Topic: [ANN][CSC] CasinoCoin - Pool Discussion. UPDATE to V 1.2.x May 19th 2014 - page 3. (Read 13493 times)

As the pool owner of https://www.megamineros.com/CSC i request all other Pool owners to stop bashing each other. We all had startup issues and problems. I was one of the first CSC pools and my servers crashed when mining went from 5 to 150 MHash in less than 24 hours and i lost most users to the other pools. I learned my lesson and i am happy now running only 15 MHash.

If there really are security issues at this moment all the pool owners should know about that so they can take security measures. Even more, most pushpools these days are using TheSerapher/php-mpos software as their frontent, if there are issues with it we need to know and have them fixed in the software because that would not only affect CSC but the entire mining community!

If hackers get into our network they can take the entire CSC coin down with it! Now its not an issue yet but if CSC is going to be used in online casinos we must need to have a stable coin and mining network because otherwise transactions will not be executed with the speed necessary. Mining is about finding blocks for now, but will transit to living of transaction fees in the future. If casino users will not have their transactions being processed because of mining network issues, it will be the end of CSC very fast and thus our profit as well!

So please lets stand together on this! All mining pool owners should be in contact with each other in case of problems or issues (maybe we should create a mailing list for that, including the coin owners)! I already mentioned it various times in the past that Mega Mineros was the only one that secured its web access with SSL. I got ridiculed for that as well bij others but all other pools should do the same, it will cost you about $100 and a few hours of your time but installing SSL certificates is not that much work but can help a lot in keeping at least your users logins safe! No guarantee but all small things help. If others now of steps that will improve security i would like to know as well!

The chain is as strong as the weakest link! That counts for both security measures as the entire CSC mining network and difficulty as well. We need to stand together if we want to make this a success.

Kind Regards,
Andre

PS: I also crossposted this on the main CSC forum, sorry for that but i felt this needed more attention

My pool has had 60 confirms from the day 1. I'm not exactly sure what would be the benefit of fewer confirmations, 60 confirmations only take about 30 minutes or so. But, ask and thou shall receive. I dropped it to 20 confirmations, is that low enough?

I switched to csc.hash.so after coinarmy lost me a fair few coins.

The only issue i have with csc.hash.so is the 120 confirmations. Any chance the would be lowered in the future?

I never had any issues with csc.hash.so.  I've always got my payouts and they been around what they should be.  Has been my goto csc pool for the last few weeks.

I'm the admin at http://csc.hash.so/ and I must say, wow. I wasn't going to say much about coinarmy, but now that they are calling me out I guess I must. My pool has quite a few users, and I'm sure they agree that my pool has had a pretty solid record, no cheating is going on in there.

I have been watching coinarmy every since they had "issues" and ended up stealing 30k CSC or so from their users. (posted about it here)

So:

I chose the hash.so domain because it was available I'm not from Somalia nor do I think 90% of Somalia is a fraud. I haven't heard anything about my pool getting delisted, I think it's just FUD.

I also checked shares submitted by crypto_8888 and they looked pretty legit to me. My pool (and other pools listed in the first post) are performing pretty well, shares estimated versus actual shares are around 107% - 118%. The only one that hasn't been performing well is Coinarmy, and it looks like they have reset the block numbers 3-4 days ago: http://casinocoin.coinarmy.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks

You can look at the other pools and compare the numbers to see which ones are looking weird:

http://csc.hash.so/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks
http://moopool.com/csc/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks
http://csc.dedicatedpool.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks
https://www.megamineros.com/CSC/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks
http://casinocoin.coinarmy.com/index.php?page=statistics&action=blocks

(only the last one )

Edit: also Coinarmy hasn't reached out to me regarding this incident, which seems rather odd, if they think I might be behind the "hacking" of their pool. Faking shares is only possible if you have access to the backend MySQL DB, I don't think it's possible remotely without access...

OMG didn't notice that got turned back on.  You shouldn't have to confirm by email.. sorry about that.  Try now.

Looks like there was an attack over at coinarmy today (or recently). I just wanted to re-post his warning here so hopefully other pools will see it. MooPool.com took steps to improve our security today, but we're still unsure exactly how the hacker managed to fake his shares on coinarmy. Supposedly we will get more information after Christmas. Beef up your security everybody, and stay safe.

Also would you mind updating our server info?

MooPool | http://moopool.com/ | 2% | stratum | PPLNS | VARDIFF

Thanks! I appreciate you maintaining this list. Really seems to be a help.

Hate to be the one to say it but csc.moowh.nl seems like it's been dead for a while now. Does the owner have plans to market it or should we just remove it from the list?

Notice to p2pool ops running CartmanSPC version

Made some changes to the Casinocoin p2pool specs. Please delete your coin data folder and update to the new specs.

Changes:
https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool/commit/384632e9c9ce89237445f276faa7210f599bc0f7
https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool/commit/6db0e9d5c936aedcc57f2ae325826e884845f416

We have also added a few more coins in the source.

Try out MooPool.com if you like. We're up to 85 MH/s atm 

http://csc.dedicatedpool.com - I just created an account on this site - but am not receiving the activation email - and can't login..

As a result of our consistent growth at MooPool.com we have decided to add DogeCoin to the selection! (MooPool.com/Doge/) This coin has gotten very popular and it's our hope that adding it will help bring MooPool some new miners. Thanks to this growth we've also been able to begin developing a custom front-end for the MooPool community with lots of unique features. One of the most exciting features will be the ability to reduce your personal pool tax by referring new members. We will be sure to keep everyone updated as we progress towards the new front-end. In addition, we have decided to raise the CSC pool tax from 0% to 2% to help cover server costs and full time development.

Thanks for mining with MooPool.com! Spread the word!

http://bigiron.homelinux.com:8840

0% Fee - P2Pool - No Registration - No Minimums - Payouts Direct to your Wallet

Stratum Support - Quick & Easy Setup

Instructions:
cgminer: cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://bigiron.homelinux.com:8840 -u wallet_address -p password
cpuminer: minerd -o stratum+tcp://bigiron.homelinux.com:8840 -u wallet_address -p password

Full Instructions here: http://bigiron.homelinux.com.

Thanks for Mining!

I'd just like to thank everyone mining at http://csc.dedicatedpool.com .  We have the best mining community and amazing efficiency rates   Keep up the good work guys

https://www.megamineros.com/CSC

New features:
- Vardiff installed, now miner difficulty is matched with CasinoCoin difficulty. Over the last 24 hours our mining speeds have increased!!
- Pool fee lowered to 1%
- Every block finder is awarded with 1 Bonus coin!

HEAD BACK OVER TO Mega Mineros, and try for yourself!! If you have difficulties with your account or settings, contact us via the support contact form or sent and email to: [email protected]

Remember to add all three stratum servers to your cgminer.conf (also as backup servers to others!):

The currency hoppers are back again    the net hash rate jumped from 200 to 500 and next difficulty will rise from 1.9 to 3. The hoppers will then probabbly leave again. It would be really nice if we could prevent this somehow, otherwise mining casinocoin will never get entirely stable.

Yeah, my pool dropped from 150Mh/s to 50Mh/s in the past couple of days. I guess everyone is now mining Dogecoin, which is something that I didn't expect to happen

So has everyone else noticed a notable drop in the network mining rate? The total network is sitting around 250MH/s now. I know we experienced a large bump due to coinwarz listing CasinoCoin as the most profitable for a while. Is it safe to assume this is CasinoCoin's more natural hash rate?