I really have just one question.

Will my 6 TH in mining hardware sill work if the community switches?

My mining hardware investment has paid for itself, but it seems like the Bitcoin I'd prefer to use to replace my rigs, if I had to, would be worthless.

Hooray!

The dashboard doesn't look right to me, but there is a growing balance in my account. Thus, the pool and reward systems are working.

I just signed up today for the Darkcoin pool. My worker stats on the site and my ccminer window agree on the hash rate, but for some reason the dashboard is showing 0 valid and 0 invalid shares for a couple blocks now. User thegreatwhatsit.

I just wanted to say how awesome it is to have 8.5 Ph/s and no fail safe! How high do you think it can go? I have new hardware coming in, should increase my processing around 4x.

Damn, The stats server must be hosed.

Stopped doing it yesterday afternoon Eastern. Everything is back to normal for 20ish hours now. i guess it's more effects form the DDOS attack, but up until yesterday I was immune.

I've not had any issues previously, but for the last 20 hours or so I'm having a hard time connecting to the pool from my CGminers running my antminer U1's. It's causing me to loose about 10 Gh/s. My proxy miners are fine, my S1's are fine, My RPi setup is fine running BFGminer.

I feel so uneasy when I can't check my stats every 5 seconds!

Have we really been looking for a block for over 12 hours now, or is that something wrong with the stats server too?

Where did you order the Dragon from? With every new hardware offering there are like 10k sites boasting they have it ready to ship and then we have to spend months vetting and finding the scams...

When CGMiner says

Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

Pool 0 in my case is Eligius, does that mean the bitcoin network found a block or Eliguis found a block?

Hey, you guys remember the the troll with the really bad English who was accusing WizKid of stealing the coins from the payout queue when stats were down for a week? I bet he's the ransomer... not the hacker, he's not smart enough for that, but just trying to cash in on the situation.

That was some jump in difficulty! It looks like the site is reporting my normal hash rates again. Does that mean the attack is over? You think this is going to happen just before every network difficulty adjustment?

Are they still at it right now?

I'm watching my hash rate take a dive, but checked an all my HW is doing what it's supposed to at the same rate it's been going at for a month now.

For me a dive is from 292ish Gh/s to 250ish GH/s.

I thought maybe one or two of my devices was hacked and pointing to the wrong pool, not so.

Look at the white numbers. They should all be 300 or more. If several are 000 your miner is not getting enough work from the proxy. Which means the computer running it is too weak or your network is too slow to keep up with work requests.

Check the network cable and the switch port it's plugged into.

Hey thanks for the guide. working awesomely.

I snagged one of these off eBay. It's used so I actually started with a visual inspection. I noticed more dust on the fan than I was comfortable with so I took the fuse out and unscrewed the cover, then the shiny fan screen screws and cleaned it off. Took a cotton swab around on the inside when I noticed some of the blades were not in their tracks molded in the case and even touching the adjacent blade.

I took the cover off the other side and pushed the whole unit out from the connection side to re seat all the components in their tracks. This was a little tricky, if I got the bottom going to far ahead the blades got hung up or the opposite would happen when the blades got ahead. But eventually it slid in place nice and smooth.
 
However, it seemed like when I set it back upright the weight of the blades in the center caused the controller board to bow slightly to the point where those blades would pop back out of the tracks again. I could see where once the device was up and running and generating heat that the controller board would lose some rigidity and the blades popping out easily. I spent maybe 5 minutes thinking of what I would stuff under the controller board to support it when I did the V8 forehead slap and said to myself, “Just turn the damn thing upside down.” Viola, now the 6 study heavy heat sink laden blades support the light controller board and gravity keeps them in their tracks.

I was going to ask earlier today what the record length was for a round... and then the round finished and I didn't care any more LOL.