[BOUNTY] Open Source pooled mining platform with web interface

[genewitch]

Well heck, I'm glad I started this thread!  Two new open-source pools with front-ends = mission accomplished!

I'd start a pool myself, but I don't have the guts to go up against the DDOSers that seem to run rampant across the pools.

I've been thinking about DDOS attacks myself, Once I get enough BTC I will be able to get a good server and try this idea out I have with firewall permissions. You know deny everyone from the pool accept those that have authenticated their IP address before connecting, That way the server just will not respond to those IP address unauthenticated.
This would probubly deffinalty slow down attackers as they'd have to authenticate every single netbot and if they have 1000000 netbots coming from 1 ip address it will shut them out. Simple as that .
This will be in a couple of months from now after my pooling software is perfect but still a dream i have for the future of pooling services
tell me what you guys think in terms of flaws, and maybe how annoying it might be to authenticate your ip address everytime

Even if you reject packets at your router the DDoS still clogs your incoming bandwidth. It's Denial Of Service - an easy way to deny service is to overload your proposed authentication server, just pass tens of thousands of spurious requests from spoofed IPs and it bogs down, denying service to your users who actually CAN authenticate. One of the only ways to mitigate DDoS today is to have the ISP kill the connections from their gateway - and you have to be a decent size to manage that.

I can actually think of a few ways that cost a bit of money per hour to run that could nearly completely remove DDoS attacks from the pools and front ends specifically, but i'll keep those to myself until someone offers a BTC bounty, since i'm technically in the business of selling such novel solutions.

Xenland - you ever need some quick security advice you know where to find me.

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[Xenland]

Alright guys, Tons of new features, Internationalisation, API for workers and pool check it out
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10617.0

Version 4 the public release, evertying is tested, the Internationalisation dosen't have an interface yet so you must change manually in the functions.php page
Translations Welcome
PM me the attachment translations thanks a bunch!

[Xenland]

Did everyone that bountyd ditch this thread, just like the bitcoin explaination video bounty all over again.

[Xenland]

Yet again, I put all my time and effort to full fill a bounty then everyone leaves no one was awarded the bounty or what?... this community is really starting to get re-dickulas!

[SgtSpike]

Yet again, I put all my time and effort to full fill a bounty then everyone leaves no one was awarded the bounty or what?... this community is really starting to get re-dickulas!

I hear ya.  I'm sorry, I should have held the btc in escrow for you guys... 

[Xenland]

Yet again, I put all my time and effort to full fill a bounty then everyone leaves no one was awarded the bounty or what?... this community is really starting to get re-dickulas!

I hear ya.  I'm sorry, I should have held the btc in escrow for you guys... 

Nah definably not your fault I should have expected the same out of the rest of the community which is get ripped off.
Time-Greedy bastards

[davout]

I gave freeborn info on how to setup bitcoin-pool, waiting for feedback to add what they think is missing

[Xenland]

Good luck with that, I messaged him showing a good working example of my pool, he replied I'll have to check it out! I haven't heard from him scince, I think its been a week now. Like i said guys there no need to be helpful to the community. Too many scammers out thurr I suppose... people want free stuff with out wasting time. I think we got played out of our own niceness. I'm not just using this one situation for my gloom view of the bitcoin community, This would be the third time I got ripped, and the 2nd time every bailed on a bounty of high interest. This might be my last post on these forums I'm just that nauseated with this community in genereal such an empty feeling of giving and never getting.

[SgtSpike]

So neither of you have heard anything from any of the three bounty-givers?

I'm going to make one final contact via PM.  If they don't do anything about it, I'm leaving them negative feedback at my website.  It's just absurd that people say they are willing to give bounties, then don't back their word up with action.

[SgtSpike]

Xenland, it sounds like you are in contact with gusti, and he says that the pool isn't yet polished enough/doesn't meet all of the requirements.  Are you still working on it, and do you plan to fix the things that he has issue with?

[davout]

Xenland, it sounds like you are in contact with gusti, and he says that the pool isn't yet polished enough/doesn't meet all of the requirements.  Are you still working on it, and do you plan to fix the things that he has issue with?

Maybe he should make a public statement about what he expects

[SgtSpike]

Status updates:

gusti would like to see an example pool for each of your pools up and running with miners connected to show that it is working well.  I think this is a reasonable expectation.  If you know of someone using your pool code, post a link to their website.

darbsllim mentioned that one of his requirements was PHP, so only Xenland's solution fits that requirement.  Last he heard, Xenland's code was a big resource-hog, but I pointed out someone who is running his pool successfully with what appears to be very little resource usage.  (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10617.msg303237#msg303237)

No reply from freeborn yet.

[davout]

gusti would like to see an example pool for each of your pools up and running with miners connected to show that it is working well.  I think this is a reasonable expectation.  If you know of someone using your pool code, post a link to their website.

Yes, absolutely, I will provide a pool running on testnet so it's easy to see that the payment handling code works as it should, and that the block handling and everything else is also ok.

I'll post here in less than 24h.

[gusti]

hello gentlemen, sorry for delay, coming back to deliver bounty
did not read the entire thread, but I was told we currently have 2 bounty winners, xenland and davout

xenland : more testing is needed, your pool has no traffic, anyway I will deliver 25 btc, and seek for further testing, pls confirm your address

davout : can you pls point me to any live install of your pool ?

[SgtSpike]

Not to butt in too much, but since I have the answer to the question you had for xenland, here's a working pool running his code:  http://mine.tenobis.com/

[d3c0n808]

As far as working examples of xenlands pool software there are two examples I know of that are running on the real block chain.  First off there is http://mine.tenobis.com/ and Also my test pool which also runs on the real block chain which can be found at http://d3c0n.net   Tenobis runs at 5ghs, d3c0n runs at 2.5 and has been running for a week or so now...  The color schemes for both are not default but the layout and features are.   

[simplecoin]

If it's any consolation. My pool software was based off of Xenland's v1 setup. It is being used by several of the top10 pools now Several of them in the 50+Ghash range.

While it's not the same, it wouldn't have become what it is without his initial base.

[Xenland]

My test pools are the ones that were posted above which were(http://mine.tenobis.com/) (http://d3c0n.net/)
I've checked them both out and they look both update to date with my software.
Further testing is scheduled this week(before sun) and the update release for any reported bugs to GitHub will be fixed before sun.
Thanks for the support guys

Any bounties can be sent to the following address: 12QY5HYbiT5Nx6fek8ss5pAywPsV3kqdu3

[freeborn]

hola, Im actively testing xenlands and davouts code..  will deliver bounty when I have a test server up and running.

[Xenland]

Hey there freeborn, Glad your back! All bug reports can be sent to my Mining Farm  thread over at http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10617.0 I happen to be doing testing and development today. Have fun mate