Topic: 📈 NastyFans: The Bitcoin Enthusiast Fan Club (est. 2012) - page 46. (Read 959540 times)

I believe the letsencrypt renewal or fix for this is just 2 command-line strings. I just went through this not too long ago. Having to recert every 2 or 3 months is a pain, but it does increase security.

Yes, most things NastyFans are basically not working currently.  Luckily, this does not impact NastyMining operations.  Please remain patient as nonnakip finds the time to resolve the outstanding issues.

Firefox is now flagging the Nastyfans site:

"nastyfans.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 4:47 PM."

I am hoping this quarter.  The only guidance we have received so far is to be patient.  I am continuing operations as normal, and am still raising funds for my solar dream in the meantime.  This week we will mint our 2oz .9999 gold coins, so we are progressing.  I hope to announce our next silver coin in the coming weeks as well.

Any estimates on when distributions will begin again?

Funny how it's literally the internet's fault that the s7 wasn't working.
(Okay, not really, but close enough!)

Glad to hear it's back up though.

One of our S7's has been down for about 24 hours.  After looking into it, it appeared to be due to a firmware issue that relied on a 114.114.114.114 DNS server in China that has gone down.  I have updated the firmware and things are up and running again.  

EDIT:  Machines went down again for a few hours on 4/23 because my internet went down... 

Very cool!

PM sent.

Hey guys,

I have 10 S5 machines (11550GH/s) with Bitmain which is about to expire from cloud mining and I am thinking of donating those machines to NastyFans. I just want to see if there's an interest to accept them in? If the shipping costs to wherever your mining operations are can be covered/reimbursed, I'd be happy to arrange it once the machines have been decommissioned. Thanks.

Jet

The 2oz .9999 Gold NastyFans Minted Seats have gone into production.  Payment has been finalized and a $5,000 donation has been sent to NastyFans.  This payment also includes our recent mined coins from Eligius.

https://blockchain.info/tx/d9ba461adb76658fde1c8c0015a765a45873eadcdfe25256d5a67b1555a76ae7

Here are the most recent quarterly performance numbers.  I am predicting the current quarter will have the highest (USD) distribution amount in more than 2 years.

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I'm not sure it would warrant the effort.

For another source of some income, has mining coins such as Gridcoin been considered on the miner controller boxes?

Wow! Thanks quite an adventure! Keep us posted on how things are working out. I'm curious about these new plans aswell. Thanks for your hard work!

I'm looking to implement Electrum instead of the heavy Bitcoin daemon on a personal project of mine. It wouldn't be a bad idea to use Electrum on the transaction server

TL;DR Many services on nastyfans.org not working correctly. I am alive. I will fix everything. No distributions will be lost. I ask for patience.


And now full story...

In middle March I had privilege of traveling to meet OgNasty again. There was long talks of current mining situation and the fanclub and current to-do items and the future of Nasty. It was sometimes difficult discussions because some things like P2Pool situation is not good. But in the end we traded many interesting ideas that I hope someday come to be reality. I look forward to discussing these ideas with the fanclub. Some ideas I see OgNasty already presenting: NastyPool mining and nastyfans policy.

During my travels the Bitcoin-Core on our transaction server died. Hard. This was the reason the 2016-03-18 distribution did not happen. After I return home I see many LevelDB errors. I spend some days trying to recover LevelDB database but it was a mess.

I decide that once LevelDB is corrupted there is not much to do except redownload the full blockchain. So I do that but it takes 5 days. This was the reason the 2016-03-25 distribution did not happen.

Unfortunately after successful download of full blockchain LevelDB corruption happens again. It is not hardware errors. Instead the problem is not enough RAM on transaction server. Bitcoin-Core is C++ and this is bad when out of memory errors happen. Things just start crapping themselves. So I move wallet to a fatter server so I can push out 2 missed distributions. After download of full blockchain again I think I am ready. But I make a mistake in moving over transaction server software. This resulted in accidental partial payout. More verification is necessary to be sure all missed and future distributions are 100% correct. This was the reason the 2016-04-01 distribution did not happen.

This week I rethink how the transaction server works. I do not like reliance on Bitcoin-Core because it is a house of cards and a memory pig. I am looking now at creating raw transactions on a server with no blockchain and only keys. I think this makes more sense. Since still there is no transaction server running this is the reason the distribution for today will not happen.

Many nastyfans services are based on transaction server. The JSON services. The auction. The account balance tracking. The distributions. None of these services work since about 4 weeks. I try to get these online again soon but as life has it I am very busy these days. So I find little time for it. I hope this post relieves some questions about what is going on. I look forward to reducing depedency on Bitcoin-Core but it is not a quick change. I ask members for patience and trust that things will return to normal so we can move forward (like bring new online shop online that I mostly programmed in airplane to OgNasty). Luckily we have a public ledger so no Bitcoin can be lost.

I am looking to sell my personal seats to fund the panels.  I think this is a good way for me to turn my equity in NastyFans into a positive for the organization.

ahh great, thanks for taking the time to respond.  Now the funding for the solar panels, are you more looking to sell seats to fund it or are you also interested in taking out loans to do so?

There's an issue with bitcoind that is making things a little screwy at the moment.  Seat purchases along with statistics are not working.  It is also delaying distributions.  This has no effect on our miners and will be resolved eventually.