[BitAffNet] How we're the #1 Bitcoin Mining Pool In The World (or so we thought)

[Ecnad]

Back up already

[Marvell1]

yup back up moved my 10TH over ill see how it goes for a few days

Jeez whats that those users clevermining and others with so much hash rate at the top

[no141]

Hmmmm, since the last payment I received, there have been 10 confirmed blocks and one still confirming. Yes, my last payment was on the 12th. I did change my payments to 24 hours, and now I'm wondering if there's a chance that payments are at least three times your selected choice. I see there's payouts listed at 0.0006, still with the 0.0001 fee, and I have a payout waiting, many times that. Since the three times plus times the selected choice could be true, I should change to every two hours!

The tiny payments are a huge problem, fix them please. Make them wait for 0.1.  I wait for a bigger payout each time

[Ecnad]

Finally got a payout a few minutes ago, so they are going out, just slow today.

[no141]

13 minutes after my message I got a payment. I have to wonder if I am correct with the time settings. I did change it lower.

[aurel57]

13 minutes after my message I got a payment. I have to wonder if I am correct with the time settings. I did change it lower.

I have mine set at 12 hours and my last 2 payments before this last one were sent 12 hours apart. The pool runs out of coins is why payments are late most of the time. Only a few times in the past it was due to s0br being the only one that could move coins to the hot wallet and he was MIA and we had to wait for him to refill it. After all the coins that were found in the last few days I think payments will be back on time for a while now.

[aurel57]

New Email:



Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Gil" <admin@bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com>
Date: March 16, 2015 at 9:07:50 AM EDT
To: aurel57@yahoo.com
Subject: [Bitcoin Affiliate Network - News Update] Hey aurel57, Incoming DDOS attack


There's an incoming DDOS attack today. I received an extortion request yesterday.
They're claiming to be able to take down all the servers... The threat is credible as they've already
taken down many big pools.


aurel57.. you are receiving this email because you're currently mining in the pool.


If you're in europe or asia switch to this private stratum node: stratum+tcp:xxxxx

You may also use  if xxxx you wish.


I'm currently setting up a private server in the USA.

I took steps yesterday to protect the main web site... which I'm confident will work. We're on a new ip
network behind cloudflare.com ddos protection. There's just not much I can do about the public stratum nodes.
I don't have full control over most of them.

You can keep mining where your'e at right now... perhaps use the private pool as backup... if it's
further from your location.

I will write soon with the US one...

-Gil (s0br)

p.s. This new server isn't public, new, and not known to the attackers. They will keep your mining
safe and unaffected.



Email below....


Hello,

To introduce ourselves first:

http://blogs.akamai.com/2014/12/dd4bc-anatomy-of-a-bitcoin-extortion-campaign.html

http://bitcoinbountyhunter.com/bitalo.html

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113499/notorious-hacker-group-involved-in-excoin-theft-owner-accuses-ccedk-of-withholding-info

Or just google “DD4BC” and you will find more info.

Recently, we were DDoS-ing bw.com, bitminter and other pools - you probably know for it if you read cryptocurrency news.



So, it’s your turn.


Unless you pay 10 BTC to 1LHPpEdxWvhQip3KqdRd9jgBuYHSGUB7Zp within 12 hours from now, your pool servers are going under heavy DDoS attack.

Pay, and you will never hear from us again.

Usually, we attack first, then ask BTC to stop, but since your pool is too big, one of the largest Bitcoin pools, we are giving you time to act first, because we are well aware that even 1 hour offline would cause much larger damage then 10 BTC.

12 hours, because we are not in the same time zone and it’s morning in china, so we want to make sure that you had time to act.

AS PROOF that this is not an empty threat, we will run a small attack on on your server now – 188.166.18.30. Don’t worry it’s not going to be hard and will run for just 1 hour, so your server will not get null routed.
But if not paid, all your servers are going down for good.

Please note that it will not be easy to mitigate our attack, because our current UDP flood power is 400-500 Gbps.

IMPORTANT: You don’t even have to reply. Just pay 10 BTC to 1LHPpEdxWvhQip3KqdRd9jgBuYHSGUB7Zp – we will know it’s you and you will never hear from us again.

But if you ignore us, attack will start and price to stop will go to 20 BTC and will keep going up for every day of delay.

ONE MORE TIME: It’s a one-time payment. Pay and you will not hear from us ever again!

Thank you.

[aurel57]

On a better note I guess one of my miners found the last block on this pool...

 Last Found Blocks
Height   Finder   Time   Difficulty   Amount   Expected Shares   Actual Shares   Percentage
347865   Aurel57   03/16/2015 13:42:39   47,427,554,950.6483   25.00   47,427,554,951   101,823,477,146   214.69


Edit: just checked and it was one of my S3 miners (490 Gh/s) that I had just moved back to the pool less than 5 hours earlier.   and in a twist of faith it was one of 3 miners I named after ....Really?  

[Biffa]

On a better note I guess one of my miners found the last block on this pool...

Nice one! Saw that.

[remnokc]

got the same e.mail as aurel57 above.
also, eligius is one of my backup pools and that website is down too.

thanks for the heads up aurel57

[jonnybravo0311]

On a better note I guess one of my miners found the last block on this pool...

 Last Found Blocks
Height   Finder   Time   Difficulty   Amount   Expected Shares   Actual Shares   Percentage
347865   Aurel57   03/16/2015 13:42:39   47,427,554,950.6483   25.00   47,427,554,951   101,823,477,146   214.69


Edit: just checked and it was one of my S3 miners (490 Gh/s) that I had just moved back to the pool less than 5 hours earlier.   and in a twist of faith it was one of 3 miners I named after ....Really?  

Congrats on the block find.  It's always a great feeling to know that one of your miners did it.  Too funny that your "...Really?" miner was the one that solved the block for BAN

[aurel57]

On a better note I guess one of my miners found the last block on this pool...

 Last Found Blocks
Height   Finder   Time   Difficulty   Amount   Expected Shares   Actual Shares   Percentage
347865   Aurel57   03/16/2015 13:42:39   47,427,554,950.6483   25.00   47,427,554,951   101,823,477,146   214.69


Edit: just checked and it was one of my S3 miners (490 Gh/s) that I had just moved back to the pool less than 5 hours earlier.   and in a twist of faith it was one of 3 miners I named after ....Really?  

Congrats on the block find.  It's always a great feeling to know that one of your miners did it.  Too funny that your "...Really?" miner was the one that solved the block for BAN

LoL kind of what I thought .... Nothing wrong with having some fun with the mining. When I get home I will edit the post with a screenshot of the miner.

[BrokenArrow]

That's great.  Congratulations!!!

[aurel57]

That's great.  Congratulations!!!

Thanks

Just got an on time  payment from the pool.

[yslyung]

so far, good job done by operator & mining wasn't really disrupted. payments are back on schedule. let's hunt for moarrr blocks.

i hope the attackers gets punished soon causing many others problems.

[no141]

The closest node to me was probably affected by their DDOSing. I have the miner running in a SSH shell, so I can see all the messages, and it seems like the node is there, just not effective. I was wondering about the website that looked like it had 'Help I'm being attacked' on. Is this confused hacker person trying to go after all the nodes? Isn't a pool spread out as this one, pretty protected? Another pool I have as a backup, has only three nodes, I'd be worried for them. If the attacker is making money this way, who in the world just pays?

I wish they would keep their targets on bitmain, they got greedy with the price increase, and I thought that was more noble. Going after pools is just a desperate attempt at trying to find someone that will pay. Would be amazing to see a gov't find the attacker on behalf of bitcoin.

[hollowtm]

The closest node to me was probably affected by their DDOSing. I have the miner running in a SSH shell, so I can see all the messages, and it seems like the node is there, just not effective. I was wondering about the website that looked like it had 'Help I'm being attacked' on. Is this confused hacker person trying to go after all the nodes? Isn't a pool spread out as this one, pretty protected? Another pool I have as a backup, has only three nodes, I'd be worried for them. If the attacker is making money this way, who in the world just pays?

I wish they would keep their targets on bitmain, they got greedy with the price increase, and I thought that was more noble. Going after pools is just a desperate attempt at trying to find someone that will pay. Would be amazing to see a gov't find the attacker on behalf of bitcoin.

They probably are still targetting bitmain, it's just after bitmain updated its security it's harder to penetrate so they probably multi-ddosing, trying to get as much as they can.

[aurel57]

Here is the screenshot of the block I found today with one of my miners which I named after a person on these forums and this thread....

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[.....Really?]

Thank you - I'm honoured  

I think everyone who mines on BAN should do that actually - the truth will find you blocks  

@ s0br: Stop being a chicken sh*t & answer the questions like you keep saying you will, or stay the proven scammer you are.

[aurel57]

Thank you - I'm honoured  

I think everyone who mines on BAN should do that actually - the truth will find you blocks  

@ s0br: Stop being a chicken sh*t & answer the questions like you keep saying you will, or stay the proven scammer you are.

Thank you for the laugh!