Information on attacks
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Roll back.
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People’s transactions have already gone through those blocks. By rolling back this many blocks we would only do further harm.
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Rollback is chargeback.
There’s ways to fix this.
But we need to get in a chatroom where we can talk.
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Man these attacks suck. So are you saying the solution is to do nothing? Is that the option that does the least damage?
Also thanks for the explanation on the 51% attack. It makes alot more sense to me now.
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Well if it was a botnet, would it be plausible to just disable cpu support? Sorry if I’m talking out my ass, I just want to help…
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I agree with unkunku it would see to be the best action. Though if it is being rolled back it should be done soon before more legitimate mined coins are wasted.
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Rollback is a bandaid.
The solution is a protocol change.
Also, how do we know there’s not some people adding mining power against this guy? Their effort to help will account for nothing.
I have an idea, but we need a chatroom.
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The attacks have orphaned blocks. This is not the end of the world as you get orphans happening without any attacks. Some of the very fast coins managed to generate huge orphan chains.
What is happening to us right now can also happen to Bitcoin and Litecoin though no one has that kind of hash power you hope.
Let me be clear, we cannot rollback 100 blocks. Doing so would not teach the attackers a lesson. They only want to do damage and us rolling back that much would do more damage than they ever could.
Rolling back would undo every transaction over the last 24 hours. In fact I doubt we could even convince people that it is a good idea. Give BTC-e the option of undoing 4000BTC worth of trades and the answer will be a no.
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They don’t have to undo them, just kill the FTC of anyone who was unfortunate enough to buy them. Keeping the blocks is sort of like a bailout - you don’t want to harm those “innocent” and unfortunate investors who were taken advantage of.
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All my miners have dropped off FCPool now, although their website is up. Anyone else having problems with them? Wonder if they’re being DDoSed, as they’ve always been rock stable before for me…
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I shut my miner down cause I haven’t gotten any coins in 24 hrs.
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Is the attack over now?
give-me-ftc showed strange hashrates.
Although they have almost 50% of the network at the moment, their last found block is 10 blocks away.
Who’s finding all those blocks? Another fork/attack?
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[quote name=“Vigil” post=“11865” timestamp=“1370813984”]
I shut my miner down cause I haven’t gotten any coins in 24 hrs.
[/quote]Thats the wrong thng to do, the only way to fight an attack is to mine.
Turning off your rig is helping the attackers.
If your having trouble with pools, solo mine, see here to setup solo mining as a backup
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1453.0 -
i can’t get to any pools or p2pool nodes, except hynodeva and they have suspended payments
going to see if i can figure out this solo thing, otherwise, might be dead in the water -
[quote name=“Radacoin” post=“11867” timestamp=“1370814193”]
Is the attack over now?give-me-ftc showed strange hashrates.
Although they have almost 50% of the network at the moment, their last found block is 10 blocks away.
Who’s finding all those blocks? Another fork/attack?
[/quote]For the moment yes the attack is over, as whos finding the blocks on give-me-ftc miners like you and me.
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[quote name=“FoBoT” post=“11871” timestamp=“1370814402”]
i can’t get to any pools or p2pool nodes, except hynodeva and they have suspended payments
going to see if i can figure out this solo thing, otherwise, might be dead in the water
[/quote][b][size=18pt]Solo is EASY[/size][/b] see here
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1453.msg11813 -
[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“11862” timestamp=“1370811043”]
Let me be clear, we cannot rollback 100 blocks. Doing so would not teach the attackers a lesson. They only want to do damage and us rolling back that much would do more damage than they ever
[/quote]So Bush，what’s the solution to this ？
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[quote name=“heyhey” post=“11878” timestamp=“1370815021”]
[quote author=Bushstar link=topic=853.msg11862#msg11862 date=1370811043]Let me be clear, we cannot rollback 100 blocks. Doing so would not teach the attackers a lesson. They only want to do damage and us rolling back that much would do more damage than they ever
[/quote]So Bush，what’s the solution to this ？
[/quote]The solution is, as it always has been - mine, mine, mine some more, get some friends to mine, etc.
We need more legit miners to bring the hash rate up so as to make the required hash power to pull off such an attack so prohibitive that it would not be feasible or economical.
TN
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[quote name=“heyhey” post=“11878” timestamp=“1370815021”]
[quote author=Bushstar link=topic=853.msg11862#msg11862 date=1370811043]Let me be clear, we cannot rollback 100 blocks. Doing so would not teach the attackers a lesson. They only want to do damage and us rolling back that much would do more damage than they ever
[/quote]So Bush，what’s the solution to this ？
[/quote]At present mine, mine and more mining, and let bushstar and others work on the problem. 8)
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[quote name=“heyhey” post=“11878” timestamp=“1370815021”]
[quote author=Bushstar link=topic=853.msg11862#msg11862 date=1370811043]Let me be clear, we cannot rollback 100 blocks. Doing so would not teach the attackers a lesson. They only want to do damage and us rolling back that much would do more damage than they ever
[/quote]So Bush，what’s the solution to this ？
[/quote]Consequences of rolling 100 blocks back are dire. There are too many valid transactions. BTC-e may be into a huge loss. I woudn’t be surprised if they delist FTC after that.
