Topic: [LTC] Is the Litecoin network being attacked ? - page 2. (Read 2951 times)

27/May/2013
You may have noticed extremely large blocks and round times over the past 24hours. This was due to multiple issues with finding blocks. This issue was affecting multiple pools for most of the day. We are still unsure of the cause but we have no reason to suspect it was due to issues on the litecoin network, will continue our investigations on this and give more information when we have it. So far things seem back to normal but we are keeping a firm eye on things.
If you are experiencing frequent disconnections contact us ASAP.

Payouts below expected difficulty are sometimes normal as pool luck can go up and down.  Know your payout system.

5/25/13 - Pool Luck
As many of you have noticed the pool luck has been very bad the past 2-3 days and payouts therefore have suffered. We went from finding normally 80-90 blocks a day to finding 56 one day and in the 60's another. As your payouts are 100% based on the number of blocks we find, you will have most likely noticed lower payouts than normal.
While bad luck is possible we started to suspect other issues and worked with one of the litecoin devs to try to get to the bottom of why we werent finding the correct amount of blocks and see if it was just bad luck or other issues. We looked at many possible vectors of attack and diagnosed our connection to the litecoin network, latency of getting work, etc. We have identified a few possible vectors of attack and a few possible network issues and took steps to make changes to block these and improve the latter. Since making those changes we found 10 blocks in about an hour and luck drastically improved.
We will not be describing the possible attack vectors for obvious reasons as they are not well known or common and we cant confirm any of these vectors even were being exploited. What we do know is that things seem to be resolved and now that we are fiding the correct amount of blocks we expect payouts to go back to normal. We encourage all users to track blocks found on the block chain, every block can be traced back to the pool or person who mined it, we will be changing the pool mining address every 2 weeks starting tomorrow (this changes nothing for you, just makes it easier to check pool blocks found on the block explorer) to aid users in this process. Thank you for all of our dedicated miners who have weathered this issue and realize the value in our pool. We have worked non stop on this for the past 30 hours to work this out and will continue to monitor it closely.

Hi. I am Warren Togami, the lead developer on Litecoin-0.8.x. I am better known as the Founder of the Fedora Project, and I have worked on other open source projects like Spamassassin, K12Linux and Cyanogenmod. I spent the last two years in grad school. I need to clarify some points here.

Were you mining at weminetlc.com ?

Even at current diff I should have been making 3 ltc a day, but I was making roughly 2.

pretty sure the difficulty went up a couple times

I also want to know. I haven't found this info anywhere else, and my payments have been low the past week or so.

I also want to know. I haven't found this info anywhere else, and my payments have been low the past week or so.

Probably right, I'm not putting on my tinfoil hat just yet.

5/27/13 - Crazy Night

For those of you not in our irc or on btc-e trollbox, etc its been a crazy night for litecoin and several pools. Things got a little weird on the litecoin network, pools got together with litecoin devs to try and work it out. The pools and devs are working together to get to the bottom of things and we will pass it along to you guys as we find out. In the meantime the pools are working together to sure up the network and keep data between pools consistent and clean. It's been a pretty crazy few days with ups and downs but we have been working around the clock on this and will continue to do so. As soon as the issue came up on the network tonight we got on it right away, LTC is ok, no need to panic, LTC devs are taking things seriously and are working just as hard. Consider sending a donation to the ltc devs to help support their great work and new development: https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php?topic=3874.msg27452#msg27452 - With the linking of pools and changes we made we hope to block any more of these attacks.