Quote from: BITMAIN_Janet on March 12, 2015, 04:22:57 AM

Quote from: chunkyjunkie on March 12, 2015, 03:08:15 AM

Quote from: Ritvars on March 12, 2015, 02:45:11 AM

Hello miners, this is my first thread here and I decided to write finally because of recent actions by Bitmain team and miners reactions in chats.

I know that recently (5th of March 2015) Hashnest has made a website changeover which led to some coding pitfalls in the front end and experienced S3 cloud account earnings miscalculations, as one of my friends runs it and has reported miscalculations, nevertheless Hashnest team has kept its promise and refunded the miscalculated earnings/maintenance of Bitcoins. I personally hold a blend of S4 and S5 therefore I really did not experience any downside of the changeover.

Unexpectedly on the 11th of March 2015 all of us who are on Hashnest received an email saying that the network might or has been compromised by DDoS attackers and that the company has initiated to take strategic steps to protect its users from the compromise and establish a security layer. There was a level of uncertainty and doubt weather it was held true, but after seeing that the company has started to implement CloudFlare protection layer to their services made the points clearer that something is being done about it, the question arose in me, exactly when it would get done? I nervously monitored with my mate https://www.antpool.com/poolStats.htm pool and block mining performance stats and correlated that with the recently low luck which reached its low of 57%. Also we took a peek preview in https://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=24hrs and saw that at one point during the day the AntPool went to 8% market share, compared to what it originally was around 15% few days ago.

Then in order to find out more what I decided was that I called customer service help desk directly to find out what the situation is at present time with the outage and the technical issues Hashnest had ran into. An American service representative Joe answered to all my questions regarding the outage due to the facts described above, also there was a network failure as Hashnest has got miners in multiple locations, in the US, Europe and China. We all logically know that all pool works in a network as a chain and if there is an outage somewhere then we will experience an overall hashrate drop. Thankfully that is being fixed. And my point here is that I am glad that there was somebody to take my call and answer my investor related questions. I give credit to Joe.

Now at the time of writing 12th of March 2015 the front-end protection layer has been implemented (good): http://prntscr.com/6fp49s
The Antpool's hashrate distribution percentage has gone up by 2% from 8% to 10% in few hours (good): http://prntscr.com/6fp4js
And the duration of getting a block has beneficially reduced, and the Antpool's hashrate has gone up getting closer to the original speed of 60 PH/s (good): http://prntscr.com/6fp6s1
Lastly, after fixing the reported network attack and failure, the Antpool's luck has skyrocketed from lowest experienced during outage 57% to cosmic 178% (good): http://prntscr.com/6fp78c

WHAT I WANT TO SAY HERE IS NEVER PANIC, ALWAYS LOOK AT STATISTICS, COMPARE MULTIPLE SOURCES BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY JUDGEMENTS. I GET NERVOUS TOO, BECAUSE IT IS MY MONEY THERE, MY FRIEND HAS MONEY THERE, HOWEVER KEEP CALM AND LET THE ENGINEERS DO THE JOB AND SORT OUT THE SYSTEM.

p.s. I believe in Hashnest because I have visited Bitcoin Expo this year, spoken with developers, monitored other cloud mining companies out of which 95% I found is scam, so my suggestion to everyone is always rely on statistics, thorough research, and credible facts, rather than "free cookie today, no wallet tomorrow". Good luck mining!

Thanks for sharing.

Bitmain is one of the few companies I trust, but all of them make me nervous.
Coinbase and cryptsy are about the only other 2 I have any trust in as well.