That's not too bad. I am glad many of us are sticking arround. I haven't been doing this for long but from what I have seen Slush is doing more than 1 man should be expected to do on his own in such a short amount of time.

I wonder what the pools hash rate is at the moment?

Yeah p2pool is a nice fallback seeing how one of it's goals is to help prevent ddos. Just started using it today. if it's not too much of a network hog to keep the p2pool service running then it may be even a good long term failover pool to keep in the miners config.

biskup that is a very unpleasant scenario but as long as a large portion of miners are divers machines (different os, patched versions, etc.) then the attack surface is rather difficult to gain a large portion at one time before the miner operators notice (no more coin being delivered for work, etc.)

Thanks deadweasel I will look into the API approach.

Yeah looks like the dDOS is back on the mining_proxy is not able to connect to Slush's pool ATM either.

Why thank you both. It's nice to see 2 replys in 2min. I am also intrested in the mining of BTC. From the folks who have been doing it for a while how they go about turning the coins into cash to pay the KWH used to produce the BTC. Any automated way to get the exchange done?

I just would like to say a nice hello to the forumm. I have been following the forum now for about a Month and thought I would chime in.