The reason the black one doesnt look like real plaint:

BUTTERFLY LABS:
http://butterflylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/rig-enclosure-SC1.png

Original:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JX-bX%2B17L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

The white box is a 'stock image' used at a number of sites.  There are multiple angles here:

This is the butterfly image:
http://butterflylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/rig-enclosure.png

Here is the box over at OEM Export
http://www.oemexport.com/super-lcm-raid-enclsoure-with-raid-function-swappable-function-four-bays-p-946.html?zenid=34vcahkstrsfitdhi9llsdjca4

http://www.oemexport.com/images/l/201011/a/12892346087.jpg
http://www.oemexport.com/images/l/201011/a/12892346096.jpg
http://www.oemexport.com/images/l/201011/a/12892346123.jpg

I'm sure we could dig up the black one too...

Actually, in the beginning there was no substitute for very very very low latency... horsepower was NOT the issue for the first few hours.

10 blocks so far

.......I get a block (or two) each time i0guild is ddos'ed

5 blocks for me....

Here goes nothing...

[EDIT]

With one hour to go and stales still very high -- is there any chance we will see an improvement?

Would solo mining mining provide better returns for the first few hours as the network difficulty increases to something reasonable?

I became interested in bitcoin mining, mining pools and the bitcoin network last week so please excuse the fresh smell.

After reading the initial Satoshi paper and seeing how the implementation has evolved and differed from the original (and brilliant) design I started to consider the 'dangers' of large bitcoin mining pools.  It seems that if a determined attacker was able to compromise just two machines they could compromise the entire bitcoin network[2].. scary stuff for anyone with an investment in bitcoin no?  Defeats the purpose of a non centralized trust model too doesn't it? Anyway...

I decided to fire up wireshark on a couple of my mining rigs and set up filters to grab interesting bitcoin related traffic.  Using pylibpcap and massaging the data shows interesting statistical information (long poll data), server response time changes(as workers all find out that they need need data), and changes in the data value in the RPC request seem to correlate nicely and filtering out the noise gets easier with a larger number of miners.

Question:
Are there any open source pool hoppers out there that are actually using longpoll to assist in block completion estimation or are they all just scraping APIs and web pages for block completion times?

[1] http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
[2] *...by gaining the majority of the bitcoin C/GPU vote The pool administrators are active and easily contacted.  An attacker with an adobe/java/office 0day could potentially social engineer their way into compromising pool operator personal machines and hop the fence from there.  Operators could be coerced. Operators could be malicious.

And now the webserver is down again...                   

works now (I just paid out)

EDIT:

Stats are wrong though:

Worker Name    Worker Speed    Shares (Stales)                                  Last Share    
XXXX                    176.57 MH/s   -10914 (-16, 0.15%)   0 (0, 0.00%)   0:01:34    
XXXX                    162.25 MH/s   -11560 (-18, 0.16%)   0 (0, 0.00%)   0:00:56    
XXXX                    33.41 MH/s   -1806 (0, 0.00%)   0 (0, 0.00%)   0:02:09    
XXXX                    305.42 MH/s   -144 (0, 0.00%)   0 (0, 0.00%)           0:01:11    
 Totals            677.65 MH/s   -24424 (-34, 0.14%)   0 (0, 0.00%)      

Also, though it may seem trivial it would be very nice to be able to set time zone on block completion for my browsing pleasure (Block Completion Time)

It appears that E is scamming us... he is clearly adding solving blocks on his own and giving them to us...

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woohoo!

I took an interest in bitcoin last week and started reading as much as I could.  I love the idea from a philosophical and technology perspective and I am eager to see the community thrive (especially my small investment in a mining rig heh).

My question is meant to highlight a possible weak point in the integrity of the bitcoin network OR clear a misconception from my mind about the propagtion of trusted blocks and the trust modle of the P2P network.

QUESTION:
Since 'mining' pools such as BTCGuild and deebbit were not considered in the design of the trust model and distribution of work, would it not be possible to hijack the blockchain by compromising the top n pools?  If an attacker was able to gain 51+ % of the bitcoin network for a 10min period (the defined time for propagation of blocks through the network) they would be able to supress a legitimate transaction and have it invalidated/stomped out.

[1] According to this graph: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-ever.png the total computational capacity of the bitcoin  network is just over 10G Hash. (*Note this number needs to be verified -- it seems low and the points on the graph grow dont grow linearly -- could be much higher than 10GHash but no higher than 50.  Clarification on this point would be nice is anyone has a better number)

[2]
Deepbit pool rate: 5320 Gh/s
BTC Guild pool rate: 2340.95 GH/s

If an attacker was able to compromise the TWO bitcoin work distribution servers at BTCGuild and then one at deepbit (I realize thee are probably load balanced but the compromise could be of DNS servers (social engineering?), or even a local attack at a data center (if you're a particular nation state that is against bitcoin for example).

The question summed up: Is 7600GH/s enough to disrupt the bitcoin network and if so is there a method of preventing this if pools continue to be such a significant portion of the vote?

The stats have been delayed by an hour... output has changed.

I suspect this is probably false... if you installed some AV you'd probably find some malware.

It's NOT all about practicing safe surfing...  with the huge number of Adobe, Firefox, IE, and Java 0-1day vulnerabilities as well as XSS on public forms, and nothing to monitor the integrity of your OS.

Well written malware isn't something you notice.

Dyn

I can confirm its fixed now.  Payout wan'tworking for me.. is now.

Thanks for the quick reply.

uswest.btcguild.com:8332 27/07/2011 14:31:29, long poll: new block 0000062ecebd55d7
uswest.btcguild.com:8332 27/07/2011 14:31:35, long poll: IO error

I started seeing IO errors for the first time today... me or you?

I just noticed that newegg is having a 'special' on the XFX 6870 for $184.99 with the following promo code:  CEMCKCHC23

It was emailed to me directly so it may not work for you or it may only work once.

The mining guide says 190 so this isnt a huge dead but I wanted to post the promo code just in case.
6870    $190    Easy    278.31 (hashrate)

Nice

I use poclbm.exe with the following command line:

The output looks like this:
xxx.xxx.com:1234 [353.720 MH/s (~362 MH/s)] [Rej: 0/3614 (0%)]

I'm referring to the numbers in bold.

Totally needs an enhancement, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysnM407rjE will be added for every 1.0 bitcoins earned.