[ANN] NiceHash.com - sell & buy hash rate cloud mining service / multipool

[pieran]

at least there is an info on the front page now....

[nicetry]

lol trust me i dont want to lose my btc either.  but no updates in 8 hours.  no response after so many questions.  kind of worries me.

yea, at least there is an update now....still nervous though

[pieran]

lol trust me i dont want to lose my btc either.  but no updates in 8 hours.  no response after so many questions.  kind of worries me.

yea, at least there is an update now....still nervous though

site is working again

[nicehashdev]

We are sorry for the attack that happened, even though we are not the ones doing it.

Stratum was working fine, all shares counted, payment was issued few minutes ago.

[bigjme]

We are sorry for the attack that happened, even though we are not the ones doing it.

Stratum was working fine, all shares counted, payment was issued few minutes ago.

what did they target in the end?

[ryen123]

Account sign-up is broken? Tells me the message below when trying to verify my email address.

"You don't have permission to access /index.jsp on this server."

[nicetry]

how can they attack if you are behind cloudflare? 

[evolvia31]

clouflare is just a joke.
Web server need to have an ip public to connect clouflare so if attack aim real ip public and not clouflare ip website will be down even cloudflare protect.

[zelante]

Account sign-up is broken? Tells me the message below when trying to verify my email address.

"You don't have permission to access /index.jsp on this server."

Have same problem but i'm can't access to web site at all.

Code:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.jsp on this server.

Apache Server at www.nicehash.com Port 80

[update]
At that moment all fine...

[btctradingonline]

nicehash comeback, but my data is empty now

updated :  down again

[fivejonnyfive]

That's just great. The second my deposit confirms:

"NiceHash web frontend is currently down for maintenance.
We expect to be back in a couple hours. Thanks for your patience.

Stratum servers are not affected and are running as usual. "

 

[Trimegistus]

Site keeps coming up and down...  

[nicetry]

I think NiceHash should do a promo that lowers the orderings fees and eliminate the 2% fees for buyers and sellers for this outtage.  I think our workers were working at below-market rate for QUITE A WHILE and i had to spent money canceling my orders even though they already started.

[JHammer]

I think NiceHash should do a promo that lowers the orderings fees and eliminate the 2% fees for buyers and sellers for this outtage.  I think our workers were working at below-market rate for QUITE A WHILE and i had to spent money canceling my orders even though they already started.

I got the hell out of here yesterday when OP was not providing us much info.. Still out of here..

On an other related note:

What has happened with all the low Payments?    Both here and other pools.. It was like 0.0033 Per 1MHs per day and then all the freaking suddend its now like 0.0026 per 1 MH's

Was there a HUGE increase in difficulty in LTC?

Coin prices going up.. Mining profits dropping like a rock?

[suchmoon]

I think NiceHash should do a promo that lowers the orderings fees and eliminate the 2% fees for buyers and sellers for this outtage.  I think our workers were working at below-market rate for QUITE A WHILE and i had to spent money canceling my orders even though they already started.

I got the hell out of here yesterday when OP was not providing us much info.. Still out of here..

On an other related note:

What has happened with all the low Payments?    Both here and other pools.. It was like 0.0033 Per 1MHs per day and then all the freaking suddend its now like 0.0026 per 1 MH's

Was there a HUGE increase in difficulty in LTC?

Coin prices going up.. Mining profits dropping like a rock?

LTC difficulty is likely to decrease a little bit in a couple of days, and the last increase wasn't huge either. However its exchange rate with BTC has dropped significantly, and there don't seem to be any new pumpcoins so Scrypt profitability is sliding down. Considering the recent ~20% rise in BTC/fiat rate it's not that bad though.

[nicetry]

Coin prices going up.. Mining profits dropping like a rock?

I think the key part you left out is that bitcoins prices going up, but not other types of coins in relation to bitcoins.  This is why btc/mh/s is dropping because all the alt coin prices going down, except x11 and sha256.

But with sha256, you have to pay in btc to buy btc hashing power essentially, so that's not going to go up or down either. 

And for x11, DRK difficulty rising so fast that hasing becomes less profitable too.

So this is the reason that all prices are dropping.

[bitcoinvideos]

I've been happy being a provider on NiceHash. Yes they had a DDOS problem but to be honest the OP was probably frantically trying to get it fixed rather than not being communicative because he was being shady. Nothing has been lost and signing up with them to provide or buy was a breeze (in fact to be a provider no reg was needed).

[kenshirothefist]

Hi. As you've noticed, we had issues with DDoS attacks in the past 24h ours. DDoS was targeting our web front-end servers. Attackers were smart enough to bypass CloudFlare protection and were exploiting some in-application weakness. We have successfully repulsed the attack and hardened security for our web front-end servers. No funds were lost, mining on stratum servers continued as usual. Payments were delayed for about half a day. We do apologize for the inconvenience - to the buyers for not being able to edit or submit orders and to providers for the lack of information on the situation.

Thank you all for understanding and thank you all for using NiceHash. We will continue to improve security and performance of our stratum servers as well as adding new features in the near future!

We all wish you nice hashing!

[suchmoon]

Communication or not, this whole DDOS thing need to be solved for nicehash to remain viable. It's been announced many times that "this won't happen again" etc etc but I don't know of any other pool or rental service that would have this kind of issue going on for weeks on end. If there is something fundamentally wrong with the technologies being used, or the business model, or the hosting provider, it needs to be addressed. Nicehash already requires some extra effort on top of what you need for ordinary multipools - special miner versions, monitoring for idle miners - so one would expect it to be at least as stable, and at least a little bit more profitable that said multipools, neither of which is the case right now. That's just the provider's point of view. I can see that there are renter-specific issues too - if the site is down they lose all control over their orders, which is probably even worse that what providers experience.

[kenshirothefist]

Communication or not, this whole DDOS thing need to be solved for nicehash to remain viable. It's been announced many times that "this won't happen again" etc etc but I don't know of any other pool or rental service that would have this kind of issue going on for weeks on end. If there is something fundamentally wrong with the technologies being used, or the business model, or the hosting provider, it needs to be addressed. Nicehash already requires some extra effort on top of what you need for ordinary multipools - special miner versions, monitoring for idle miners - so one would expect it to be at least as stable, and at least a little bit more profitable that said multipools, neither of which is the case right now. That's just the provider's point of view. I can see that there are renter-specific issues too - if the site is down they lose all control over their orders, which is probably even worse that what providers experience.

Hmm, I don't recall saying "this won't happen again", I'm actually not that brave . Attackers are always one step ahead and we, service providers have to constantly improve our services for our customers to be satisfied. Keep in mind that NiceHash is not like ordinary multipool. We are exposed in two ends - at stratum server and at web frontends (because of two-ways users interaction). Also, our service is still novel and obviously some features need to mature to make them rigorous enough. Our motto is to provide easy service for providers with the ability to use one service for multi-algorithm mining and at the same time easy service for buyers to get hashing power on pay-as-you-go basis - and we'll keep it this way. Thanks for your support!