Topic: MPOE/MPEx has a monster month (Read 3953 times)

This just in:


Slow clap for Fabian, and please go test his client.

Yes, there will be a .onion later today/tomorrow. This is a good thing to have in general, and will be maintained indefinitely, just, MP did not want to bring it online too soon because of concerns that the ToR network might actually not be able to cope. Yes, it's that big.


It is possible and it is being done, as jurov says above. The thing is the person running the proxy must be trustworthy because otherwise this would be just like running an open proxy. The WoT rating comes into play.

Is it not possible to have a "your own proxy in a box"? Running open proxies will get your server DDoS'd, but why not just run the proxy locally for yourself?

Just to remind that while CoinBr was affected and did have outage yesterday, currently it's online and fully functional for paying customers (both existing and new), with exception of live charts and mpex proxy. Other brokers do likewise so trading on MPEx does not cease. 

Maybe there should be a ddospool, guess the author.

Is starting a Tor hidden service an option?

Some really determined attackers there.. I'm guessing it's from SomethingAwful.

Im inclined to agree. The level of professionalism iv seen amongst the business owners on this forum so far is pretty sad.

Twitter?! LOL!
Level of your stupidity is astounding, pr-fluff. Thank you for the link to FAQ written by a moron and located on site that is still offline. Fkn brilliant PR work! Cheers!


Looks like way more people dislike that insignificant Romanian pervert than I ever imagined.
Up yours, mp!
LOL!

At least that didn't take long. 

Anyway, status update:

I. Better proxies are back online. Talk to mpex.coinbr.com for all your trading needs. These should be significantly more difficult to take offline than the last crop. While not impossible, we collectively welcome the opportunity to create a third generation so, mr attacker man, hit it.

II. MPEx main website (mpex.co) is not back online yet. One of the reasons is that we have a whole pile of hardware being assembled, much of it "nonstandard" and so there are delays. Specifically in this case some of the RAID 6 controllers - after being late to arrive - failed to pass our tests. When confronted the vendor explained that well...maybe they're "marginal". We're having stuff reshipped but apparently good quality controllers are rare. This is just "a taste of adventure", there are myriad other various issues I won't be delving into, mostly because nobody gave me the list. Otherwise I'd love to.

It would be technically possible to get mpex.co back online as it is, but MP made the call to first get absolutely everything assembled, working and tested and then bring the main site online. Since trade is going on normally as it is, this approach has on top of convenience an added benefit: I don't think a ddos-er has ever been this publicly humiliated before in the history of the Internet, nor do I think anyone has had so much fun fighting a ddos before.

MPEx is one with the interwebs. It doesn't even need a website.

III. Mpexbot available for trade via IRC. To quote:


The bot has actually been available since yesterday, when it demonstrated a trade:


This is important because it places an absolute limit on inconvenience, which is lower than the previous (trade by email). With the presence of irc bots we know as a proven fact that no matter what happens, as long as someone somewhere can run an irc server, MPEx will be taking orders.

Generally MPEx remains unwaveringly committed to its goals as summarized in the FAQ:


We welcome challenges of those goals with the secure knowledge that no challenge is anything but an opportunity to be seized.

MPEx is back online.     

Glad to see that you guys were well prepared for this attack. I can't wait until trading starts again, hopefully this caused a little panic in under-informed investors, and the rest of us will be able to grab up some undervalued shares. Growing pains are going to happen, it's how the company responds that matters. I have ever confidence that Mpex is going to return stronger than ever. Thanks for keeping us updated, MPOE-PR.

The S.Dice passthrough on Bitfunder is currently selling really cheap... I was able to grab a few thousand at 30% below what the passthrough on BTC-TC is currently selling for.  

Hopefully Blockchain.info will fix their database problem soon, or I'll have to dip in to one of my cold wallets to get more coins into Mpex.  

Nice - just the info I was looking for (IRC is a PITA on this network here) Thanks for the collection of quotes.

good luck

Because IRC is a fleeting medium, here's a collection of quotes for the record:




To add to that: there was a lot of Call interest open earlier in the week, about 80-90k contracts in total. There was also short Put interest (which in effect is long BTC), to the tune of about 15k contracts (worth something like 25k BTC at the time because of the way long Puts work - these were Puts struck at 75 USD per). Most of it closed without problems during the DDOS. By the time price feeds were unavailable during the craziness yest (and so the MPOE bot was no longer quoting) we were not getting any more orders (this would be 10 or so hours before the last proxy went down and trade was halted). Nevertheless if you are holding significant options exposure that you want to unwind immediately please contact MP on #bitcoin-assets to arrange. Fwiw the bot is quoting right now, mostly to itself. 

MPEx should be back online and fully operational during the course of today (March 8th). If that proves impossible there are failover mechanisms in place to ensure people will be able to trade - and yes we will take it to email if need be.

MPEx is forever.

It was at 0.0035 when I posted that message. Still a gain in USD terms, but not BTC at that time.

Like what I said in another thread, it's like someone ddosing NYSE's website and saying they hacked the exchange.

The main MPEx frontend, http://mpex.com is undergoing a DDoS attack, saturating the traffic uplink and causing  the site to be unavailable. The MPEx is unaffected and is still processing trades. You can get to it through a number of web proxies, including this one: http://mpex.coinbr.com.

Mircea Popescu just redirected traffic to whitehouse.gov as a gag (and it might actually give the attackers pause), since it'll be a while before he can solve the DDoS problem.

Shouldn't this belong in the MPOE or MPEx thread?  They don't warrant multiple threads for their news.  Pretty sure that 95% of the people on this forum could give a shit about MPEx outside of S.DICE.

Whitehouse was hacked.

Why is your site redirecting to the whitehouse?  I thought it was secure?