[~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More

[sadpandatech]

Hello,

My Confirmed Rewards haven't been updated in many hours, whats wrong?

super long round. Confirmed rewards update roughly 1 hour after a block is found.

[AniceInovation]

Not really, many resolved blocks with no income to me, 2 to 3 bitcoin in total.
Please check it

[sadpandatech]

Not really, many resolved blocks with no income to me, 2 to 3 bitcoin in total.
Please check it

:/   Are they atleast showing in the Unconfirmed?

  Mine were down about 15% but without adding up every share and figuring what it should be, I assume it was due to all the long rounds.

[AniceInovation]

Not even in the unconfirmed unfortunatelly.
Let's wait for someone to check it.

[eleuthria]

Been fighting off a persistent botnet for the past 48-72 hours.  Things should be getting back to normal now, contacted the ISP with a database over over 500,000 IP addresses that were involved in the attacks.

[TyGrr]

Is this related to what deepbit has now?

[eleuthria]

I don't think so.  Our attacker wasn't malicious, it was just one of the many trojans out there that try to use BTC Guild.  A large # of CPU miners will make a pool unresponsive, there's nothing any pool can do to stop it other than throw more hardware or attempt to filter them out at the ISP level (once they hit your machine they're already straining your servers).

Deepbit seems to be completely offline right now, which points to a deliberate attack rather than just a botnet attempting to mine.

[TyGrr]

Well, I do support that you are anti botnet, It is one of the reasons why my 7gh/s is pointed at you. Thx

[sadpandatech]

ayeee, you rock, Eleuthria! 


While you're here, any plans on messing with merged mining?

[eleuthria]

Right now merged mining is mostly being put off due to lack of time, a few new business ventures I'm trying to launch by the end of the year.

When it does hit, I'm still working on how I will go about awarding the coins, and how to make it easy to understand when reviewing your rewards.  It will probably just merge any NMC balance changes into the bitcoin round, so when we found a BTC block, it will include a separate column for NMC earned, and namecoins mined during that BTC block will be split using the same percentages.

[sadpandatech]

Right now merged mining is mostly being put off due to lack of time, a few new business ventures I'm trying to launch by the end of the year.

When it does hit, I'm still working on how I will go about awarding the coins, and how to make it easy to understand when reviewing your rewards.  It will probably just merge any NMC balance changes into the bitcoin round, so when we found a BTC block, it will include a separate column for NMC earned, and namecoins mined during that BTC block will be split using the same percentages.

Sounds awesome. And, it is good to know you like to think these things through ahead of time.  *points at some of the other pool ops*   

[eleuthria]

Maybe I poked the hornet's nest with my IP list this morning...one mining server is now completely offline and can't be accessed.  Moving the load balancing around, sorry for the downtime but it looks like its hitting everybody right now.

[DeathAndTaxes]

I don't think it is something you did.  Slush indicates his pool is under attack and deep bit users are indcating connectivity issues.

[eleuthria]

I don't think it is something you did.  Slush indicates his pool is under attack and deep bit users are indcating connectivity issues.

I'm referring to the fact that this all happened a few minutes after I posted that I had submitted a giant list of IPs that I had been collecting from the botnet miners the last few days.  Could very easily be the childish mentality of these "hackers":  "Oh yeah, well I'm going to take my ball and go home, but first I'm going to pop your ball."

[sadpandatech]

I don't think it is something you did.  Slush indicates his pool is under attack and deep bit users are indcating connectivity issues.

I'm referring to the fact that this all happened a few minutes after I posted that I had submitted a giant list of IPs that I had been collecting from the botnet miners the last few days.  Could very easily be the childish mentality of these "hackers":  "Oh yeah, well I'm going to take my ball and go home, but first I'm going to pop your ball."

Looks that way exactly. Can verify issues off and on connecting to you, Slush and deepbit..

[grod]

Half a million infected machines is no script kiddie.  That's gotta be the granddaddy of all botnets hitting everyone right now.  And good job on the submission, yours is the only pool not being DDoSed into being down.

[paraipan]

Half a million infected machines is no script kiddie.  That's gotta be the granddaddy of all botnets hitting everyone right now.  And good job on the submission, yours is the only pool not being DDoSed into being down.

compiling a list with all those zombie pc's, like some providers have on tor nodes, and show them a warning on every fucking page they visit should get their attention and make some ppl format their malware bloated pc's. I'm curious if some fixed ip's could get notticed and some pc's investigated after an attack of such proportions...

[Nesetalis]

how fucking annoying :|

[eleuthria]

And now all 3 pool servers are down.  I have a few weaker machines I'm bringing up that will proxy connections to our backend.  If they go down I'm out of options until the attackers stop.

[JinTu]

And now all 3 pool servers are down.  I have a few weaker machines I'm bringing up that will proxy connections to our backend.  If they go down I'm out of options until the attackers stop.

Looks like they hit Slush too.