What happened to bitcointalk when the btc prices rampaged?

sadpandatech

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Quote from: BadBear on July 17, 2012, 02:27:44 AM

Quote from: notme on July 17, 2012, 02:26:29 AM

Quote from: theymos on July 17, 2012, 02:10:33 AM

Quote from: pekv2 on July 17, 2012, 01:57:20 AM

I bet man, sent it soaring through the roof.

You think the the pw encryption had anything to do with it as such a large amount hit the server at once? Since it is technically new to the software? Or atleast to us? Or new to your hardware?

I doubt it. Hashing one password takes only one-twentieth of a second, and it only happens when someone logs in.

Quote from: pekv2

Gosh, to bad the user count got wiped or didn't have a chance to be used today. Would have been exciting to see.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

So 20 simultaneous login attempts per second with random credentials is all it takes to lock up a core? Hopefully you at least limit login attempts per ip so they have to use a botnet or a bunch of proxies.

I think it's more likely a problem with MtGox, they've always had issues with heavy volume. God forbid anyone actually use their exchange.

+1 The outage just happened to be right as the order book took on MASSIVE shuffling.

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Quote from: notme on July 17, 2012, 02:26:29 AM

Quote from: theymos on July 17, 2012, 02:10:33 AM

Quote from: pekv2 on July 17, 2012, 01:57:20 AM

I bet man, sent it soaring through the roof.

You think the the pw encryption had anything to do with it as such a large amount hit the server at once? Since it is technically new to the software? Or atleast to us? Or new to your hardware?

I doubt it. Hashing one password takes only one-twentieth of a second, and it only happens when someone logs in.

Quote from: pekv2

Gosh, to bad the user count got wiped or didn't have a chance to be used today. Would have been exciting to see.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

So 20 simultaneous login attempts per second with random credentials is all it takes to lock up a core? Hopefully you at least limit login attempts per ip so they have to use a botnet or a bunch of proxies.

I think it's more likely a problem with MtGox, they've always had issues with heavy volume. God forbid anyone actually use their exchange.

notme

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Quote from: theymos on July 17, 2012, 02:10:33 AM

Quote from: pekv2 on July 17, 2012, 01:57:20 AM

I bet man, sent it soaring through the roof.

You think the the pw encryption had anything to do with it as such a large amount hit the server at once? Since it is technically new to the software? Or atleast to us? Or new to your hardware?

I doubt it. Hashing one password takes only one-twentieth of a second, and it only happens when someone logs in.

Quote from: pekv2

Gosh, to bad the user count got wiped or didn't have a chance to be used today. Would have been exciting to see.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

So 20 simultaneous login attempts per second with random credentials is all it takes to lock up a core? Hopefully you at least limit login attempts per ip so they have to use a botnet or a bunch of proxies.

pekv2

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oic, cool. Was hoping for little bit under the record of 3809 (June 19, 2011, 02:56:13 PM)

Uh well, maybe next time.

Serge

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shortly after bitcointalk was down, mtgox went out too, strangely mtgoxlive was responding although feeds were frozen for a significant period of time

btw MTGOX, if you're reading this, when are you going to fix live part of mtgoxlive site?

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Quote from: pekv2 on July 17, 2012, 01:57:20 AM

I bet man, sent it soaring through the roof.

You think the the pw encryption had anything to do with it as such a large amount hit the server at once? Since it is technically new to the software? Or atleast to us? Or new to your hardware?

I doubt it. Hashing one password takes only one-twentieth of a second, and it only happens when someone logs in.

Quote from: pekv2

Gosh, to bad the user count got wiped or didn't have a chance to be used today. Would have been exciting to see.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

Bitcoin Oz

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Wat

Someone trying to calm speculation is my bet.

yogi

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Hamster ate my bitcoin

There was a news story recently where a bunch of traders were ddos'ing news sites to stop the flow of information and give them an advantage in the market.

Could that be what happen here?

pekv2

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I bet man, sent it soaring through the roof.

You think the the pw encryption had anything to do with it as such a large amount hit the server at once? Since it is technically new to the software? Or atleast to us? Or new to your hardware?

Gosh, to bad the user count got wiped or didn't have a chance to be used today. Would have been exciting to see.

theymos

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I don't know. sshing into the server always timed out, so I couldn't investigate. My guess is that it was caused by a lot of traffic.

pekv2

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Quote from: phantitox on July 17, 2012, 01:48:36 AM

million dollar question Undecided

I wanted to see how many active users that were on.

I heard a few other places went down as well.

myrkul

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FIAT LIBERTAS RVAT CAELVM

Well, maybe not million dollar, but probably worth at least a few hundred BTC.

phantitox

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million dollar question Undecided