Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 905. (Read 4382653 times)
March 01, 2012, 03:55:56 PM
Thanks for being honest slush. Password changed, I'll send a sizeable donation to you tomorrow.
March 01, 2012, 02:40:30 PM
Summary of what happen today:
Somebody hacked my backup machine with pool data hosted on Linode and steal 3094 BTC ("hot" coins ready for payouts). Cold backup was not affected in any way by this hack.
It looks that also user database has been compromised. Although passwords are stored in SHA1 with salt, I strongly recommend to change your password on the pool immediately.
Robery of Bitcoins has no impact to pool users, I'm covering the loss from my own income (although it means that many months of my work is wasted
).
Continue of story: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hacked-linode-coins-stolen-to-1nry8gbx56mymbhdym-66916
Please discuss the issue in thread above, thank you!
Somebody hacked my backup machine with pool data hosted on Linode and steal 3094 BTC ("hot" coins ready for payouts). Cold backup was not affected in any way by this hack.
It looks that also user database has been compromised. Although passwords are stored in SHA1 with salt, I strongly recommend to change your password on the pool immediately.
Robery of Bitcoins has no impact to pool users, I'm covering the loss from my own income (although it means that many months of my work is wasted
).Continue of story: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hacked-linode-coins-stolen-to-1nry8gbx56mymbhdym-66916
Please discuss the issue in thread above, thank you!
March 01, 2012, 11:38:57 AM
Payouts are working again, I'm writing longer story what happen this time...
March 01, 2012, 10:00:19 AM
I stopped payouts few hours ago, resolving one issue. Processing & payouts will be enabled again in one or two hours, sorry for delay.
March 01, 2012, 08:51:03 AM
Looking at the "my account" section seems to show me that the last 4 blocks that have finished confirming have not added themselves into the "confirmed reward" for BTC. I don't know about the NMC totals since I wasn't paying attention there, but I expected a payout overnight when btc exceeded my threshhold total, and that didn't happen. I check on the site this morning and the "confirmed reward" number hadn't risen from last nights number despite 4 blocks I have rewards listed for having finished confirming. Don't know if some prior to those 4 have the same issue since I have a set of 7 blocks before those 4 that list 'none' for me (don't mine overnight).
Something up with the confirmation process or the portion that adds the awards to our totals?
Thralen
Something up with the confirmation process or the portion that adds the awards to our totals?
Thralen
March 01, 2012, 04:04:38 AM
So Slush's Pool has been performing at 93% for the month or more. Is this just really bad luck or am I missing something?
You're not missing anything, two or three weeks ago there was really bad luck on the pool, so 30day average lowered...
March 01, 2012, 12:46:14 AM
So Slush's Pool has been performing at 93% for the month or more. Is this just really bad luck or am I missing something?
Depends on how 'Pool luck' is defined. Anyone have a quick link for lazy person?
March 01, 2012, 12:41:44 AM
About Tor mining - it works even behind strict firewalls, open port 443 is enough.
So if I were to use diablominer would I still need to put port 8332, or could I use 443?Port 8332 is blocked (and nearly everything else).
Do I need to have the bitcoin client installed on every computer that I mine on? I remember once having to create a bitcoin.conf file. It wouldn't even be able to update because of the blocked 8332.
BTW I never solo mine, so that is not an issue.
March 01, 2012, 12:35:31 AM
So Slush's Pool has been performing at 93% for the month or more. Is this just really bad luck or am I missing something?
February 29, 2012, 09:41:03 PM
About Tor mining - it works even behind strict firewalls, open port 443 is enough.
So if I were to use diablominer would I still need to put port 8332, or could I use 443?Port 8332 is blocked (and nearly everything else).
Do I need to have the bitcoin client installed on every computer that I mine on? I remember once having to create a bitcoin.conf file. It wouldn't even be able to update because of the blocked 8332.
BTW I never solo mine, so that is not an issue.
February 29, 2012, 08:17:25 PM
Yes, it's really invalid. You can everytime check it by clicking blocknumber and see details on blockexplorer. here you can see that block is orphaned.
Sorry, I knew that. I just wasn't thinking at the time.
Thralen
February 29, 2012, 01:01:43 PM
All fixed now 
I dunno if slush fixed the invalid blocks manually or whether he's got some script that does additional checks (besides the use of block explorer), but either way it's all good.
Also I must say I am quite happy to see our luck level so high recently. This nicely makes up for that period of bad luck we've had a week or two ago.
Heh, of course the day that we get 4 blocks in the span of 65 minutes overnight is also the night that my computer decided to shut itself off. Why does that never happen during a 10 hour block? I dunno if slush fixed the invalid blocks manually or whether he's got some script that does additional checks (besides the use of block explorer), but either way it's all good.Also I must say I am quite happy to see our luck level so high recently. This nicely makes up for that period of bad luck we've had a week or two ago.
February 29, 2012, 12:43:30 PM
So block 168920 is actually a real invalid? Just wondering...
Yes, it's really invalid. You can everytime check it by clicking blocknumber and see details on blockexplorer. here you can see that block is orphaned.
February 29, 2012, 12:42:01 PM
So block 168920 is actually a real invalid? Just wondering...
Thralen
Thralen
February 29, 2012, 12:39:47 PM
I was on holiday for few days and I was just checking pool few times per day for manual block validations - so sorry for some false invalids. Block explorer looks fine now and also blockchain.info added information if some block is part of main blockchain, so I'll eventually add blockchain.info as fallback alternative to blockexplorer.com.
About Tor mining - it works even behind strict firewalls, open port 443 is enough.
About Tor mining - it works even behind strict firewalls, open port 443 is enough.
February 27, 2012, 12:12:43 PM
Also I must say I am quite happy to see our luck level so high recently. This nicely makes up for that period of bad luck we've had a week or two ago.
Don't speak too soon!
lol I hope I did not jinx it!
February 27, 2012, 11:53:31 AM
Also I must say I am quite happy to see our luck level so high recently. This nicely makes up for that period of bad luck we've had a week or two ago.
Don't speak too soon!
February 27, 2012, 08:41:09 AM
oh nice, why does it need to call sha256 function twice though?
That is what mining is doing. It performs sha256(sha256()) on the block data and a nonce. The nonce is incremented until the result matches or exceeds the difficulty level. February 27, 2012, 04:55:18 AM
I Found my first block too on slush during a 5 hour marathon, or right after. How do I check in block explorer my hash that found the block? Or how do I recognize it's from me?
If you don't log submitted shares, there's no way to check in blockexplorer which block you mined. If you're loggin submitted shares, then sha256(sha256(submitted_data)) == block hash on blockexplorer.
oh nice, why does it need to call sha256 function twice though?
Would I have to be logging in verbose mode?
February 27, 2012, 03:42:43 AM
All fixed now I dunno if slush fixed the invalid blocks manually or whether he's got some script that does additional checks (besides the use of block explorer), but either way it's all good.
Also I must say I am quite happy to see our luck level so high recently. This nicely makes up for that period of bad luck we've had a week or two ago.
I dunno if slush fixed the invalid blocks manually or whether he's got some script that does additional checks (besides the use of block explorer), but either way it's all good.Also I must say I am quite happy to see our luck level so high recently. This nicely makes up for that period of bad luck we've had a week or two ago.
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