Was not trying to be funny

My pfSense firewall was acting up, blocking port 443 to simplemining.net .
Can You check why ? - too much requests or "miner virus - normal mining programs sometimes are catched into this" ?
A service called "Snort" blocked 104.22.29.145, so I had to "whitelist" it.
I was unable to find out why though.
"Snort" uses a community maintained sets of rules that I have no control over ...