Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 97. (Read 379078 times)

I'm on useast and I'm not having any problems at all. I'm in florida so I'm fairly close to the server.

seems useast is having major problems? can't see what my account stats are on the site, and last night was filled with invalid shares and longpoll errors.

URGENT NOTICE

When I tried logging in this morning to btcguild.com, I realised I couldn't do it. I then tried logging in mtgox.com as well with no success. I then tried logging in my gmail account which is tied to both mtgox and btcguild, and realised the password has been changed. I recovered my gmail password, which then I reset my btcguild.com password. When I log in to btcguild, I found that my email address has been changed (my prior email address with a "1" appended at the end of it, eg originally [email protected] became [email protected]), as well as my payout address has been changed. Luckily, I had payout lockout enabled so the hacker could not retrieve the funds yet. As of this moment, I'm still unable to recover my mtgox account password. I've sent in a help request through the support forum to freeze all my assets asap and I'm now waiting for their reply.

I urge everyone to change their mtgox and/or btcguild passwords asap, there may be some security vulnerabilities in either of these sites or my computer. I'm not sure whether I've been hacked or what, but everyone please becareful.


edit:

I still cannot change my email address back to my original gmail account, because I cannot change my email address within 24 hours, that means the hacker could still have access to my account via the new email address to change passwords. eleuthria if you are able to read this please check your pm. I have sent you my account name. Please disable all payouts until further notice.

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The username and email I use for btc / mtgox are the same, although the passwords are different. The email also happens to be the same as the one used in this forum. I realised that I got hacked after I made a few posts on the bitcoin forums, I don't know whether the two are related.

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eleuthria, do you keep logs of the wallet ids that were changed? During the panic, I changed the wallet ID back to my own wallet without first noting down the wallet of the hacker. It would be useful to know the hacker's wallet id at least, to see if anyone else has been similarly hacked and had their bitcoins sent to that address.

In your GUIMINER folder there is a file called "server.ini". Copy it to somewhere else on your computer (e.g. desktop), then open the copied file with a texteditor, search for the btc guild entry (it's the third in my file) and change the  "host": "btcguild.com"     to    "host": "XXX.btcguild.com"   where the xxx represent the subdomain like nl or uswest!
The close and end your guiminer, make a backup of the original server.ini in your guiminer folder, then copy the modified server.ini in your guiminer folder. Restart guiminer, should work!

Had problems logging in as of now. It said password error. When I tried to reset my password it said username not found.

You setup your own "other" miner, in which case you're given a option to configure almost every aspect of your mining session.
There you specify the server details [the server you're connecting to] and use one of the above option is you're planing to mine on BTCguild.

Im not at home so unfortunately I cannot post a screen guide.

How do we do this if we're using guiminer?

A counter to [Tycho]'s Laissez-faire strategy, nice.

I actually guessed those subdomains and found useast had the lowest ping times for me, if you expect more turbulence, perhaps I should get to coding something to keep my miners on the best server.

Sorry, what's difficulty 2 shares?

Thank you

CPU miners can still handle difficulty 2 shares in a reasonable time, and they'll be worth twice as much.  It will increase the variance for them a bit, but in the long run it will average out.  The pool would have to get an average block solve time of under 15 minutes (which would require over 50% of the network if difficulty was roughly accurate, and I won't allow the pool to reach that level even if the users tried) before it could really hurt a CPU miner.  That is the point where some CPU miners would have a hard time getting a single share completed before the next long poll.

Doubling the difficulty?! CPU miners need not apply.

Tomorrow afternoon I will be switching pools over to difficulty 2 shares.  I will also be changing the way the pools are handled until I can work getting multiple servers in a single datacenter to do -real- load balancing (2+ pool servers behind a frontend that relays connections to the pools).

I'm posting this on the website as well:

  PLEASE POINT YOUR MINERS TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
    uswest.btcguild.com
    useast.btcguild.com
    nl.btcguild.com
    uk.btcguild.com

Miners pointed at btcguild.com will be forced into one of the new servers I'm putting up.  Miners pointed at eu or us.btcguild.com will be forced to another server.  This will likely overload a node until people move to a proper URL.  After 48 hours I will be removing the eu and us sub-domains, and eventually the generic btcguild.com will point to a web-only server and not work as a pool host.

The pool will remain this way until a proper server cluster is setup at one of our hosts that will allow the setup I spoke about at the start of this post.

I'm getting to much idles on my miner... it's normal?


using the us.btcguild server

I knew you were clever, but that was downright cunning.

How about BitKat?

I knew the kitten would keep out the complaints/questions long enough to get a good night of sleep.

The pool is going to be receiving a few updates soon, possibly tonight, but more likely tomorrow:
   1) New custom DNS server that will cause users to "stick" to a specific pool server when using generic btcguild.com
     1b)  The custom DNS server may also be able to keep loads truly balanced if it can handle the initial traffic we put onto it.

   2) Difficulty 2 shares.  I'm working with the IRC channel to make sure we properly modify pushpoold to run on a difficulty 2 share system.  The net benefit of this is it will cut the SQL load in half, and roughly cut the getwork load in half, which will result in much higher capacity per server.
      2b)  This will give a slightly higher variance in rewards, but it would even out very quickly over a few rounds.  Each share will count as '2', so that people could compare our shares per block to the average without doing any extra math.

   3)  US Central and NL2 servers will be up by next weekend.  With the switch to difficulty 2, this should mean our pool's network could handle roughly 4 TH/sec given an even distribution among the the servers.

Cute, yes, yes it is.

BUT

cat hair + 2000 CFM of airflow = BAD!!!!

I have to conciously avoid spca's and adoption sections of pet stores for this reason....I have a spca and trash dumpster cat already, always super tempted to adopt more. MUST RESIST THE KITTY FEVER