I'm very close to detailing a definitive timeline depicting Josh Zerlan, BFL and Pirate's Ponzi scheme connection(s).
But first, try not to laugh too hard at the following chain of events:
Well guys... this is the first major bug in EMC's history. It took over a year, but indeed there was a bug that has completely drained the hot wallet...
I believe I have located the bug and eliminated it... but for the past ~7 hours the pool has been incrementing wallet balances on the same blocks over and over, so people had huge balances and some people have withdrawn the funds.
If any one who has received erroneous funds would be so kind as to return it, I would appreciate it. It all comes out of my pocket and I run this pool at break even on the best of days, and if I'm out over 1000 BTC, it's a bit of a problem.
If you received erroneous fund and are kind enough to return them, I would appreciate it. You can send them to this BTC address: 1hK7oeDzHTYwSG2BXhfzaucJXenHfTTkL
I am currently working on fixing the resulting fall out, but I just wanted to let everyone know what's going on.
As I told you in PM, I got 97.7 and some penny on mtgox.
I will send them to 1hK7oeDzHTYwSG2BXhfzaucJXenHfTTkL
UPDATE:
Funds are on their way (bitcoin transaction: 1571a2309e5701f308f30e19cdbd7b6a1f44a6f2491dcca9ecd6998362ee435e)
http://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/1571a2309e5701f308f30e19cdbd7b6a1f44a6f2491dcca9ecd6998362ee435ehttp://www.walletexplorer.com/txid/57cabceaf82c19e2586774aefdfe82a11f36985e516f9842ae724c88faebc0f7Micro Timeline for this event ONLY:
July 21, 2012, 10:51:08 AM CST: Josh Zerlan requested the return of ~
1000 BTC due to a glitch, declaring that if not returned he'd be in a pitch. Oooch!
2012-07-21 16:39:32 UTC: 97.70049305 BTC is return to Josh Zerlan's
BWA. Oooch! - (minus) ~10% recovered =
.
2012-07-25 04:27:43 UTC: 97.70049305 BTC +
702.29950695 BTC =
800 BTC sent to Pirate's Ponzi scheme accompanied with the following note:
Pirate,
Please accept my apologies for the delay in investing another
800 BTC into your venerable enterprise. I assure you that it won't happen again, but it was unavoidable due to a glitch in my EMC pool
THAT MADE ME SICK. Some day I'm going to sell that fuckin' money losing piece of shit, but until then I have you to
parley my scanty wealth.
Regards,
Josh "My '
I've been known to make perverts look like angels.' sig will dominate your face!" Zerlan
#AskLEO/#askleo
PS: I appreciate you guys stayin' outta my way while I conduct this investigation on my own. Also, please don't waste your time checking my work or commenting on my hours of investigating.
EDIT in the following nugget...I just finished correcting the bug - I definitely was able to identify it and it was located in some code that dealt with really really short blocks, so it didn't get tested much. The test suite I had run on it did not include a very specific set of variables that would trigger the bug. Ugh...
I am very sorry guys. Payouts should not be affected at all, and block processing should return to normal now. There is about 4 million shares backed up in the database, so it's going to take several hours at least to work through them and get them credited properly. No shares are lost since the bug started, but the stats won't show up in your account for several hours. The pool stats are probably going to go wonky now that processing has started again as well.
I had to roll back the user accounts about 8 hours give or take a couple hours... so any payouts you did during that time are gone. Really, this only means you either received funds that are not accounted for, or any payouts you initiated that did not complete are also gone. So basically, some people ended up with a lot more BTC than they should have.
I would like to thank beekeeper for returning 97.7 BTC so far. That helps! I am kind of sick at losing over 1000 BTC to a bug like this, I thought I had the code tested properly, but apparently I missed that one spot. It was some newer code that I had put in a couple months ago, which is why it's only cropping up just now. I normally keep the hot wallet a little lighter than 1000 BTC, but I had let it get a bit fatter than usual while I've been traveling... Well, it's thin now!
So again, I would kindly request that anyone who has received extra funds erroneously return them to: 1hK7oeDzHTYwSG2BXhfzaucJXenHfTTkL
Obviously, I can't force anyone to do that. I will be looking through the accounts and seeing who got paid what that they shouldn't have and see if there's anything to be done about it... but I suspect a lot of the people who got illicit funds were on auto-pay, so when their balance suddenly went way positive, it just initiated auto-payouts and they didn't do anything explicitly on purpose. I know some people have, though... I see a lot of manual payouts happening in the timeframe that the bug was happening. So we'll see how many honest folks we have here!
Thanks for the understanding guys and I apologize again. Share processing is working and will be catching up as fast as it can.