And it's down again, but my miner is reporting shares being accepted so only the front-end seems to be affected.
There were a couple of users that came in and seemingly were able to submit (possibly) fake work... I'm still investigating this but in the meantime both of their combined shares have been isolated. Their possibly bogus shares are no longer affecting everyone's payouts for the round...
Everything should be fixed now. We'll keep monitoring... we're mining internally too... so rest assured something like this won't go unnoticed!
i noticed my stats and some other users on the pool were extremely high yesterday
I had some workers on full failover on the pool and some others on via load balance with eligius and bitsolo as the other 2 and they were reporting correct values for the load balance.. so i think the issue is not "users submitting fake work" it was something wrong with the pool stats, if you look back you can see the total pool hash speed jump around alot. at one point there was a guy with like 1 or 2PH showing in the stats
It wasn't the stats alone... I literally moved the shares of these 2 users outside the main tables... and rebuilt all the statistics... it took some time but all the stat interference they contributed to is no longer there.... There are a couple of new things I added in the backend to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. That particular guy and another are no longer part of the pool.
yeah I noticed the particular guy in the stats is gone, not sure who the other was.. but as long as its taken care of not a huge deal! lets just move on and find a block
s0br, I'm so happy that this matter was mentioned openly in this forum! As soon as I noticed those 2.5 PH/s I've googled the guy's nickname and found him in a couple of forums, but kind of didn't like the atmosphere, so to speak.
I've had not good experiences in a couple pools months ago. I've decided not to mention that and just kept mining, nor didn't want to sound 'paranoid' lol!
I thought those two were part of your team indeed.
As I said, I really appreciate this to have been mentioned, it really helps to build confidence in your projects. Keep up with the good job, man! Cheers to everyone, and c'mon "block", don't be shy!