BTC Guild is still down. 48 hours now.
They are switching to a "DDOS Hardened ISP" and "expect to be up late this evening".
What is the best pool to join right now?
I don't know if it's the 'best' but I've been using Deepbit.net without any problems.
I fail to see whom we doing Number Chrunching for ?
I fail to see whom we doing Number Chrunching for ?
If I understand correctly, we're doing the calculations for the people making bitcoin transactions.
Perhaps I was not clear.
I meant to ask how do work load ( Number Crunching)
Helping any body in real life.
For example like Forcast Model ?
Well if you're looking for a meaning like SETI looks for signs of extraterrestrial life, then
the hashes that we compute help to verify transactions on the network. That's it. Nothing altruistic, nothing not related to bitcoin. We are just making sure that the coins that got sent from person A to person B were actually sent from person A to person B.
Yea I wanted to see from SETI prespective.
Now what you said. Sound like we are doing Whole lot of Nothing ?
I haven't had any problems with Slushs pool today. Although lately I feel like i'm the only one in that pool. It never seems to get mentioned.
I don't know whats going on with slush's the last two days.
I'm down to ~0.012 AVG from ~0.025 with 1GHash/s mining power. Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
the ddos is cyclical. slush and deep got hit 3 weeks ago. they took the necessary actions to fix with whitelists. guild didnt seem to get the message and left their system the same. whoever waits for the ddos to hit rather than doing some preemptive security is going to get hit next.
forming a pool isnt that hard, but the backend payout system is probably the real pain.