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Re: btc-arbs.com - Update: dead HYIP, Refund progress 17/07/2014
Original email sent: 23rd June
PM sent: Today (9th Aug)
Total deposits: 72.715 BTC
Haven't heard anything yet.
PM sent: Today (9th Aug)
Total deposits: 72.715 BTC
Haven't heard anything yet.
You sent your e-mail about three weeks after he started accepting requests for refunds and considering his claim that the e-mail account was shut down, it's liable to take some time. I sent my PM the day he showed up on the forum and was the largest account holder to do so, at the time. At first, payments were being made pretty quickly (1 BTC every 2-3 days) but as more and more people started requesting refunds, it's slowed to a trickle. Especially since the markets are so stagnant. I went a month waiting for the last payment, which ended up being .25 Bitcoin. That was July 29th, almost two weeks ago. So it's gonna be real slow...but as long as I DO get paid back, I will live with it.
I sent my email May 29 and haven't gotten anything, I was the 27BTC. I resent a PM today in case he lost mine.
Re: btc-arbs.com - Daily ROI (0.01-10%) Update: Unauthorized withdrawal issues
In my experience withdrawing anything 5BTC and under from btc-arbs is very quick. Adam has said in tickets that any amount over that needs to be approved by their technical team and that's why it takes longer.
Re: btc-arbs.com - Daily ROI (0.01-10%) Update: Unauthorized withdrawal+site is dead
Bitcoin-trader.biz is the other arbitrage site and I'd say they are doing vastly better with PR than btc-arbs. Arbitrage isn't a scam, it is real, it's just the players doing it that could be or could not be legitimate. In the future I can see more arbitrage services popping up and the exchange prices will eventually get closer together more quickly.
That's why arbitrage requires very fast computers and Internet connections on Wall Street... there are a lot of people fighting for the arbitrage rate and the fastest computers get the transaction. In Bitcoin this isn't so, you see the exchange rate way different on Bitstamp/BTC-E all the time.
That's why arbitrage requires very fast computers and Internet connections on Wall Street... there are a lot of people fighting for the arbitrage rate and the fastest computers get the transaction. In Bitcoin this isn't so, you see the exchange rate way different on Bitstamp/BTC-E all the time.
Re: btc-arbs.com - Daily ROI (0.01-10%) Update: Unauthorized withdrawal+site is dead
You'd think with 10 employees that they'd have some better contact method
I am not sure if you are sarcastic. But you realize they don't actually have 10 employees, right? xDI'd say like 5 "employees", tops.
Web "Developer"
Server guy who hasn't woken up yet after the 500 error cropped up
Adam as support
Guy who made the arbitrage script
Swiss banker contact
Re: btc-arbs.com - Daily ROI (0.01-10%) Update: Unauthorized withdrawal+site is dead
I haven't found an official Twitter account, email address, or Facebook page for them of any sort. Their marketing seems to be limited to forums and press stories via other websites. You'd think with 10 employees that they'd have some better contact method, but making money from arbitrage is probably more concerning to them.
Support tickets are nice, but it only applies when the site is up!
Support tickets are nice, but it only applies when the site is up!
Re: btc-arbs.com - Daily ROI (0.01-10%) Update: Unauthorized withdrawal+site is dead
I received a message from Adam yesterday before it went down about a withdrawal and it seemed like everything was fine. Obviously their server is having problems.
A 500 error happens when something like SSL or Apache gets misconfigured. It wouldn't be surprising if the DNS problems triggered an error and a service just needs to be rebooted. These guys seem to respond from noon to 6PM EST mostly, so they may have just not known about the problem or are trying to get it fixed. From my tickets with Adam he is not the technical person and he was working with others to get the server fixed for Heartbleed. I'm guessing they were updating OpenSSL on the btc-arbs.com server and/or the DNS server and something went wrong.
This is all optimistic, but the fact that people have been able to withdraw funds when the site was up during the problems is promising. Also, I was able to visit the IP yesterday and they had already posted Wednesday's results.
In short, calm down. Arbitrage won't have all of your funds stored on a server so even if it was attacked I doubt anything is gone. That's why large withdrawals take 36 hours, they have to pull it out of arbitrage and manually send it.
A 500 error happens when something like SSL or Apache gets misconfigured. It wouldn't be surprising if the DNS problems triggered an error and a service just needs to be rebooted. These guys seem to respond from noon to 6PM EST mostly, so they may have just not known about the problem or are trying to get it fixed. From my tickets with Adam he is not the technical person and he was working with others to get the server fixed for Heartbleed. I'm guessing they were updating OpenSSL on the btc-arbs.com server and/or the DNS server and something went wrong.
This is all optimistic, but the fact that people have been able to withdraw funds when the site was up during the problems is promising. Also, I was able to visit the IP yesterday and they had already posted Wednesday's results.
In short, calm down. Arbitrage won't have all of your funds stored on a server so even if it was attacked I doubt anything is gone. That's why large withdrawals take 36 hours, they have to pull it out of arbitrage and manually send it.
Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
I think the insights on the multipool's effects on the market are a bit flawed. As far as the miners go, they're getting a constant stream of BC that they will in turn sell back into the market. Sure, the pool is buying to supply the miners, but the net could easily be no market movement at all assuming the miners dump their coins back (they almost always do).
But it is an interesting experiment.
But it is an interesting experiment.
Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
0.000015 for a moment!
It will be somewhat amusing when the weak hands run out of coins to dump.
Re: [ANN][RIC] Riecoin, new prime numbers POW coin, launches Feb 11, 2014
This coin seems to have some good advantages compared to Primecoin. I was also able to get the mining up with xptminer and ypool much easier than other CPU coins (looking at you Maxcoin launch).
Just seems like it needs some marketing help.
Just seems like it needs some marketing help.
Re: [XPM] Primecoin Built-in Miner Sieve Performance Issue
I also notice a decline in PPS using Chemisist's code compare to the official (0.11). Getting an average of about 1800 PPS vs 2200 with official. I'm only running 12 threads as well, so it's not just affecting users with high thread counts.
Well, you're running with more threads than I was able to test (highest I got to was 8 on my core i7-950), so I'm not entirely sure why this is, though it could be that all threads are trying to access a single variable which is determining how long to let the sieve be woven for. I suppose that all these threads could end up blocking each other and cause a significant portion of idle time. It would be far more effective to have a sieve weaving time variable (see line 11 in my version of the prime.cpp: static volatile int sieveBuildTime = 0;) for each individual boost thread, but I'm not sure how to do this as I am entirely unfamiliar with the Boost library (I'm not a c++ programmer
)Tried yours with 30 threads on one box, I'm only pulling about 1800pps. Latest official repo nets around 4000.