looking forward to exchange rate increase

My miners have Eligius as a backup, and I'm seeing it down. YMMV.

It burped. Knocked my phoenix clients over to alternate, but all my CGminers are up and running on ABC.

Jesus, yeah, good point. If they're just flooding a single address like that, I'm sure Amazon would just shut them down before they could do any unique whitelisting.

I figured their user-base was fairly... "static", the same primary users generating a big chunk of the relatively small 500GH/s. If you could quickly and easily enough whitelist those users... at least you'd maintain a good chunk of service.

Obviously it'd screw over everyone NOT on that whitelist, but letting me some people mine is better than nothing.

I have never seen efficiency levels that low on CGMiner. I can't fathom getting 12%.

What are you people doing on your PCs at the same time as CGMiner? I'm assuming they're not all dedicated PCs, but even on my most "inefficient" machines, I'm looking at 80+%, when they're actively being used.

I was under the assumption the pool operators were all driving Ferraris.

Are you suggesting my impression was wrong?

I guess I have to ask, since I'm curious: I'm going to guess a big chunk of your miners come from the same IPs, right? So, like, I'm sending you ~20GH/s from IP X.X.X.X. And BobTheMonkey is sending you 20GH/s from X.X.X.X, day in, day out. The log has to show that same traffic pretty constantly.

I have no idea what is required to prevent a DDOS, and I'm not about to claim I do. But in a fairly "small" operation like this (and, realistically, it is pretty small; you're looking at, what, ~550 or so clients connected?), couldn't you just whitelist all the "known" (or at least, say, the "big" known) IP addresses, and block everything else?

I'm assuming of course that only the pool.abcpool.co address is needed to allow mining, and the DDOS attack isn't screwing up something else on the back end.

I'm sure, 100% guaranteed, that my logic is wrong somewhere, but in a purely binary world, I assumed you could just block all traffic to that address except your "known" good miners (such as me, the most attractive member in the world).

Bummer. They'll eventually subside. Gave me an excuse to correctly set up my fail over though; I had clients going to like 15 different pools, made it a bitch to find all my money

Kinda neato to watch it in action like that.

Looks like whitelisting may have begun; a good chunk of my miners at my primary location are back, but alternate locations (and thus IPs) still showing down.

Assuming they're not doing anything underhanded (which I don't think they are, since, well, I get paid what I expect), the "allure" of "seeing the blocks you've found" is simply that: something to look at and "brag" about.

Kinda cool? Sure. What *MOST* people in a pure PPS pool are looking for? I sort of doubt it.

Hash rates seem oddly low this morning, but my miners all seem to be fine. Issue with reporting, mayhaps?

The mobile formatted site is quite possibly the cleverest thing ever.

Nah, it all looks good. As long as it stays up and the notifications work, I'm happy as a lark.

I done moved over ~11 clients. Yee. Haw. Let's see how she goes.

Hey Hotdog, what stats does mining monitor have that EMC doesn't? I'm always looking add stuff. EMC has done everything MiningMonitor does since the beginning (before MiningMonitor even existed), but I'm always open to new ideas.

I guess I should re-word it: My issue was primarily with the alerting. I could never get the pools to alert me quickly, though, admittedly, I was rather limited in my testing; ARS never worked correctly, and at the time I tried I don't think Slush/BTC had alerting. It's been awhile.

Mining Monitor's biggest limitation, obviously, is their lack of 100% pool coverage. I'll probably be moving some miners over to try EMC today, for giggles.

As for Brunic's question/issue, I recommend using MiningMonitor for multiple miners, which you obviously do have. None of the pools have good, functional, clever stats like MiningMonitor does. Or at least none I've tried/seen.

Yeah. It begs a comparison to other pools, but it's not using the same criteria as they are... so, well, it just gets a little awkward.

That said, though, if anyone is stupid enough to read any "X% fee!" at face value, and not do their own investigating? They deserve what they get.

The XX% is YY dollars is a calculation we all have to do ourselves. When you think of it, yeah, I *AM* paying ~100$ a month to mine here. Period. I'm paying more to mine here a month than I do for my cell phone bill, assuming values stay somewhat around this mark. But I view it as worth it to get the same, exact, rate, constantly

I have to ask, guys: Why are you still mining here? I mean, I love BurningToad and all, he's adorable and looks fantastic in cut off jeans, hubba hubba, but he's clearly, from his own mouth, not involved in the pool at all.

With the plethora of other pools out there, why are you guys still chugging away here? The downtime alone, since he's not responding as quickly as if, ya know, he was still interested in it, would keep me away.

But, each to their own, I suppose

Ars in the heyday was the shit, I will never deny that.

Are the balances still playing "catch up" from this morning's freeze on payments? I'm looking at approximately a 1.2BTC deficit from normal.

Thanks!