Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 970. (Read 4382653 times)

pekv2: It means attack is still here.

Sorry but I don't comprehend "means - attack moved to new pool instances".

Any better way to describe that in layman terms?

Thanks Slush.

"Hm, attack moved to new location." means - attack moved to new pool instances.

omg, wtf, not @ you slush but the fuckheads doing this. I've lost 5 hours of mining I believe, waste of power.


omg.




What assholes would do this? That bitcoinexpress fucker?


Website is still down. I'm very confident you'll get it all sorted.

Hm, attack moved to new location.

definitely looking that way...

Think it went down again, connected after it was up, checked back and it was back at connection problems.

My miners still will not connecting to Slush. Using the pull down to select Slush in gui miner. Should I switch it to other and input the ip manually?

Yes, looks like it is an attack to all major pools. Personally I don't understand this effort. Except that is fed up some people like me, because reconfiguring pool is stupid and boring job, it has no long term effect on Bitcoin economy.

seems so... https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/surely-this-isnt-a-51-attack-on-bitcoins-right-47958

There is still one balancer restart ongoing, but it will be up in less than one minute. So don't panic for few connection errors (it's enough that I'm panicking

BTCguild is having intermittent connection issues as well.  Is everyone under attack?

good job on the quick response...

It was large scale DDoS, but pool is back up. IP has been changed, please check that your miners connected correctly.

I made one small mistake with fixing website, so it will be up in one hour as well.

Edit: As a hotfix, http://api.bitcoin.cz works as website access, too. However SSL certificate is invalid because of different domain, of course.

DeepBit is usually my backup pool as well. I just jumped over to Ars.

Looks like all large pools are being targeted.  Go for a small pool or solo mine.  The 3 rigs I have on slush I dropped to solo.  The two rigs on bitminter (small pool) are unaffected.

Sad.
I had backup on deepbit, but it also under attack, so I use to another pool

People if you have a backup pool you may want to use it temporarily as aggregate hashing power is way down.  Looks like deepbit is having trouble also.

Pool is under attack, I'm working on it. Sorry for downtime .

I think I may understand.  He wasn't part of Slush's pool when Slush started merged mining, so is mad because he wasn't told so he could switch to this pool and be part of the first in.  In that respect, tough.  I don't believe anyone is owed foreknowledge as to how to be on top at all times.  If you were here, you were here; if you weren't, you weren't; and if you didn't know what was going on, welcome to the world.

I can understand the confusion when all of a sudden blocks are being found at a much accelerated rate.  I can understand the potential feeling of watching an opportunity slip as obviously someone/pool/whatever is now boosting the processing power and you don't know which team to switch to.  But this isn't underhanded, nor is it something that needs to be publicised.

I understand I am in a position to "luck out" as I joined with Slush as my first pool and have never left.  But it could just as easily been any other pool.  And it wouldn't have been my right to know that DeepBit or any other pool, did or was going to do it so I could be there from the start.  If you feel cheated because Slush didn't announce when this was going to happen (though he has mentioned much in the forums that he was working on it and would make it happen when he could) don't.  There was no cheat.  This wasn't underhanded.  This didn't undermine anything or anyone except prices...but that is what you get for speculating and it happens to everyone in the market.

If I am getting it correct, I understand your disappointment and frustration, but it is misdirected.  Slush didn't do you wrong...he was just the first to begin the transition just like when CPU mining got usurped by GPU mining.  Those mining with GPU's weren't doing anything wrong or underhanded, just mining more efficiently in a manner that went previously undiscovered.  CPU miners I am sure were bummed watching their mining methods turn to worthless almost overnight, but they weren't owed anything.  It was progress, plain and simple.