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Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
Actions speak LOUDER then WORDS and Whiz's actions speak for them self! TRUST EARNED THROUGH Years OF HARD WORK that nobody asked for? It was FREELY GIVING!!That's something you can't put a price on and be taught and bought with because it comes from THE HEART! DOING as you SAY without blinking a EYE!Or having to Think about it !! Just like your actions speak for you? Maybe you should of followed that advise of yours before you stuck your foot in your mouth with veiled threats 
But fortunately it's way to late for that now rofl Your master is going to be asking for that money back now he paid you to broker this scam for him I bet! You blew it:o
That's Exactly what you ARe aren't you a PR! The TRUTH gets revealed!!They Should of hired a Pr for the Pr ;)A volunteer
Don't you mean cough cough SOCK PUPPET!!! I can smell that BULLSHIT thousands of miles away like everybody else with half a brain........... Now WE KNoW and have the Answer of WHY CHINA BANS BITCOIN EVERY OTHER DAY? Because of dingle berries like you...................
But fortunately it's way to late for that now rofl Your master is going to be asking for that money back now he paid you to broker this scam for him I bet! You blew it:oThat's Exactly what you ARe aren't you a PR! The TRUTH gets revealed!!They Should of hired a Pr for the Pr ;)A volunteer
Don't you mean cough cough SOCK PUPPET!!! I can smell that BULLSHIT thousands of miles away like everybody else with half a brain........... Now WE KNoW and have the Answer of WHY CHINA BANS BITCOIN EVERY OTHER DAY? Because of dingle berries like you...................Dude, you're starting to delve into idol worship, chill out. Wiz is good at what he does, but he's also fallible. Remember, his stats site got hacked by a SQL injection error which is basically web security 101. He's also ignored and/or spurned many credible offers of free help, so there's likely a significant level of arrogance as well. And before you start painting him as some kind of Bitcoin philanthropist you might consider that he *is* getting paid, just not in the coin of the realm. Like most geeks, he probably takes a great deal of pride in his work, so his coin is in burnishing his reputation, paid by the adulation and appreciation of others. Going all groupie mode might be overpaying, though.
That said, do I trust Wiz more than this dude? Of course. But chill out, and lets wait for full disclosure of the evidence.
In the interim, I express my trust by continuing to keep my paltry hash power on Eligius, where I believe there's little risk.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
So.... their fault for not setting it up?
No fault anywhere, either they didn't know or they didn't care. Does it matter? But my answer to the OP is still pertinent: the people who are asking about NMC payouts *do* care, so why shouldn't they ask for an update? Eligius is in the NMC business, which means we're all in the NMC business, even if that's not why we participate.
At no point did I ever question Wiz's ability or intention to eventually catch up on the payouts. Which is why I never left or had a hissy fit in the forums during a very tumultuous year to date.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
No, you're not donating it... NMC is still merge mined and everything is counted, it's just the payout that it late and once it comes, it's going to be the biggest yet. Why can't people understand that?
Dude, you completely miss my point. I wasn't talking about those of us with registered NMC wallet addresses, I'm talking about those who haven't. They're still doing the work, and yet, they *are* essentially donating that work because they're not registered to claim it.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
Boy, take a few weeks off from trolling the forums and there's gnashing of teeth over a free service, hate & discontent, mayhem in the aisles, and general bitching...
Gee, the more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
Gee, the more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
I am gone, until NMC payments work again. But... have fun anyways...
why is this thread cluttered with NMC? Its a crap $2... if you think it is going back to $10 just buy a truckload of them now
I think people care because Eligius is merge mining, so if you're not claiming that additional NMC, you're donating it. I donate anyway, but you can't blame people for wanting the maximum return for the electricity & hardware possible. Even more so if you're doing the work, anyway.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
And what if I did have a need for my BTC0.5 that has been stuck there for 12+ hours?
I don't (and I don't leave that much in there anyway) but that's not the point. I LIKE the pool, I LIKE Luke and WK, they seem like good people. But over the last 6 weeks this has happened way to many times. I know 2 people with a combined 1.8 TH who left the pool because of this. Difficulty is up and the pool hashrate is dropping because of things like this.
-Dave
I don't (and I don't leave that much in there anyway) but that's not the point. I LIKE the pool, I LIKE Luke and WK, they seem like good people. But over the last 6 weeks this has happened way to many times. I know 2 people with a combined 1.8 TH who left the pool because of this. Difficulty is up and the pool hashrate is dropping because of things like this.
-Dave
To be frank, I don't get why so many here insist on treating mining like it's an ATM. It's unrealistic and shows a drastic lack of understanding of the mining business. You're engaged in a speculative venture, there are no guarantees.
Hell, even real (physical) miners have to deal with variance and timing issues, albeit in the form of contracts and delivery, fluctuations in refining output based on the quality of ore, etc. Not even gold miners have guaranteed income. Less so, given the Fed and CB manipulation of the commodities markets...
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
Failsafe mode again....
I guess I won't be getting my payout today after all.
Does it really matter? Do you have a purchase being held up for lack of BTC? Given the current market price, which I believe is a little depressed, I'd wait for some recovery before spending any, anyway.
I'm fine with the occasional delays, I don't have a hole burning in my digital pocket...
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
NMC is not the only one, but until recently was the only one that supported merged mining.
I've been encouraging wizkid057 to add HunterCoin and MazaCoin, but he hasn't had time yet.
I've been encouraging wizkid057 to add HunterCoin and MazaCoin, but he hasn't had time yet.
Ah, good to know, didn't realize you had others you looked favorably upon.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
stats are working good for me.
Can mazacoin be merged mined with bitcoins?
Can mazacoin be merged mined with bitcoins?
I believe Luke has gone on record stating that they don't support alternate currencies except those who might be doing something new and/or useful. NMC is the only one he recognizes as such to date.
I don't know anything about mazacoin, but you'd have to get that past Luke, first.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
Cloudflare only helps with http/https last I checked. And I would rather not centralize yet another bitcoin related service behind Cloudflare.
As for the effectiveness of the attacks, the only noticeable effects lately have been slightly delayed response times with the web server. The pool servers have been generally unaffected.
The web server setup definitely is not as scalable as I would like, but that falls back to the mostly unfunded part of the problem.
As for the effectiveness of the attacks, the only noticeable effects lately have been slightly delayed response times with the web server. The pool servers have been generally unaffected.
The web server setup definitely is not as scalable as I would like, but that falls back to the mostly unfunded part of the problem.
I'll throw this out there one more time: I know my 1% isn't much given my tiny rig, but I'd be happy to donate some time to help out the cause. Scalability is a big part of my job.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
A semi-well known fact about me: my real life job includes DDoS mitigation at the ISP level for multiple ISPs.
This particular attack against Eligius has taken almost every form possible... UDP reflection attacks (DNS, NTP, SNMP, etc... 30+ gigabit at times), TCP SYN attacks (over 20 gigabit peaks), botnets directly flooding pool ports (multiple gigabit), botnets attempting application layer (stratum and HTTP) attacks (varies up to several gigabit and > 100k connections), HTTP request floods from botnets and other amplification (wordpress being one), hanging TCP connection attacks, various attack attempts against public facing bitcoinds, flood attacks against upstream routers, social engineering attempts (someone has contacted the abuse@ addresses for some nodes claiming Eligius is DoS attacking them, lol, presumably in an attempt to stir trouble with our hosts), and probably a ton of other things that are just automatically filtered/ignored.
This particular attack against Eligius has taken almost every form possible... UDP reflection attacks (DNS, NTP, SNMP, etc... 30+ gigabit at times), TCP SYN attacks (over 20 gigabit peaks), botnets directly flooding pool ports (multiple gigabit), botnets attempting application layer (stratum and HTTP) attacks (varies up to several gigabit and > 100k connections), HTTP request floods from botnets and other amplification (wordpress being one), hanging TCP connection attacks, various attack attempts against public facing bitcoinds, flood attacks against upstream routers, social engineering attempts (someone has contacted the abuse@ addresses for some nodes claiming Eligius is DoS attacking them, lol, presumably in an attempt to stir trouble with our hosts), and probably a ton of other things that are just automatically filtered/ignored.
It's nice to get some hard info on what's going on. I, BTW, work for a backbone provider, specifically for managed IP services.
I am surprised that Eligius is operating with that level of network connectivity, as a mostly unfunded operation I has thought your resources were a lot more meager. That said, at the point your pipe is getting filled your provider should be willing to either provide some sort of CoS shaping and/or basic filtering for you, to keep pipe congestion down. For what gets past that I would assume you've got some basic stateful firewalling in place, at least.
Some of your other attacks, like the HTTP requests, while intended as a DDoS, are great at pointing out scalability problems, for which there's probably some low hanging fruit. Some squid boxes, ICAP, memcached, etc. I haven't looked at the stratum protocol so I couldn't guess what your problems would be there.
Sounds like you guys are definitely getting a trial by fire.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
When it comes to Bitcoin, DDoS means 30+ Gbit/sec :p
Are you saying you have a cluster of servers sitting on multiple OC-255s? Like I said, if they can actually fill the pipe with SYNs you're pretty much screwed, you need help from your backbone provider.
That said, I haven't seen any significant detail divulged on the attack. No one's said what they're attacking, the IP stack, the application, what. Are they overrunning the pipe or server resources? If the latter there's more than likely a few things you can do to scale just to make it harder for them to effectively DDoS you.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
Mitigating DDoS attacks is pretty basic, depending on whether they're trying to attack the TCP stack (like SYN floods) or the protocol (like that NTP reflection attack that was going on a couple of months ago). More servers won't help unless you have a genuine scaling problem.
Care to elaborate on the pretty basic way a DDoS can be mitigated? I'm sure plenty of people will be interested...
Mitigating DDoS attacks is never "basic". Mitigating the DDoS attacks that have been ongoing for quite some time against Eligius is time consuming, requires cooperation of many different entities, and is a genuine pain in the ass. But, I'd much rather mitigate than give the attackers any satisfaction.
It depends on the attack, but most of the garden variety DDoS is basic, but you seem adverse to accepting anyone's help or expertise, Wiz.
SYN floods are very basic unless the packet rate actually exceeds your available bandwidth. There's not much you can do without the help of your backbone provider if they can actually fill your pipe. But if it's just a socket threshold limit on the server itself there's a couple of ways to protect yourself, even without a decent accelerator or IDP. Basic steps like enabling SYN cookies, increasing your syn backlog queue, lowering SYN and SYN/ACK retries, etc.
Beyond that you could enable packet marking so you can log stale SYNs and feed them to a program (like autofwd) in order to semi-permanently firewall hosts generating those packets. If those packets are forged, and not generated directly by bots, there may be some collateral damage.
All of this is even easier if you're comfortable with OpenBSD.
Application protocol level DDoS, depending on the protocol, can be a bit hairier.
Re: [6600Th] Eligius: 0% Fee BTC, 105% PPS NMC, No registration, CPPSRB (New Thread)
Just want to note that Eligius has been under constant DDoS attacks for well over a week now. Mitigation sometimes requires temporarily killing one or more public facing IPs and letting miners reconnect to others. As long as you're using the proper hostname, stratum.mining.eligius.st, then your miners should do all of this automatically.
What a ball-ache wk - how can you mitigate against this kind of anal attack... More servers is all I can think of... Keep up the good effort!
Mitigating DDoS attacks is pretty basic, depending on whether they're trying to attack the TCP stack (like SYN floods) or the protocol (like that NTP reflection attack that was going on a couple of months ago). More servers won't help unless you have a genuine scaling problem.
Gold.
Gold has its value since the every beginning.You can trade gold everywhere. Bitcoin is going down; it is now up to few holders, who have 100k+ btc in their wallet; they just need a slow escape plan; because u cant sell suck amount at once. You need to exit slowly in order to keep the price high.
Bitcoin is jut the biggest scam in the history of humanity.Billions of cash was made by selling some simple asics, miners and trading .
Only fool is thinking some random number are suddenly worth of 1000 Dollars.
Lol, "00000000000ererw0ewedsdfsdcshit" is worth money? What a joke.
Game over BTC:)
Gold has its value since the every beginning.You can trade gold everywhere. Bitcoin is going down; it is now up to few holders, who have 100k+ btc in their wallet; they just need a slow escape plan; because u cant sell suck amount at once. You need to exit slowly in order to keep the price high.
Bitcoin is jut the biggest scam in the history of humanity.Billions of cash was made by selling some simple asics, miners and trading .
Only fool is thinking some random number are suddenly worth of 1000 Dollars.
Lol, "00000000000ererw0ewedsdfsdcshit" is worth money? What a joke.
Game over BTC:)
Like you, I believe in gold as the ultimate store of value. Unlike you, I actually understand what bitcoin is and what makes it valuable. Bitcoin, ultimately, is fiat, and no fiat has an inherent value. That said, bitcoin is potentially more valuable to any other existing fiat due to how it's managed. Quite frankly, barring a united world-wide government ban making it illegal, it will probably retain value better than the US dollar.
Read up on the technology and what problems it's trying to solve before trolling some ignorant random number BS.
That's only because physicalness has implied scarcity. If tomorrow FTL space travel were invented and super cheap and we discovered a million earths rich in resources and suddenly physicality was as cheap and plentiful as digital things, then the "real value" of being physical would diminish almost completely.
You taking odds on that happening? ;-) Hell, America has to hitchhike in Russia just to get a lift into orbit right now. I'll wager that that scarcity won't be reduced in the next couple of decades.
I'm all about silver personally. But definatley wouldn't mind holding a 1oz gold coin either. At this stage I'd take gold over Bitcoin mainly because of the price currently 
Silver has a lot of potential right now. The silver:gold ratio is way out of whack from the it's traditional 35:1 (in the modern era), which means a lot more upside potential than gold. As much as gold is artificially depressed, silver is magnitudes more so.
When it comes to increasingly long timeframes, anything digital is simply no competition to physical value, no matter what anyone wants to tell you otherwise (i.e. "as good as gold").
That's the advantage of being an older generation, over time you learned what value really means.
That's the advantage of being an older generation, over time you learned what value really means.
+1000 Great post.
Simple take the gold then buy some Bitcoin and after that buy some more gold and hedge your bets so to speak.
Or keep to a diversified portfolio. Hold both, but transfer a percentage of one asset to the other as one becomes over or under valued.
I sold some unused gold jewelry yesterday and bought bitcoin at my local Robocoin ATM.
I expect the next bitcoin price bubble to occur in the next few months - at which point the issue of 1 BTC vs 1 oz Gold will be history.
I expect the next bitcoin price bubble to occur in the next few months - at which point the issue of 1 BTC vs 1 oz Gold will be history.
Uh, isn't the whole point of bubbles that they're artificially inflated and then harshly corrected? You can have the bubble, I'd stick with gold, which is much less likely to be inflated. Particularly since the powers that be work so hard to make sure the price is permanently depressed, just to keep the illusion of value in the fiat.