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No miner should be visible on the net.
If there is any access to it, that is not via a VPN, then sooner or later someone will hack it and change the settings.

For a home miner, it should be behind the router and not have any rules to access it from the net, ever.
If it's in a datacentre, it should be the same, no way to access it from the net, except via a secure VPN.

A miner in a datacentre is at risk to hacking by anyone who has access to the datacentre.
A miner visible on the net is at risk to hacking by anyone on the planet.

FYI: I wrote the API in the miners (it is completely disabled by default)
I told Bitmain they shouldn't leave them open as W:0/0 but they didn't give a shit coz that meant more work for them to change their original bad choice of doing that.
They made that choice coz they wanted to simplify setting up their own datacentres.

It would appear that they at least changed that finally in the S9s - though I'm not 100% sure.

Apologies that this is not kano-specific, but I'd thought it good to post anyway (@Kano feel free to remove if you find the post inappropriate).

OK, just had something not very nice happen to me... someone stole my hashrate! I was getting a 4th pool entry in my GUI that was posting somewhere else. As I was filtering HTTP access I was confused as to where this was coming from. No issues for 3 months, suddenly my hash rate got diverted (only noticed after a few hours unfortunately).

Seems some versions of the antminer software have the API enabled by default. It runs on port tcp/4028, so make sure that you filter access to that port on your firewall/router/whatever. Probably you can fix it in the antminer itself as well, but I have not been able to find a proper description for this (have not looked very hard either).

https://imgur.com/a/Uq6TN

The user is 'xoox' on Antpool ... see screenshot.

Be warned!

Yeah, I fully admit that I have gold fever BAD!   If I didn't have gold fever, I would want it! hehe I really do enjoy gold mining as well, but don't have time for anything large scale and I have taken a real beating because of how much work it is.  Fun work, but it takes its toll.  4 hernias and 2 torn rotator cuffs didn't cure my gold fever.  But bitcoin mining is a much easier way to obtain it. hehe  Although, there is nothing like panning concentrate!  My only complaint about bitcoin mining is that I need more power!  I am at the limit of my wattage availability with the S9s I have running, otherwise I would have many more.

Block by blockmines!  

This is our 1st of BLOCK THURSDAY!

Nice big fat one at 14+

I'm really kicking my self over not selling my dredge back in January to buy more btc mining equipment which it. I have very little desire to prospect for gold after my dad and mining partner passed away 10 years ago.  Tho every day I wish he could be around to see the btc mineing. esp when he was one of the earliest people to see the potential in crypto currencies long before btc even existed when there was some digital money called egold which he seen as being more useful the gold for conducting longer then arms reach trades.  Which most gold bugs cant see past there nose or emotional attachment to gold as the main drug of choice when they have been bitten by the incurable disease known as gold fever.

The best thing to do in these situations is to PANIC...sell the kids...sleep with the rich fat chick next door for money for electricity bill.
Whining always helps.


Lol even if times were better if you can sleep with the rich fat chick next door to get her to pay for your electric bills i say GO FOR IT. 

Its like my dad always said to me when I was a kid.  If you can work from the next up rather then the neck down is best but if you ever get a chance to get paid from the waist down JUMP ON IT.   :-)

Common Tymora, Goddess of luck!

I've been here for a LONG time. Won't go anywhere else. And...I've done Slush, and Antpoo, and another, for periods that gave a real indicator. The key is simply patience. Luck is what it is, and it isn't going to be any different on another pool. What matters is how much you're earning from each block re your hash rate, and that can't be beat...not how many blocks are found in a given period of time.

Start pulling your pubic hair!  Lmao 

Thanks for the thought...but it's not about gold. I've had an account with a gold broker for many years, and they'll take my coin. Getting it to USD is the challenge, and Hawai'i's bozo board...oh, excuse me, banking board...is apparently staying up nights coming up with nonsensical regs to protect their fiat-based interests. I've got the USD thing fixed, thanks to Kano's info.

This is the place to get clear, honest answers to really important (at least to the asker) questions.

No kidding!  Where is the emoji of rubbing greedy hands together and cackling?  There is nothing I like better than gold.  I love gold.  Bitcoin mining has replaced my shovel and sluice for mining gold.  And I am not even exaggerating.  I sold my sluice. 

Heh, yeah when 1 BTC is worth more than 3oz of Gold, it makes for interesting times

I don't know why I didn't think of telling you this before, since it's what I do.  Hawaii can't stop you from purchasing gold bullion with bitcoin.  I would gladly give you a link to a very reputable site that accepts bitcoin as payment for bullion and coins, but I saw Kano say that he deletes posts that have referral links. If you want the link, just PM me.  The one I buy gold from actually charges less for gold and silver if you pay in bitcoin than if you pay with a credit card.  Considerably less.  I feel that gold bullion in my hand is far better than dollars in the bank, but then I don't need a single dime of what I mine in bitcoin to make ends meet.  It's all "prepping money" for me.  I store half in bitcoin and half in gold.  I just got a Trezor, because I was starting to get nervous about keeping too much bitcoin in a wallet that can potentially be hacked.  As far as selling the gold back into dollars, that's easy, although you want to do it when you get the best rates.  It's sort of cyclic.  There are a lot of places in Honolulu that buy gold, but I doubt they pay the best rates.  I have thought about starting my own "We Buy Gold" business. hehe  The place I buy it from also buys it back, though at reasonable rates.  Overall, with the exchange rates, you may lose a little, but you also have the chance of making a little more.

Ah so that is what that stat is for...
Gee whiz Kano you sure know how to cheer a new miner up..

Reminds me of a thing my dad used to say..
Cheer up things could get worse..
So I cheered up and sure enough things got worse.

I am mining at a huge loss, but have only been on the pool since Oct 1st.  I guess I picked the worst week in the history of the world to join.    On top of that I have one S9 with 2 hashboards out for repair.  I ran out of hair to pull out.  At least I am well in the black.  Or, I should say, well into the GOLD, since I have converted much of the bitcoin I have mined into American Gold Buffalos.    My Antminers mine gold bullion.

Sigh ... for those new to mining ... a few things:

1) a little table of CDF statistics

So e.g. 1 in 20.1 blocks is EXPECTED, on average, to be more than 300%

2) The CDF[Erl] says what the chance is of getting the same or worse result.
e.g. last months CDF[Erl] of 0.7642 means that you expect 1 in 4.24 months of 47 blocks to be 90.18% luck or worse.

3)
If you are mining at a loss when the pool is paying an average of 99.80% PPS like last month, you need to pick something else to do ...

Well this really sucks..
At this rate my mining op will not survive it's first months electric bill.
Very surprised to see this kind of variance with 90+ Ph..but the diff is a bitch ain't it.

The best thing to do in these situations is to PANIC...sell the kids...sleep with the rich fat chick next door for money for electricity bill.
Whining always helps..

I turn to Middle Earth in prayer to Elbereth.



Grant us safe passage through the isles of chance on the journey to the blessed bitcoin realm.

Haha! Yea and my wife had to drive me home!  I did do the math right anyway but I typed the wrong "B" for the units!

Had some network problems at the Silicon Valley node that's part of stratum.kano.is

Problem started at 04:47 and failed over everyone on that node.
It has only just now been resolved by the provider - so it was on and off, affecting a couple of Petahash for almost half an hour.