https://www.bitcoins.lc/
they are reporting some random dc's and some DDOS but havent had any downtime yet
they are reporting some random dc's and some DDOS but havent had any downtime yet
I'm finally going to withdraw some funds from dwolla from BTC sales and I noticed it's asking for my PIN. Is that some sort of dwolla pin setup when first registering the account? I can't imagine it would be asking for my debit PIN as that would be crazy but I can't remember setting up a different pin when I first opened the account.
deep has a whitelist, it'll keep bots from spamming client requests. But apparently this is a brute force ddos flooding the router.
lol, i think a bunch of people network-wide just gave up and stopped mining. probably going to wait out the storm with their rigs off. they may have gotten tired of running home to restart the mining client.
What's the best non-ddos mining pool? LOL
0% fees, and uptime of awesomeness?
We should make an AT one!
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.
I've got cpu power servers if we really wanted to...
why is deep down then? if they're "prepared" haha
I've seen DDoS last weeks ... waiting it out isn't really a good idea.
and 0% fees would mean you are doing it for free.gee if only I had more spare time to tie up.
not sure I would want to responsible for that much currency
and 0% fees would mean you are doing it for free.
yeah but if you have a dozen rigs with multiple cards on headless linux and dont have dummy plugs(and you dont setup alternate client targets) then you have to:
-connect keyboard
-manually connect each card to a monitor
-run the client command line to whatever pool you think might be stable
-disconnect the monitor and kb
repeat for each card in the farm.
and if that new pool is hit, you have to start all over. not including setting up miner accounts at each new pool.
i imagine it gets old fast.
I fail to see whom we doing Number Chrunching for ?
Generation
In order to make sybil attacks against the block-chain consensus practically infeasible, the generation of a Bitcoin block requires finding the solution to a difficult cryptographic proof-of-work problem. Nodes which are attempting to generate blocks are called "miners". They repeatedly try solving instances of the problem through trial and error, each attempt having an equal and very low prior chance of being a correct solution. The probability of success is adjusted automatically by the protocol[citation needed] in steps after 2016 blocks have been created to regulate the rate of new block creation. As a result, the rate at which a given user will solve blocks depends on the computing power that user contributes to the network relative to the computing power of all nodes combined.[24] All newly announced blocks are validated by all Bitcoin nodes to ensure that they conform to the protocol rules before they are accepted, added to the block chain, and forwarded on.
Because block solutions arise out of an independent random process, block creation by the Bitcoin network can be described as a Poisson process. The protocol adjusts the problem difficulty so that the distribution mean is λ = 2016 blocks per two weeks, so there are roughly ten minutes between the creation of new blocks on average (the wait times between events in a Poisson process follow an exponential distribution). The difficulty updates happen every 2016 blocks. The difficulty is set to the value that would have most likely caused the prior 2016 blocks to take two weeks to complete, given the same computational effort (according to the timestamps recorded in the blocks).[25] All nodes perform and enforce the same difficulty calculation.
In addition to the pending transactions which are confirmed in the block, a generating node adds a "generate" transaction which awards new Bitcoins to the operator of the node which generated the block. The payout of this generated transaction is set according to the inflation schedule programmed into the protocol. The process of solving blocks is often referred to as "mining", a term analogous to gold mining in reference to the coins brought into existence by the generate transactions.[1] The "miner" which generates a block also receives the surplus from any transactions that have input value in excess of the output value, effectively a transaction fee which provides an incentive to give a transaction priority for faster confirmation.
The proof-of-work problems are especially suitable to GPUs and specialized hardware. Because of the growing computing power behind the system driving the difficulty to high levels, individual contributors with typical CPUs are no longer likely to solve a block on their own but can still receive part of the Bitcoin generated in a new block by contributing their processing power to a mining pool.[26] This increased difficulty makes it cost prohibitive for an attacker to perform double-spending attacks so it is beneficial to the system.
The number of Bitcoins created per block is never more than 50 BTC, and the awards are programmed to decrease over time towards zero, such that no more than 21 million will ever exist.[10] As this payout decreases, the motive for users to run block-generating nodes is expected to change to earning transaction fees, funding from supporting auxiliary block-chains,[27] and simply to improve the security of the public Bitcoin infrastructure they depend on.
Thanks Man
Say Do I need to run BiCoin P2P software (Not Minner) and what this software do for us ?
Anybody else getting a message about deepbit.net's security certificate, or is that just me?
Ok.
I've got 2x 5830s that just came in.
I set it up on my DFI NF4 Ultra-D board. If I remember properly, this isn't an SLI board because I didn't get the SLI version, but I'm sure it should accept 2 cards right? It has dual PCI-e x16 slots.
I installed Catalyst and somehow under Adapters I only see 1 card. However in Device manager in Win XP, I see two Radeon 5800s. GUIMiner only sees 1 card. Grrr...
Both cards are clearly powered up as I see both in Device Manager. Power is not an issue (or shouldn't be). My PSU only has dual 6 pin connectors, and so I had to use 2 Molex adapters for the second card. To make sure the second card wasn't failing or anything, I swapped the power connectors so the first card was using the Molex adapters while the 2nd card was using the 6-pin connectors. I'm just not sure if there's something on this stupid board I'm missing as to why my 2nd card isn't showing up.