If anyone wants to know exactly what happened, here's the post mortem report from CloudFlare about the outage:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515
Topic: [1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff] - page 246. (Read 837101 times)
March 03, 2013, 10:37:13 AM
March 03, 2013, 08:11:59 AM
Phew. We (and half the internet) are back. I hope this is a rare occurrence with CloudFlare.
Edit: That's a lot of websites that went offline:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/cloudflare-is-down-due-to-dns-outage-taking-down-785000-websites-including-4chan-wikileaks-metallica-com/
Edit: That's a lot of websites that went offline:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/cloudflare-is-down-due-to-dns-outage-taking-down-785000-websites-including-4chan-wikileaks-metallica-com/
I slept through it all! I was lucky my hash dropped from 6Gh to 4Gh now back to 6Gh. I did not have to do a thing!
March 03, 2013, 06:02:41 AM
Phew. We (and half the internet) are back. I hope this is a rare occurrence with CloudFlare.
Edit: That's a lot of websites that went offline:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/cloudflare-is-down-due-to-dns-outage-taking-down-785000-websites-including-4chan-wikileaks-metallica-com/
Edit: That's a lot of websites that went offline:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/cloudflare-is-down-due-to-dns-outage-taking-down-785000-websites-including-4chan-wikileaks-metallica-com/
March 03, 2013, 05:28:30 AM
CloudFlare is dead in the water. Unfortunately we use them for DNS, so you can't look up any bitminter.com hostnames right now.
Some miners are still at the pool mining. You can use 176.9.104.178 instead of mint.bitminter.com and keep mining. But remember to change it back once things are in order again, otherwise things won't work the next time the mining server moves.
I hope CloudFlare will get their systems up shortly.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Some miners are still at the pool mining. You can use 176.9.104.178 instead of mint.bitminter.com and keep mining. But remember to change it back once things are in order again, otherwise things won't work the next time the mining server moves.
I hope CloudFlare will get their systems up shortly.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Just changed the address. Seems to work.
March 03, 2013, 05:25:12 AM
CloudFlare is dead in the water. Unfortunately we use them for DNS, so you can't look up any bitminter.com hostnames right now.
Some miners are still at the pool mining. You can use 176.9.104.178 instead of mint.bitminter.com and keep mining. But remember to change it back once things are in order again, otherwise things won't work the next time the mining server moves.
I hope CloudFlare will get their systems up shortly.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
10X DocSome miners are still at the pool mining. You can use 176.9.104.178 instead of mint.bitminter.com and keep mining. But remember to change it back once things are in order again, otherwise things won't work the next time the mining server moves.
I hope CloudFlare will get their systems up shortly.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Fast and accurate as always!
Best
March 03, 2013, 05:20:30 AM
CloudFlare is dead in the water. Unfortunately we use them for DNS, so you can't look up any bitminter.com hostnames right now.
Some miners are still at the pool mining. You can use 176.9.104.178 instead of mint.bitminter.com and keep mining. But remember to change it back once things are in order again, otherwise things won't work the next time the mining server moves.
I hope CloudFlare will get their systems up shortly.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Some miners are still at the pool mining. You can use 176.9.104.178 instead of mint.bitminter.com and keep mining. But remember to change it back once things are in order again, otherwise things won't work the next time the mining server moves.
I hope CloudFlare will get their systems up shortly.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
March 03, 2013, 05:13:09 AM
I don't think the problem was with bitminter. A HUGE number of websites just became unaccessible recently. A few people in my chat (in different countries/continents) were having the same issue loading a significant number of websites (including sites like ozcoin, blockchain.info, bitfunder, and even imgur).
Dude,
The site is OK and server also DNS is broken which means that after some time usaly up to 8 hours you will be not able to resolve the site ip and it will look like site never existed. I do not know about other sites mentioned:)
March 03, 2013, 05:11:44 AM
Doc,
It seems that there is problem with bitminter.com DNS
[snip]
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Pls do check it out
Best
It seems that there is problem with bitminter.com DNS
[snip]
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Pls do check it out
Best
I don't think the problem was with bitminter. A HUGE number of websites just became unaccessible recently. A few people in my chat (in different countries/continents) were having the same issue loading a significant number of websites (including sites like ozcoin, blockchain.info, bitfunder, and even imgur).
March 03, 2013, 05:02:52 AM
Doc,
It seems that there is problem with bitminter.com DNS
http://tracert.com/resolve_exe.html?arg=bitminter.com
More
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>
> server 8.8.8.8
Default Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
> set q=ns
> bitminter.com
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to google-public-dns-a.google.com timed-out
> google.com
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
google.com nameserver = ns3.google.com
google.com nameserver = ns4.google.com
google.com nameserver = ns2.google.com
google.com nameserver = ns1.google.com
>
---------------------------------
Pls do check it out
Best
It seems that there is problem with bitminter.com DNS
http://tracert.com/resolve_exe.html?arg=bitminter.com
More
--------------------
>
> server 8.8.8.8
Default Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
> set q=ns
> bitminter.com
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to google-public-dns-a.google.com timed-out
> google.com
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
google.com nameserver = ns3.google.com
google.com nameserver = ns4.google.com
google.com nameserver = ns2.google.com
google.com nameserver = ns1.google.com
>
---------------------------------
Pls do check it out
Best
March 01, 2013, 08:38:14 PM
okay i am like you in that i sell my coins as they come it. mentally the idea of holding on to them is something I was not able to do.
you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
you mention an offline usb stick for storage how would i do this? tia phil
March 01, 2013, 07:47:09 AM
it is back up.
https://walletbit.com/
one of the reasons I always sell my coins is fear of storage.. i have earned 250 plus coins but never held more then 10 or 12 at a time.
On one hand I would have liked holding them all, but on my other hand if I had 250 plus coins in walletbit for the 20 plus hours it was down I would freak.
i've never kept more than 5 bitcoins just because i've always sold them as i wenthttps://walletbit.com/
one of the reasons I always sell my coins is fear of storage.. i have earned 250 plus coins but never held more then 10 or 12 at a time.
On one hand I would have liked holding them all, but on my other hand if I had 250 plus coins in walletbit for the 20 plus hours it was down I would freak.
but if I intended to keep a sizeable amount, i wouldnt use any online wallets, i'd just store mine on a usb flashdrive (and make a backup on a 2nd usb flashdrive), removed from computer when not transferring coins
February 28, 2013, 07:18:59 PM
it is back up.
https://walletbit.com/
one of the reasons I always sell my coins is fear of storage.. i have earned 250 plus coins but never held more then 10 or 12 at a time.
On one hand I would have liked holding them all, but on my other hand if I had 250 plus coins in walletbit for the 20 plus hours it was down I would freak.
https://walletbit.com/
one of the reasons I always sell my coins is fear of storage.. i have earned 250 plus coins but never held more then 10 or 12 at a time.
On one hand I would have liked holding them all, but on my other hand if I had 250 plus coins in walletbit for the 20 plus hours it was down I would freak.
February 28, 2013, 04:51:58 PM
Is this a temporary issue or shutdown permanently?
If you go to myid.net it redirects you to another site which displays a message in korean. It's an image so you can't paste it into google translate. But one miner told me that myid.net have shut down permanently.
February 28, 2013, 02:23:16 PM
The OpenID identity provider myid.net appears to have shut down. If you can't get into your BitMinter account because of this, contact me at [email protected]
Haven't seen that one. An online wallet? I hope it's temporary.
question about walletbit.com
Haven't seen that one. An online wallet? I hope it's temporary.
Is this a temporary issue or shutdown permanently?
February 28, 2013, 01:25:58 PM
yeah they are an usa online wallet company.
I just converted all my coins (7) last night from wallet.bit to fastcash to paypal. I have always held coins less then a week. So it is not like I have a lot of coins in the wallet. So if they have a big problem I am lucky in that I have under .5 coins in the account.
My method is earn 4 to 8 coins then cash them into paypal or an amazon gift card.
I just converted all my coins (7) last night from wallet.bit to fastcash to paypal. I have always held coins less then a week. So it is not like I have a lot of coins in the wallet. So if they have a big problem I am lucky in that I have under .5 coins in the account.
My method is earn 4 to 8 coins then cash them into paypal or an amazon gift card.
February 28, 2013, 01:17:08 PM
The OpenID identity provider myid.net appears to have shut down. If you can't get into your BitMinter account because of this, contact me at [email protected]
Haven't seen that one. An online wallet? I hope it's temporary.
question about walletbit.com
Haven't seen that one. An online wallet? I hope it's temporary.
February 28, 2013, 12:11:36 PM
question about walletbit.com it has been down for 20 hours. I get
Hi, our servers have taken a short break
Hi, our servers have taken a short break
February 25, 2013, 02:03:16 PM
How does the pool take into account the miner's higher difficulty set point that would correlate to a lower submitted hash rate and the payout share?
It pretends like one proof of work mined at difficulty 32 is 32 proofs of work at difficulty 1. So the payout is fair, but there is a little more variance at higher difficulty. As far as I know this is how all the pools handle variable difficulty.
If you want to know more about that I'd suggest you check out organofcorti's blogpost about it: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2012/10/71-variable-pool-difficulty.html
Cool, thanks for the insight, and I'll run through that blogspot ...
February 25, 2013, 01:35:30 PM
How does the pool take into account the miner's higher difficulty set point that would correlate to a lower submitted hash rate and the payout share?
It pretends like one proof of work mined at difficulty 32 is 32 proofs of work at difficulty 1. So the payout is fair, but there is a little more variance at higher difficulty. As far as I know this is how all the pools handle variable difficulty.
If you want to know more about that I'd suggest you check out organofcorti's blogpost about it: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2012/10/71-variable-pool-difficulty.html
February 25, 2013, 01:15:36 PM
Something like this (the 'Diff 32/8' means that the target difficulty is 8 and the submitted share had a difficulty of 32):
In your case with a speed of 24Ghps you may see a difficulty of 16. As for setting this yourself, no, currently that is not possible at BitMinter. It is automatically adjusted by the pool based on your hashrate.
In your case with a speed of 24Ghps you may see a difficulty of 16. As for setting this yourself, no, currently that is not possible at BitMinter. It is automatically adjusted by the pool based on your hashrate.
How does the pool take into account the miner's higher difficulty set point that would correlate to a lower submitted hash rate and the payout share?
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