Topic: TERRACOIN ATTACK OVER 1.2TH ATTACK CONFIRMD - page 3. (Read 28159 times)

The block explorer is correct. There is a hard fork that happened at 175000 between people that applied the mandatory update prior to that, and those who did not. If you are on the right chain, the client will still at times say you are 'behind' or 'syncing' but you can ignore that. Those messages come because a peer connects to you and says "I have a newer block than you". They talk for a while, -44 client realizes the blocks they are trying to send are no good, and bans the peer for 24 hours.

The pools, BTC-E, and explorer are all in sync and coins are moving properly between them and show up on the block chain.

The key is to check the tooltip for your wallet and if it says "Processing X of Y" where X is the latest block on the explorer, you are golden. Ignore the Y number. You an run -44 with -reindex and it should fix you up, you'll sync as soon as the next block is found and distributed.

Noticed all my mined coins were no longer showing as the same address...

I know this seems far-fetched... but...

Are you guys sure that someone didn't purposely release a "branch" or "update", that makes all miners mine on that address that seems to be getting all the coins? EG, using the credentials of that wallet, thus we are all essentially pool-mining into that one wallet for someones personal gain.

My wallet is filled with mined-blocks with addresses that don't appear on any block-chain. They were all confirmed, then now, mysteriously after the 44 update, they disappeared and no chains have "completed". (Deleted the entire block-chain and nodes, several times, redownloaded it several times, and it always says 8 hours left, and never gets the last 8 hours of blocks.)

Seems someone hard-coded in a fork that was invalid, and there are sooo many versions out there, creating more forks, which are also invalid. I don't think there is a legitimate fork anymore, to build off of. Might be why those who download from the beginning, can't connect, because we actually SEE the audited chain with the invalid block transactions... as opposed to those who are just building off an invalid chain that were once forks, and were not actually audited, since they were hard-coded, and the program told them the chain was correct.

Who exactly decides to add hard-coded blocks into the chain, and "pick" which fork is correct? Apparently they did it wrong, or did that on purpose. (The one reaping the rewards?)

Great, you compile the code yourselves... but do you actually look at the code? That is the whole purpose of compiling yourself... so you can be sure you are compiling something that is not tainted.

Wallets need a way to detect multiple chains, and let us select the ones to mine from. As opposed to just assuming the longest one is real, without actually auditing it, before joining it. (If only for times like this, where every block shows as an orphan, and there seems to be five hard forks. I have seen five "end-block" values in all my downloading... none that are valid, and matching any of the block-explorers, so the block-explorer is on the wrong side of the fence too.)

Well in that case I'll help the network stabilize. Not much just ~3.5 gh/s but its something lol. I just didn't want to start mining and then find out its taking a day or more for a block and everybody is abandoning lol. Personally I hope TRC survives this because I think it has some very important improvements over bitcoin...and somebody else obviously feels the same otherwise why bother to attack it?

well that will teach u for sleeping!! Don't you know sleep is for the weak

Oops, I just woke up. Block 175092 was the 2nd peak, at 99K diff. It's on the way back down now.

Difficulty isn't stabilized yet. The EMA difficulty algorithm swings like a pendulum around the target until it settles down, at least until hash rate changes. So after block 175K it shot up above 400K (because there were so many too-fast blocks before that), down to 5K, now it's almost to 100K but the increases have gotten small enough I'm guessing it's just a few blocks from going down again. It'll probably not go quite as low as 5K, then go back up again but not as high as 100K.

Another "bounce" or two and it should be around the range it used to be before all of this happened. We had a lot of hash power getting us through that first 400K diff hump, but there's a lot less out there now to get through this smaller 100K diff hump.

TRC isn't profitable to mine vs BTC right now, so it relies on people willing to help out to get sanity restored.

Yeah I'm wondering the same. Low hash power and profitability on multipool is scaring me away from running my block eruptors on trc again...

How's TRC status these days?

At least he has to mine at the real difficulty though.

And the supposed attacker came back when difficulty dropped - look at coinbase address starting at 175064

Yes

Does this mean if redpoint has found block 175598 then it's on the wrong chain?

Yup, and looks like last couple blocks were p2pool miners. So they are getting onto the new chain too.

Rebooted pool just now to apply a bfgminer fix that was crashing one of the bigger miners.

coming down in difficulty

9 miners @ 190.41GH/s are mining block 175053 with difficulty 154491. Avg time/block: 58m

if you have trouble with sync - open console and type getpeerinfo

pick all IPs that have "startingheight" : higher than 1750xx

find some tool* and close those connections, if you have a firewall, you can temp block them for a while

at some point you will be connected to unaffected peers and it will sync, when you kill connections it will add new IPs that could be affected too, repeat if you see "0 hour(s) behind"

* I've used http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

Newest block is 175046 ... How many more blocks to get back to normal levels?

Doubtful. Transactions are tiny in bytes. The block itself should be no less than 1 MB. If it took horus for you to download 1 MB something is wrong with your connection.

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175039 took several hours to clear, I'd bet the problem was downloading all the transactions that occurred during that time.

I'm stuck at 175038, 22 hours behind. I'm using 0.1.3-44.

Do I just wait or do I need to take action?

EDIT: Waiting did it. It now says it is up-to-date.

Awesome iluvpcs, thank you!

8 miners @ 224.66GH/s are mining block 175040 with difficulty 351362. Avg time/block: 1h 52m

That should knock a number of blocks out.