My .02btc

Basically I sold a small amount of BTC for PPUSD on BM. I got the payment in my PP account and confirmed the trade on BM. About 8 hours later Paypal removed the funds and marked them as "held" because the sender filed a "regarding unauthorized access to his PayPal account" claim. The next day PP resolved the issue without my input on the matter. I feel this was the result of 1) A hacked PP account was used to send the funds 2) PP basically told me to go to hell because it was a BTC transaction.

Throughout all of this dwdollar was very reachable and replied to all my queries. I do not hold him or his service responsible for my loss of BTC. My loss is easily made up in a few days of mining.

I have sent email to the two addresses involved with this trade but have not gotten a response and probably will never get one.

It really is ashame when good people try to build a reputation by providing a very usable service and some greedy bastards have to come along and shit all over it.

Well life goes on. Small lesson learned.

Cheers.

I was scammed out of 6.10 BTC in trade ID 2655

Buyer ID 6038 BTCbuyer

Payment was sent to my Paypal account then removed (held by Paypal) 8 hours later. Currently I am out the $ and the BTC.

Emails have been sent to all involved parties. I am waiting to see what happens next.

Cheers.


Updated here
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12678.msg177172#msg177172

Thank you for enabling SSL.

Thank you for enabling SSL.

Cheers

Please consider enabling TLS for the login/registration page. This would be a nice increase in security. Enabling HTTPS will help to prevent (but not completely stop) others from "sniffing" traffic. At least the login credentials would not be in clear text. As a network security admin I can tell you it is trivial to capture packets on a local network. Some people may not have the ability to be on a private network when logging into their account. If you sign in using a school network, the network at your place of work, or from the local coffee shop you could be exposing information that can be used to gain access to your account. I can only think of good reasons to enable TLS and only bad ones for not.

Cheers.

Pool rate: 600 Gh/s

And yet another record is set. Deepbit is getting very deep 

Grats [Tycho]. You are a grand pool master. Thank you.


Cheers.

BAM!
Pool rate: 502 Gh/s

Blocks   122609
Total BTC   6.130 mil.
 
Difficulty   109670
Estimated   153722 in 367 blks
 
Network total   1.183 Thash/s
Blocks/hour   8.37 / 413 s

100 Gh/s increase in less then 24 hours
GRATS  

Cheers

I don't know how this would work or even if it would solve anything but maybe the suggestion will spark a thought somehow.

Maybe the pool could be split in some way. Maybe make a second pool and migrate miners over to the new pool to even them out. [Tycho] would be running two pools but somehow it would be transparent to the miners

Example, and please don't associate my numbers with accuracy or fairness, create a second pool server and for every 2 > 1GH/s miners allow 4 < 900 MH/s  miners to work in the same pool. Another way to look at it is to group 1-5 big time hashers with 8-10 smaller hashers and separate these groups on different servers.

This is only meant to help the thinking process.

Cheers.

Pool rate: 405 Gh/s GRATS

Wish I had that kind of preprocessing power.

Thanks again for all your hard work and dedication [Tycho].

Cheers

Thanks for the reply. I am glad to see you are thinking about it. Yes I am very tech savvy and I will look in to a VPN. Thanks for the suggestion.

My current project related to BTC is working out how to integrate the P2P network on to IPv6. Not much of a challenge tech wise more so on the social side I think. 

Do you plan on making the login page to btcmine.com TLS (https) anytime soon? I don't know how others feel but it would make me feel better if at least the login page was encrypted. Also how are you storing user passwords. I am not asking for details but with the value of BTC, security should be a top priority with all pool sysops.

Thanks for your service.

Cheers.

I see some are having DNS problems and others recommending Googles DNS. I would like to recommend, to those on a Windows system, to give DNS benchmark a try by Steve Gibson http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm. Using this tool you can find the best DNS server for your connection.

Quote from page
  "The point made above about the suitability — to you — of candidate nameservers is a crucial one, since everything is about where you are located relative to the nameservers being tested. You might see someone talking about how fast some specific DNS nameservers are for them, but unless you share their location there's absolutely no guarantee that the same nameservers would perform as well for you. ONLY by benchmarking DNS resolvers from your own location, as this DNS Benchmark does, can you compare nameserver performance where it matters . . . right where you're computer is."

Mr. Gibson's knowledge of networks has been a great help to me for many years. I hope he can help you, if you are in the need, as well.

By the way he is a Bitcoin solo miner and has done a very nice netcast about Bitcoin http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-287.htm

Cheers

Very happy with BTC to Paypal transaction I did on http://coincard.ndrix.com/ All worked as stated on their site. Will do business with them again. Thank you Hendricks Solutions, LLC for your service.

I traded less then 100BTC for a Paypal payment.

Hello all,
I am not much on posting in forums but thought it was time to say thank you to Tycho for the work and dedication put into Deepbit.net. I also would like to say thanks to all the members that have contributed to this and other threads on this forum. Many of you have been a great help in understanding how this all works.

I started mining solo in mid 2010 with CPUs only. Success was very rare but my interest was captured. I recently purchased a used 5870 from eBay which is turning out to be a good investment. My full time mining rig is an old MSI motherboard with a Q6600 CPU, overclocked 5870, 850 watt power supply, 2 gig ram. Other than the video card and power supply the system is over 4 years old (my old gaming rig reborn). It is sitting in the server room I admin over and working very smoothly.

I have a few bills to pay but plan on investing in another GPU very soon.

If your looking for a pool to join I would say Deepbit.net is the place to be.

Have a great day.