Topic: SealsWithClubs.eu | Largest Bitcoin Poker Site | No Banking | Fast Cashouts - page 260. (Read 1404012 times)

its not working at my place - cache clearing - browser restart etc- not working...

Anyone who has tried to connect during the outage might need to blow away their cache, reload, or otherwise get past leftover cruft from the downtime.

Looks like I'm the current only login!  I should get a bonus of some kind for that.

Logins:  1.

Thank you FreeMoney  We appreciate all your hard work and the update.......Please keep us update as further developments occur....additionally, it would be nice if Sealswithclubs maintains a email database of their players not only to market to but to update about issues like this that may arise.


Once again, a sincere thanks for the update!

I've caused another problem while trying to fix this and our host is taking longer than expected give the assistance we require now. We were close, but now I'm not sure. I hate to guess, but I think 6 hours is reasonable.

If there is one thing my poker training has taught me, if they say they are Russians, they are almost certainly not Russians.

i understand that flip, I have all the confidence in the world in the seals crew, I'm just curious as to what this all means, as you can see from my questions above....

They're working on things. Relax guys...

any updates? whats happening?  can they do this indefinately?  is there any real way to stop it or trace the source?  I don't know much about this kind of thing..   Thanks!

IMO there is no need to go from 1000 / 1 BTC to 2000 / 1 BTC its pointless. It will be better just to add a zero at the end when its needed, i.e. 1BTC = 10000 chips, when the prices gets close to 100 for example. even earlier it's not problem you can always play 10/20 instead of 1/2

We regret to see a fellow bitcoin business be the victim of such childish attacks, stay strong our friends.
Even google and microsoft have suffered outages from DDoS attacks, dont fret your handling this great.

well put, I wish I could shake his hand in real life, and ditto on the efforts past an present.  Freemoney delivers more than fedex.  Thank you so much freemoney, and thank you as well Micon, I know you also put a lot of great work into SWC.  The site has really come a long way.

Freemoney is one of the most amazing humans I have ever had the pleasure to work with. 

He is extremely talented and has proved time and time again his fairness and dedication to maximum customer service and zero shadiness.

Trust me, he is back there doing all he can right now, and I personally thank him for his efforts both past and present.  I ask for patience while he takes the time to fix this issue the right way.  You know no one wants it back up more than him.

agree with capslock, been playing on seals (and with him) for a long time now.  This could happen to any site, big or small.  Freemoney works his ass off to keep Seals safe, secure, fair, and fun, and does a fantastic job with it.  Ill pray to the BTC gods for you freemoney!  Cant wait to get back on, GL!

If these jokers could play poker they could make much more money than the tiddlywinks they are asking for.

This is the wild wild west of money and online poker.  If you want something more secure or reliable maybe switch to Full Tilt.

Oh wait...

But seriously I have been a player at seals for quite some time...  since the beginning I guess.  And I have known Freemoney to be honest, hardworking and dedicated to a fair, secure BTC poker site.

To be honest SWC should be proud.  They have been an honest site in a sea of shady ones. 

Hackers have taken down or successfully attacked some of the biggest websites in the world...  I am sure Freemoney is hard at work trying to get this one back up and safe against this kind of attack.

could this be Josh Zerlin?

Just a quick idea: what if you  close the http port and only use https port..

Edit: then change the certificate to a self generated, so all clients have to manually accept the connection.

I am in contact with Freemoney and the rest of Seal Team 6 including our Host company.   Freemoney, as usual, has 100% immersed himself in handling this situation as safely and quickly as possible, with safely first and foremost.

we have locked down our servers and will be going very slow to make sure everything is in order before we turn it back on.

A guess that should be considered "Micon's Guess" for a timeframe as honestly and I can estimate in my head is ~ 6 hrs.  If it takes 12 hrs I won't be shocked.  If it takes more than 24 hours I will be shocked.

This is my honest opinion of the timeframe with all the information I have at this time.

I agree with MrKnowITall in that we should have been more prepared.  This attack will make us stronger for the next one but I agree we need to be proactive and thinking multiple steps ahead as we are quickly becoming a nice target.  I full accept your criticism of Seals as valid on not being prepared for this and vow to make site security stronger.

I will also state that SealsWithClubs will never pay ransoms.  I personally believe no BTC site should ever do so if ever unfortunate enough to be in a similar situation.  We must never give in and always fight and help each other.  If another BTC site that I have respect for comes under DDoS attack I will share all information we learned from this experience privately as not to make public sensitive information that could aid future attackers.