Under Attack Again
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“22189” timestamp=“1374223625”]
jamestown on the trollbox was a former miner and believer in Feathercoin. He is now lost to us because of the “5th attack” again a few hours ago. He is saying that he is about to dump a lot of Feathercoin on to the BTC-e exchange and this makes me sad.If he was just a troll I wouldn’t care but he seems smart and heart broken. That was another attack after the one yesterday?
[/quote]I understand his frustration. With that being said, he could pull up coinchoose, close his eyes, point to any coin and it will be more likely to compromise. We’re attacked because of the status of the coin. [b]We hate to lose people[/b], we’re doing everything we can to resolve it . This isn’t something that was put on the back burner… it’s not a simple solution and we’ll need to be the first Scrypt coin to implement one.
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[quote name=“Justabitoftime” post=“22227” timestamp=“1374243731”]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=2847.msg22189#msg22189 date=1374223625]
jamestown on the trollbox was a former miner and believer in Feathercoin. He is now lost to us because of the “5th attack” again a few hours ago. He is saying that he is about to dump a lot of Feathercoin on to the BTC-e exchange and this makes me sad.If he was just a troll I wouldn’t care but he seems smart and heart broken. That was another attack after the one yesterday?
[/quote]Current Network Speed 842,750,247 KHash/s (60 block avg.)!
I understand his frustration. With that being said, he could pull up coinchoose, close his eyes, point to any coin and it will be more likely to compromise. We’re attacked because of the status of the coin. [b]We hate to lose people[/b], we’re doing everything we can to resolve it . This isn’t something that was put on the back burner… it’s not a simple solution and we’ll need to be the first Scrypt coin to implement one.
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Obviously something isn’t being reported correctly on the stats page, I notified Bush.
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block explorer is showing low difficulty and blocks being generated within seconds of each other. even if the stats page isn’t reporting correctly, the block explorer should be and what it is showing is truly disturbing.
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I wish i knew what was going on?
Hope it can be fixed ;D
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Also noticed, that the timestamps of the latest blocks are not in normal order.
If you start at the current block and move backward, the creation times of previous blocks are later than those of following blocks
Example:
Block 52514 timestamp 1374248324 (2013-07-19 15:38:44)
Block 52515 timestamp 1374248320 (2013-07-19 15:38:40)Strange…
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I’m afraid we have to act quickly. Either with advanced checkpointing or something else. People start to panic.
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[quote name=“ghostlander” post=“22239” timestamp=“1374247221”]
I’m afraid we have to act quickly. Either with advanced checkpointing or something else. People start to panic.
[/quote]right now ftc is starting to get dumped on btc-e.
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[quote name=“jeremiel” post=“22242” timestamp=“1374247675”]
[quote author=ghostlander link=topic=2847.msg22239#msg22239 date=1374247221]
I’m afraid we have to act quickly. Either with advanced checkpointing or something else. People start to panic.
[/quote]right now ftc is starting to get dumped on btc-e.
[/quote]Cant wait to buy cheap ftc when the time comes, hopefully right before we’re able to get out of this shitstorm. What i can say is that when ftc survives this one there truly is high hopes for this coin and the comunity!
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[quote name=“ghostlander” post=“22239” timestamp=“1374247221”]
I’m afraid we have to act quickly. Either with advanced checkpointing or something else. People start to panic.
[/quote]I agree. It looks like the attacker has done something to the block chain to lower the difficulty and is proceeding with a 51% attack. Lower difficulty means confirmations are faster, therefore attacker could potentially cash in before the exchanges can react.
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[quote name=“svennand” post=“22244” timestamp=“1374248184”]
[quote author=jeremiel link=topic=2847.msg22242#msg22242 date=1374247675]
[quote author=ghostlander link=topic=2847.msg22239#msg22239 date=1374247221]
I’m afraid we have to act quickly. Either with advanced checkpointing or something else. People start to panic.
[/quote]right now ftc is starting to get dumped on btc-e.
[/quote]Cant wait to buy cheap ftc when the time comes, hopefully right before we’re able to get out of this shitstorm. What i can say is that when ftc survives this one there truly is high hopes for this coin and the comunity!
[/quote]I was hoping to do that on cryptsy but we’ll see. That also could be the reason for the attacks. They know that ftc will bounce back so they’ll get to buy real cheap ftc. though these attacks the last couple days seem to be going after the foundations of ftc. I mean how do you cause the block chain to go down in difficulty but the hash go up?
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[quote name=“jeremiel” post=“22242” timestamp=“1374247675”]
[quote author=ghostlander link=topic=2847.msg22239#msg22239 date=1374247221]
I’m afraid we have to act quickly. Either with advanced checkpointing or something else. People start to panic.
[/quote]right now ftc is starting to get dumped on btc-e.
[/quote]Being dumped and going straight back up, people know its still cheap.
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[url=http://explorer.feathercoin.com/address/71om8JdKi72gihUwpsbzHNifmRpot8pv7u]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/address/71om8JdKi72gihUwpsbzHNifmRpot8pv7u[/url]
This look like one of the attackers. Notice what happens at block 52423.
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[quote name=“DaMooMoo” post=“22249” timestamp=“1374249077”]
[url=http://explorer.feathercoin.com/address/71om8JdKi72gihUwpsbzHNifmRpot8pv7u]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/address/71om8JdKi72gihUwpsbzHNifmRpot8pv7u[/url]This look like one of the attackers. Notice what happens at block 52423.
[/quote]yep thats the one take a look at what was going on with this block…looks like 20,000 FTC got rolled back and moved on this block and they also modified the difficulty.
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[quote]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/address/71om8JdKi72gihUwpsbzHNifmRpot8pv7u
This look like one of the attackers. Notice what happens at block 52423.[/quote]
[b]nope not attacker this is coinotron[/b]
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Are the other UNOCS networks under attack as well, or is it just an FTC attack?
Can we hire ninja assassins to go after the attackers?
First question was actually serious.
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[quote name=“mercsuey” post=“22292” timestamp=“1374262353”]
Are the other UNOCS networks under attack as well, or is it just an FTC attack?Can we hire ninja assassins to go after the attackers?
First question was actually serious.
[/quote]FTC attack. I had a chance to meet with the partners a few hours ago on what we need to do to better protect ourselves as a whole.
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[quote name=“groll” post=“22284” timestamp=“1374261325”]
[quote]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/address/71om8JdKi72gihUwpsbzHNifmRpot8pv7uThis look like one of the attackers. Notice what happens at block 52423.[/quote]
[b]nope not attacker this is coinotron[/b]
[/quote]All of the 52423 blocks are from coinotron?
How does that explain the 20k FTC change from the start to the end of the block?
What if coinotron is the attacker, they just did post a “vulnerability”…they could be attempting to mislead us into thinking they are not the problem. -
[quote name=“RIPPEDDRAGON” post=“22297” timestamp=“1374262566”]
[quote author=groll link=topic=2847.msg22284#msg22284 date=1374261325]
[quote]http://explorer.feathercoin.com/address/71om8JdKi72gihUwpsbzHNifmRpot8pv7uThis look like one of the attackers. Notice what happens at block 52423.[/quote]
[b]nope not attacker this is coinotron[/b]
[/quote]All of the 52423 blocks are from coinotron?
How does that explain the 20k FTC change from the start to the end of the block?
What if coinotron is the attacker, they just did post a “vulnerability”…they could be attempting to mislead us into thinking they are not the problem.
[/quote]Coinotron has in my opinion been an excellent pool partner for ftc.
Just ashame that they have dissabled PPS since the first attack.
Also i do not think coinotron would risk getting bad publicity like that. -
[quote]All of the 52423 blocks are from coinotron? [/quote]
not all, the finder and 2 transaction of past block rewards of ~200 to an address for 10K each. so yes they move 2 time 10K to another address in small batch of ~200 for a total of 20K[quote]How does that explain the 20k FTC change from the start to the end of the block?[/quote]
they just move payout to their out address(probably the address used for payout) as they do regularly this is a practice that make sense as you want to do separation between the input and the payout when calculated in the accounting[quote]What if coinotron is the attacker, they just did post a “vulnerability”…they could be attempting to mislead us into thinking they are not the problem.[/quote]
possible. But not likely they usually got a lot of orphan during attacks and have a rate of >1.5Gh/s in block found. if they are the attacker they have the attacker 2.5Gh/s + 1.5Gh/s (vary between 500K to 2Gh/s depending on diff and profitability) so they would have 4Gh/s yesterday at the time of the attack and the day before.
