Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin: constellations POW *CPU* HARD FORK successful, world record
My theory is:
Poloniex suspended the wallet because their node got constantly ddos'ed. They try from time to time to bring it back online, but it does not sync, because of all those fake shadow nodes in the network. They will eventually delist the coin then.
My node got ddos attacks as well (offline now .. can't be bothered to bring it back online ... it had a constant connection to polo and btc38 ... which was good for my own mining (not doing that anymore either)). It was pretty stable for more than 2 years until the attacker started to destabilize the network and the one pool with the biggest hash power started to disconnect itself from the network for longer periods of time (for whatever reason ... my best guess ... dDos ... my worst guess ... selfish mining).
Things we can do:
- Poloniex will only talk to the main dev of the coin to take any advice on how to get the wallet back on track. So Gatra please do so!
- A more decentralized mining operation is needed ... 4 pools and a lot of solo miners ...
- Optional: Start tracking the attacks back to the source ... and kick his/her ass.
one4many
I wouldn't expect Poloniex to have their wallet listening for incoming connections. My personal wallet maintains connections only to trusted nodes via connect= parameters and has no issues. It also helps to reduce MilliSleep in net.cpp prior to compile to ensure that if the nodes you have chosen get kicked offline, they are reconnected very quickly
Example:
@@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@
OpenNetworkConnection(CAddress(vserv[i % vserv.size()]), &grant);
MilliSleep(500);
}
- MilliSleep(120000); // Retry every 2 minutes
+ MilliSleep(5000); // Retry every 5 seconds
}
https://github.com/riecoin/riecoin/blob/0.10.2/src/net.cpp#L1425
