Sorry, maybe I missed something but why NL1 and NL2 servers has dissapeared from BTCGuild website before it goes offline?
Does that mean thease servers will be swithched off forever? I have most short ping to NL1...
Now both of my miners switched to deepbit authomatically, but I like BTCGuild and wait forward with hope.
Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 69. (Read 379078 times)
July 05, 2011, 01:26:40 PM
July 05, 2011, 12:29:37 PM
I had just pointed the first ATI card I've got at BTCguild and left it running on a system I can't get at until later this week.. was in a hurry so I didn't set up a a failover.. doh!!!!
July 05, 2011, 12:18:18 PM
Time for website functionality restoration pushed back about 1 hour. Pages should now be properly redirecting everybody to the ddos explanation page.
Before bringing the "My Account" page back online, I'm adding some extra security checks to the payout code to make sure a payout doesn't get recorded to the database without its matching txid showing that it was successfully procssed by bitcoind.
Before bringing the "My Account" page back online, I'm adding some extra security checks to the payout code to make sure a payout doesn't get recorded to the database without its matching txid showing that it was successfully procssed by bitcoind.
July 05, 2011, 11:53:05 AM
how is it the main page https://www.btcguild.com/ says the servers are under a 'normal' load, yet i can not connect to any of them? i see the my account page is still down though. can someone please make sense of this. i get the feeling that I'm the only one that cant connect since it says they are under normal load D:
July 05, 2011, 10:42:11 AM
The account balance of the botnet has been donated to Bitcoin Faucet.
While I enjoy the "revenge" and "justice" of denying them their money, I think that legally, it was not the proper thing to do. Courts decide how to award damages, not site owners.
No, the Mining Pool owners decide how to award coins. If you don't like it, mine with another Pool, this is not a legal arrangement.
I for one agree that BotNets mining against pools are illegitimate users and anything can be done to their proceeds.
However, I would have donated them to the pool operators, since they're expending costs just to fix what the botnet is NOW doing to them.
July 05, 2011, 09:58:30 AM
Yup. I presume he set the A record to loopback because of the huge incoming DDOS.
July 05, 2011, 09:55:20 AM
So is it me or is the A record for btcguild.com set to 127.0.0.1?
nslookup:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: btcguild.com
Address: 127.0.0.1
(confirmed from multiple ISP's)
nslookup:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: btcguild.com
Address: 127.0.0.1
(confirmed from multiple ISP's)
July 05, 2011, 08:48:23 AM
Not in this wild west reenactment.
The (Not so) "Wild" West was actually a very pacific time. Movies needed action and shots, but its not how reality was.
Maybe not (I'm no historian) but the analogy from the movies stands.
July 05, 2011, 08:45:26 AM
Not in this wild west reenactment.
The (Not so) "Wild" West was actually a very pacific time. Movies needed action and shots, but its not how reality was.
July 05, 2011, 08:42:25 AM
Thanks for all the hard work eleuthria and for keeping us informed. Much appreciated.
+1
July 05, 2011, 08:07:36 AM
The account balance of the botnet has been donated to Bitcoin Faucet.
While I enjoy the "revenge" and "justice" of denying them their money, I think that legally, it was not the proper thing to do. Courts decide how to award damages, not site owners.
Not in this wild west reenactment.
What do you suppose a court would rule anyways? That all the BTC generated should go to the botnetted computers? How? Whats your solution? IMO only one option was available and that was exercised by BTC Guilds site owner.
July 05, 2011, 08:03:32 AM
The account balance of the botnet has been donated to Bitcoin Faucet.
While I enjoy the "revenge" and "justice" of denying them their money, I think that legally, it was not the proper thing to do. Courts decide how to award damages, not site owners.
Botnet activities are illegal and cost a lot of money (not only the site owners). So I think that was the right decision!
July 05, 2011, 07:59:25 AM
That's right. I hope the botnet owners come to the place where eleuthria lives to sue him because they want their 6BTC back.
Of course, eleuthria might sue them as well, and all the guys with infected computers, so I predict there will be no court involved. Donating the coins was probably the right thing to do.
Of course, eleuthria might sue them as well, and all the guys with infected computers, so I predict there will be no court involved. Donating the coins was probably the right thing to do.
July 05, 2011, 07:52:17 AM
The account balance of the botnet has been donated to Bitcoin Faucet.
While I enjoy the "revenge" and "justice" of denying them their money, I think that legally, it was not the proper thing to do. Courts decide how to award damages, not site owners.
July 05, 2011, 07:48:37 AM
Run Chris Howie's bitcoin mining proxy on your rig. It provides multi level instant failover to other pools in case your favorite pool has any kind of problems. Your miners will just keep mining and never even know there was a problem. I love this program.
The newest poclbm makes this unnecessary - the software supports multiple servers with failover. Of course if you're running another miner...
July 05, 2011, 07:45:36 AM
I'm really liking btcguild but man.... all these times I keep having to change servers is getting old. I know it's not your fault. Good luck on getting it all fixed and set up!
Run Chris Howie's bitcoin mining proxy on your rig. It provides multi level instant failover to other pools in case your favorite pool has any kind of problems. Your miners will just keep mining and never even know there was a problem. I love this program.
I use Diablominer I use -f 1 for my main pool and -f 15 for my backup. mainpool has a blimp backup goes to 100% main pool comes back backup goes back to 1-5%
and because you can run all GPU's in 1 window. I only have 2 windows open.
I know its down and dirty but it works well. Might try that chris howies thing but. If something works why change it.
July 05, 2011, 07:40:37 AM
BTCMine is my backup.
July 05, 2011, 07:31:17 AM
What pool are you guys using while this is down?
July 05, 2011, 07:03:53 AM
I'm really liking btcguild but man.... all these times I keep having to change servers is getting old. I know it's not your fault. Good luck on getting it all fixed and set up!
Run Chris Howie's bitcoin mining proxy on your rig. It provides multi level instant failover to other pools in case your favorite pool has any kind of problems. Your miners will just keep mining and never even know there was a problem. I love this program.
July 05, 2011, 06:40:32 AM
that answer might have never have come because cloudlfare is more or less useless (at least from my experience and what i have heard).....
useless? good enough for lulzsec plus 40 thousand sites http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/06/22/lulzsec-fuels-growth-at-cloudflare.html
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