[ANN][POOL] ipoMiner - Profitable multipool targeting new coins + merged mining!

[marecek666]

What about Quatloo? That direct port is still not fixed (3450).

Thanks.

All direct ports have been re-enabled, along with the neoscrypt multiport.

no they have not! FTC port is still unavailable:



edit 5.5.2015: they have finally got FTC direct port working, THX!

[ipominer]

edit 5.5.2015: they have finally got FTC direct port working, THX!

Sorry for the delay.. there was a botnet trying to mine neoscrypt/FTC that was causing problems and it took a while to sort that out.

On another note, some IPs have been blocked from connecting to the pool due to excessive connection attempts. If you have trouble with your miner not connecting, just send us an email and we will whitelist your IP.

[ipominer]

Over the past ~36 hours we noticed malicious users using an exploit that allowed duplicate shares to be submitted. We have now fixed the problem and the users that were using the exploit have now been permanently banned from mining on ipoMiner. This issue has affected nearly all pools and versions of stratum mining software, and we suggest advising all pools to be aware of the issue and take preemptive steps to fix it.

[ipominer]

We'll be removing the following coins at midnight on May 18: Bitmark, Doxcoin, Torrentcoin, Librarycoin, Firegeek, Whalecoin, Bitlux, Positron, LiteDoge, 8Bit, Slingcoin, Cybercoin. Please withdraw those by then if you have a balance and want to keep them. Note that some of those blockchains/wallets may be dead (no connections) and sending may be impossible -- specifically that I've noticed, Firegeek, Whalecoin, and Librarycoin.

[kingscrown]

Over the past ~36 hours we noticed malicious users using an exploit that allowed duplicate shares to be submitted. We have now fixed the problem and the users that were using the exploit have now been permanently banned from mining on ipoMiner. This issue has affected nearly all pools and versions of stratum mining software, and we suggest advising all pools to be aware of the issue and take preemptive steps to fix it.

fast reaction - good job!

[ipominer]

On June 14, the following coins will be removed from ipoMiner: ShellCoin, P7Coin, EquilibriumCoin, BitAlpha, Bata, Checkcoin, DarkCrave, Graviton, Lyrabar, Ticketcoin. Please withdraw them prior to that date if you have a balance.

[TheGrayMouser]

Hello!

Is there a direct port for NOTE?

[ipominer]

Hello!

Is there a direct port for NOTE?

There's not, at the moment. One could be added if there's interest though.

[TheGrayMouser]

Hello!

Is there a direct port for NOTE?

There's not, at the moment. One could be added if there's interest though.

Thanks for the quick response!  Hopefully some other miners will show some interest. 

[ipominer]

Just another reminder that in a few days, on June 14, the following coins will be removed from ipoMiner: ShellCoin, P7Coin, EquilibriumCoin, BitAlpha, Bata, Checkcoin, DarkCrave, Graviton, Lyrabar, Ticketcoin. Please withdraw them prior to that date if you have a balance.

[ipominer]

ipoMiner has been the largest VTC pool since early February, and our percentage of hashrate has been steadily growing since then. We've had both small and large miners mining Vertcoin with us since then, and we're excited to see VTC regaining popularity and more widespread interest in the past few weeks.

Of course, we want to support and encourage VTC as much as possible. Having a single pool with large hashrate isn't actually a direct problem, but it does create concerns over 51% attacks. To help encourage diversification of mining hashrate on the network, I just sent an email notification to all the Vertcoin miners at ipoMiner that the VTC ports will be shut down within the next 48 hours.

[ipominer]

ipoMiner has been the largest VTC pool since early February, and our percentage of hashrate has been steadily growing since then. We've had both small and large miners mining Vertcoin with us since then, and we're excited to see VTC regaining popularity and more widespread interest in the past few weeks.

Of course, we want to support and encourage VTC as much as possible. Having a single pool with large hashrate isn't actually a direct problem, but it does create concerns over 51% attacks. To help encourage diversification of mining hashrate on the network, I just sent an email notification to all the Vertcoin miners at ipoMiner that the VTC ports will be shut down within the next 48 hours.

interesting. this automatically makes coinotron the largest with the same concerns,
you were ~ on a par till today

Well, that's assuming the hashrate would disappear from the network, or go to Coinotron -- either of those seems unlikely.

[ipominer]

Ah, no.. we had more like 5-7x Coinotron's hashrate for VTC.

[Klarisskin]

I don't understand how stopping ipominer's VTC pool solves the VTC network concentration problem, since 99.9% of ipominer VTC hash power has been ONE  miner. He will just move to another pool (possibly automatically via a fail-over strategy) or setup his own pool. How does that solves the concentration problem? You can't split a single miner. You can contact him and ask to spread his hashpower. Forcing him away from ipominer solves nothing.

[ipominer]

I don't understand how stopping ipominer's VTC pool solves the VTC network concentration problem, since 99.9% of ipominer VTC hash power has been ONE  miner. He will just move to another pool (possibly automatically via a fail-over strategy) or setup his own pool. How does that solves the concentration problem? You can't split a single miner. You can contact him and ask to spread his hashpower. Forcing him away from ipominer solves nothing.

Actually, it has the potential to do more than you might think, because there's absolutely no other single VTC pool that can physically support that mining on their infrastructure. That's why they were mining here -- we're very well optimized. That said, There's unfortunately only so much I can do from the pool's standpoint -- shutting it off and encouraging hashrate to spread are the only two real options, and are what I'm doing.

[ipominer]

yet this solution seems strange to me as well, i'd probably raise VTC pool fee instead

Raising fees on a coin to encourage distribution of hashrate only works when there are a large number of individual miners on a coin -- which wasn't applicable in this case.

[Klarisskin]

I wonder how many "workers" Danila has on VTC pool. If it is in the thousands - it is a botnet most likely, if it is less than 100 then probably Lyra2Re FPGA is developed.

[ipominer]

I wonder how many "workers" Danila has on VTC pool. If it is in the thousands - it is a botnet most likely, if it is less than 100 then probably Lyra2Re FPGA is developed.

See my reply on the Vertcoin thread, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=895020.msg11687551#msg11687551

[TheCoinFinder]

I wonder how many "workers" Danila has on VTC pool. If it is in the thousands - it is a botnet most likely, if it is less than 100 then probably Lyra2Re FPGA is developed.

See my reply on the Vertcoin thread, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=895020.msg11687551#msg11687551

Botnet
a network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge.


The miner is malicious (it is not serving any purpose for the owner of the PC, they do not receive even one satoshi of reward in return). Controlled as a group - by Danila (who is running 149 miners on ipominer) - and without the owners' knowledge as there is no justifiable reason why someone would allow someone to mine without any recompense on their hardware willingly.

So ipominer supports and therefore profits off Botnets.

Danila was also top miner of various other coins on ipominer. Regardless of the morality of this, there is one fact to obtain from all this:

As Ipominer supports botnets, thereby potentially depriving all the other miners on every network of every coin that they host.

Of course it wouldn't stop botnets from existing, but its a damn site easier to profit when you have a multipool setup that is botnet friendly.

Its one thing to notice a botnet on a pool and be unsure how to remove it/try to do something about it.

Its another to condone it.

[ipominer]

It is one thing to notice a botnet on a pool and be unsure how to remove it/try to do something about it.

Its another to condone it.

Clearly as a pool we do not condone botnets, as discussed in our terms of use. What we were discussing in the Vertcoin thread is not about a botnet, as my reply there indicated.