts have been created at the Guild?

A couple months ago the botnet that was being used to try to brute force logins using a database of leaked username+password combinations from other sites got smarter and changed their tactic from trying to log in to trying to register new accounts with usernames from that database, basically letting them know if they at least have half of it right.  As a result, the User ID's got bumped up by about 900k overnight (a few months ago).