[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“24276” timestamp=“1375481844”]
[quote author=Aldanga link=topic=3070.msg24242#msg24242 date=1375475583]
[quote author=wesphily link=topic=3070.msg24238#msg24238 date=1375474924]
I purposely mentioned no names.

You are saying you don’t trust anybody.

I’m am saying I don’t trust people who don’t trust Bushstar.

How are we different. Are we both taking shots at people?
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Your implication was obvious to any one with a shred of sense. Such behavior is unbecoming of anyone who claims to be a leader.

Are you interested in actually having a discussion or do you just intend to keep circling with veiled accusations against community members? I, for one, would like to continue the discussion on ACP.
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Ladies, ladies! You’re both pretty!

Seriously, there’s no need for all this. A small-timer got burnt on a bad trade, and I’m the devil in disguise because I thought the price would follow the perception, and not the market manipulation. Can we all please move on with our collective lives now that that’s out in the open?
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I was told you were the second coming of the Fontas? It’s not true? :'(

Cheers Kevlar, the information really shows how successful that change was. Any idea who came up with that 40% difficulty change idea as a fix? They need a gold star.

It works lovely against our 2 main problems, hash switching and attacks.

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[quote] EDIT: ATTACK STARTED around 57465 until now 57514 he keep the chain means time to July 28 at 2:14. (the chain means time is the lowest time that can be used to put a block in the chain) it’ s along run but if he keeps that until retarget and put it in retarget block he can put us in pretty high 114+41% diff. And then low hash rate and all related issues will follow
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Just doing some analysis, I already uploaded to “suspect addresses”, it might be relevant, that manipulating the difficulty is an aim. A group of solo miners could deliberately effect the difficulty, by mining and stopping, then re-entering with a “proportionate” hash rate when the difficulty goes down, they get a greater proportion of blocks than if they had mined consistently.

Looking at the lack of correlation between difficulty and block rate would indicate to me, there is another factor controling the block rate and difficulty.

In some ways I wish it was me just being paranoid!

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Confirmation of Attack on Terracoin 24th July 2013

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=261986.0

Here’s more confirmation from Terracoin, of my analysis that the current network attacks are more coin wide than people think, and that the deterioration in coin overproduction is probably not just due to problematic difficulty adjustment.

The attacks on Terracoin also shows that measuring the block production on a daily basis is a good indicator of network stability and indicator of attack or DDos vectors of network attacks.

Block rate production per day, could be used to predict or identify novel attacks are being mounted. It should be stable if averaged over 7 days if the controlling algorithms are working. Unless the block production is stable over 2 weeks, I think the controlling block production algorithm has failed, and needs looking at.

The attacks on Terracoin also indicate that a Bitcoin miner or outside agency interfering, is the most likely attack vector. Since Litecoin mining variability would be more noticeable in order to mount multiple attacks. Terracoin is a SHA-256, so would be easier for a Bitcoin miner to reconfigure.

Just theorising what might be discovered with more serious analysis by the community.

Feathercoin Blocks Per Day From BigVern Database, I’ve added 2 * Difficulty (for comparison purpuses). 23rd May to 23 July 2013.

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that is why we had a hard fork at 33000 with big bounties to reach it. this was to correct diff adjustment that was going to wide. So the diff 188 was killing FTC with a rate of a block every 2H as only hard core supporter mined FTC at that time. so the data is ok and the chain also.

so (block reward * price)/diff give a ratio that can be compare to other scrypt coins for profitability if price goes up diff can go up if diff goes up without price going up your screwed with a high diff and low mining power. That what happen with the 2016 retarget and big change on diff that goes up and price fall. profitability was very bad so miner goes away and high diff-low hashrate makes very very long time between blocks.

Great article

[quote name=“jeremiel” post=“22238” timestamp=“1374247046”]
I’m starting this thread to collect the possible reasons for such coordinated attacks on ftc.
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[list type=decimal]
[*]“Feathercoin to the moon!”
[*]“Any coin other than Bitcoin is a scam coin.”
[*]Butthurt
[*]Profit
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over at x360a when a group tries raiding, the admins can flip a switch for mod post approval for new accounts under X amount of posts. They have thousands of active members, seems to work in an emergency.

Frankly it remains a mess. Cryptsy is still mucking about with their API. Appearantly you need to have your ip be whitelisted, and even after that, it’s still not working… :(

[quote name=“seemee” post=“18603” timestamp=“1372491449”]
[quote author=wesphily link=topic=2340.msg18386#msg18386 date=1372432538]
[quote author=seemee link=topic=2340.msg18275#msg18275 date=1372399147]
Sorry, but what would be the best location to mention malfunctioning of FTC services offered by third parties?
By the way, the problem is still there.
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Technical Support.
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Thanks wesphily,
I will take that into account the next time.
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Please let me know when this is resolved. Anything that hits our members hits me as welll.

There is nothing to worry about. Their reputation costs more than any one time profit they might have by double spending.

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[quote author=zerodrama link=topic=1604.msg14046#msg14046 date=1371116500]
They’re going after CNC. That’s their goal right now. They’ll be back.
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His still with us.
See http://explorer.feathercoin.com/a/6xtJbibr23
Simply looks like its releasing all its blocks on time, so not orphaning others, but still solving a lot of blocks.
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They orphaned block #36151 by outrunning D2 pool for 22 seconds. Shit happens.

[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“13503” timestamp=“1371020127”]
I have informed Jude (who runs [b][u]p2poop.org[/u][/b])
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PMSL - sounds like a fetish site… ;D

Unhelpful and childish reply i know but you’ve made my evening. ;D

On topic, I only started my p2pool server at 8pm on the 10th but i saw no anomalies on my stats. Correct hashrates throughout. :-\

at least the bot’s staying in off topic.

With the difficulty keep increasing, this means that I’ll have to go mine back BTC soon. Even with difficulty 133, I feels like I’m farming at the same rate as BTC at the moment.

[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“12576” timestamp=“1370899844”]
[quote author=ASDASDASD link=topic=1556.msg12495#msg12495 date=1370881509]
[b]FTC is in trouble still[/b]
[list]
[*]Difficulty was supposed to go up to 94 but rather went down to 47
[*]give-me-ftc had over 50 blocks found and orphaned. Those blocks now are found by ‘unknown’ and are 100% confirmed after previously being orphaned.
[*]Coinwarz was stating current difficulty at 94
[*]Forum has been DDOSed 4x or more times
[*]Coinotron DDOSed
[*]give-me-ftc DDOSed
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Just a few things in the last hour…
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It was not supposed to be 94. That was based on 60 blocks. 47 is based on 504 blocks and it was correct because that was the 2.5 minute block target.
Coinwarz based it on the 60 block prediction.
DDoS is desperation.

Also I keep telling these wankers not to try trolling a troll. Clearly, they’re not paying attention. Time to advance the schedule.
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From what I saw the blocks were coming in fast at less than two minutes. Even if the diff did go down it should not have gone down so much. The blocks after the diff change were over written by the attackers with blocks dated a day before. It effectively doubled the amount of time it was supposed to take so the diff went down to the maximum amount. If we can dig up the details on the orphaned difficulty change block we can figure out exactly what the difficulty was supposed to be.