So a 4% fee does not include DDOS mitigation?
A 500Gh pool with a 4% fee equals 20Gh of mining power for abcpool.co not to mention other donations.
At an average of $5 / BTC, that's around 16 coins a day for a total of $80. Over 30 days, that's $2400.
Seems like abcpool.co is making enough $$$ to mitigate the attack.
Why aren't you doing this for your loyal customers when you say you have the most reliable pool?
This is an obvious weak link in your reliability.
It's an obvious weak link in every pool's reliability. Not even deepbit will stop a DDoS and they are a much bigger pool with a ton more money pouring in (%3 fee, 3500 ghps, ≈$15,000 per month). How about BTC Guild or Slush? They choke within minutes of an attack and will stay down at the discretion of the attacker. It's not realistic to demand expensive protection from pool operators for these attacks. BTC guild was literally blackmailed to keep a botnet on their server. When eleuthria finally banned him the pool was taken down within hours and didn't come back for
days.
It's a very frustrating time for abcpool. I know they're working around the clock to mitigate the attack and it completely sucks to see your hard work get taken down like this.