Feathercoin network up 3 % over 2 days- NETWORK ATTACK?
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[quote name=“Vigil” post=“22252” timestamp=“1374249867”]
So which pool should we be mining on?
[/quote]Actually, it started happening about 10hours ago. a quick way around it was to change from stratum to getwork pool. Thus just temp change to getwork, its a alternative solution… But I guess most pool should have resolve this problem…
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[quote name=“Vigil” post=“22252” timestamp=“1374249867”]
So which pool should we be mining on?
[/quote]Multipool was patched last night.
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anyone see that
[b]10 Gh/s [/b]spike?
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[quote name=“111111111111111111111” post=“22295” timestamp=“1374262549”]
anyone see that[b]10 Gh/s [/b]spike?
[/quote]Low difficulty without the exchange rate going down, looks like those multipools are aiming their hash at ftc.
at 0.00088 ftc/btc and a diff at 32 (at the time) ftc was REALLY profitable ::) -
[quote name=“wesphily” post=“22319” timestamp=“1374267118”]
[quote author=vasp link=topic=2846.msg22223#msg22223 date=1374243157]
Seems FTC were dead from now :( It is a pity, hoping that this will be the currency of a minimum replacement for litecoins :(
[/quote]FTC is not dead.
[/quote]If it’s dead, does it mean we can all avoid the insane back to back late nights? :) We were attacked, we continue to push forward.
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6g6BPvtT9Rb3HcXWH4KjWNGAaJPa7nT3UK
as of 8:15pm this addr4sss got 47,000? the block rate is sometimes seconds. I thought it was fixed so he couldn’t exploit stratum.
http://cryptocoinexplorer.com:5750/address/6g6BPvtT9Rb3HcXWH4KjWNGAaJPa7nT3UK
- Could we get some live crypto network statistics / charts on the forum, so the community can monitor more easily to diagnosed any further suspicious activity, and not so biased to “Tradeing” sites lie coinchoose.
Perhaps this explains - the block average rate prediction of the start date, anomaly, i.e. the difference to the actual start date is a measure of fraudulently included blocks during past attacks.
(see : my updated chart : Days coins mined pre announce calculated from block rate.gif)
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“22322” timestamp=“1374267872”]
6g6BPvtT9Rb3HcXWH4KjWNGAaJPa7nT3UKas of 8:15pm this addr4sss got 47,000? the block rate is sometimes seconds. I thought it was fixed so he couldn’t exploit stratum.
http://cryptocoinexplorer.com:5750/address/6g6BPvtT9Rb3HcXWH4KjWNGAaJPa7nT3UK
- Could we get some live crypto network statistics / charts on the forum, so the community can monitor more easily to diagnosed any further suspicious activity, and not so biased to “Tradeing” sites lie coinchoose.
Perhaps this explains - the block average rate prediction of the start date, anomaly, i.e. the difference to the actual start date is a measure of fraudulently included blocks during past attacks.
(see : my updated chart : Days coins mined pre announce calculated from block rate.gif)
[/quote]So something along the lines of a comparitive line chart of hashes from partner coins, litecoin, and bitcoin? Is there a online db somewhere that a historical hash rates can be pulled and diff adjust?
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[quote name=“vasp” post=“22223” timestamp=“1374243157”]
Seems FTC were dead from now :( It is a pity, hoping that this will be the currency of a minimum replacement for litecoins :(
[/quote]When we pretend that we’re dead
When we pretend that we’re dead
They can’t hear a word we’ve said
When we pretend that we’re dead -
[quote name=“jeremiel” post=“22324” timestamp=“1374268225”]
[quote author=wrapper0feather link=topic=2846.msg22322#msg22322 date=1374267872]
6g6BPvtT9Rb3HcXWH4KjWNGAaJPa7nT3UKas of 8:15pm this addr4sss got 47,000? the block rate is sometimes seconds. I thought it was fixed so he couldn’t exploit stratum.
http://cryptocoinexplorer.com:5750/address/6g6BPvtT9Rb3HcXWH4KjWNGAaJPa7nT3UK
- Could we get some live crypto network statistics / charts on the forum, so the community can monitor more easily to diagnosed any further suspicious activity, and not so biased to “Tradeing” sites lie coinchoose.
Perhaps this explains - the block average rate prediction of the start date, anomaly, i.e. the difference to the actual start date is a measure of fraudulently included blocks during past attacks.
(see : my updated chart : Days coins mined pre announce calculated from block rate.gif)
[/quote]So something along the lines of a comparitive line chart of hashes from partner coins, litecoin, and bitcoin? Is there a online db somewhere that a historical hash rates can be pulled and diff adjust?
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My investigation last night showed a potential insertion of the odd block, not the massive multiple obvious inserts. This is more insiduous as these inserts are coins being stolen and would be more difficult to trace.
What tools do we need to do a weekly analysis the blockchain, and highlight all potentially dodgy blocks?
Please test the current block chain for any anomalies urgently. Post these Blocks and fraudulent addresses on the Investigations Page.
Some anomalies may be due to bugs or merged mining going wrong, they need identifying urgently for attention.
I have posted the incorrect times of some of the blocks as a new potential new attack vector and am doing a new survey this morning to see how many more coins were stolen last night.
If there was a minimum block time, incorrect dates would not have been been confirmed. Each should also be confirmed if it is consistent with the previous and post block.
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Current hash rate: 10,325,560 KHash/s
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“22467” timestamp=“1374387867”]
My investigation last night showed a potential insertion of the odd block, not the massive multiple obvious inserts. This is more insiduous as these inserts are coins being stolen and would be more difficult to trace.What tools do we need to do a weekly analysis the blockchain, and highlight all potentially dodgy blocks?
Please test the current block chain for any anomalies urgently. Post these Blocks and fraudulent addresses on the Investigations Page.
Some anomalies may be due to bugs or merged mining going wrong, they need identifying urgently for attention.
I have posted the incorrect times of some of the blocks as a new potential new attack vector and am doing a new survey this morning to see how many more coins were stolen last night.
If there was a minimum block time, incorrect dates would not have been been confirmed. Each should also be confirmed if it is consistent with the previous and post block.
[/quote]Here’s the results of the analysis of extra coins mined by the attacks during the last 3 days. Its in terms of “Days of coins” mined.
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[quote name=“vasp” post=“22223” timestamp=“1374243157”]
Seems FTC were dead from now :( It is a pity, hoping that this will be the currency of a minimum replacement for litecoins :(
[/quote]Such a sad turn of events. It was a nice coin too.
I am accepting donations for a memorial. Please send your FTCs here 6rCZJrF69haX49HEEWedCNffGCcV4oWHdG
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[quote name=“Magic8Ball” post=“22483” timestamp=“1374401939”]
[quote author=vasp link=topic=2846.msg22223#msg22223 date=1374243157]
Seems FTC were dead from now :( It is a pity, hoping that this will be the currency of a minimum replacement for litecoins :(
[/quote]Such a sad turn of events. It was a nice coin too.
I am accepting donations for a memorial. Please send your FTCs here 6rCZJrF69haX49HEEWedCNffGCcV4oWHdG
[/quote]If that is the case all coins are affected, these show the attack was too the pools and all coins, the Bitcoins and Litecoins would be the most profitable to steal.
The charts show the change in “additional block days” above specification from 19th to 20th.7.2013.
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You really should look at the chain as a whole. Looking at the entire chain you can see that Feathercoin is actually behind in blocks per design, which means there were periods of time where no blocks where found in the 2.5 minute allocation.
Time of first block: 1366147060 (2013-04-16 21:17:40)
2.5 minute blocks (150 sec)
Current Unix Time: 1374421048
Seconds Passed since Block #1: 8273988
Estimated Blocks@ 150sec each: 55160
Actual Blocks in Chain: 54471
# Blocks Behind: 689
BigVern
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Hi BigVern, thanks for checking my calcs
I have already noted previously, Feathercoin was much further behind the coin production rate, before the attack on 19th July 2013.
It will be interesting to see if you see the same reduction in missed blocks I have seen on my analysis.
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“22521” timestamp=“1374425683”]
Hi BigVern, thanks for checking my calcsI have already noted previously, Feathercoin was much further behind the coin production rate, before the attack on 19th July 2013.
It will be interesting to see if you see the same reduction in missed blocks I have seen on my analysis.
[/quote]DigitalCoin is one I choose to examine. Now with digital coin, the genesisblock was mined 14 days before the first block was mined - which is unusual to see. In line 2048 of main.cpp of the source code has “block.nTime = 1367867384;”, so it’s probably from the genesis block timestamp.
DigitalCoin
Genesis Block Time: 1367867384 (2013-05-06 19:09:44)
First Block Time: 1369043847 (2013-05-20 09:57:27)
Current Time: 1374434894
Seconds In Use from 1st Block: 5391047
Seconds In Use from Genesis Block: 6567510Block Time: 20 sec
Max Block Height (1st block): 269553
Max Block Height (Genesis block): 328376Current Block Height: 272882
Blocks Over (1st block): 3329 (66580 seconds or 0.77 days)
Blocks Under (Genesis block): 55494BigVern
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Here are some more stats for Feathercoin pulled from my pool database:
BlockCount / Min Block / Max Block / Date
130 21928 22058 2013-04-23
680 22059 22739 2013-04-24
654 22740 23394 2013-04-25
700 23395 24095 2013-04-26
581 24096 24677 2013-04-27
904 24678 25582 2013-04-28
1167 25583 26750 2013-04-29
1195 26752 27947 2013-04-30
758 27948 28706 2013-05-01
837 28707 29544 2013-05-02
1074 29545 30619 2013-05-03
911 30621 31532 2013-05-04
758 31533 32291 2013-05-05
170 32292 32462 2013-05-06
61 32463 32524 2013-05-07
50 32525 32575 2013-05-08
26 32576 32602 2013-05-09
48 32603 32651 2013-05-10
41 32652 32693 2013-05-11
28 32694 32722 2013-05-12
38 32723 32761 2013-05-13
28 32762 32790 2013-05-14
14 32791 32805 2013-05-15
14 32806 32820 2013-05-16
9 32821 32830 2013-05-17
19 32831 32850 2013-05-18
15 32851 32866 2013-05-19
20 32867 32887 2013-05-20
40 32888 32928 2013-05-21
44 32929 32973 2013-05-22
61 32974 33035 2013-05-23
39 33036 33075 2013-05-24
23 33076 33099 2013-05-25
28 33100 33128 2013-05-26
24 33129 33153 2013-05-27
26 33155 33181 2013-05-28
18 33182 33200 2013-05-29
19 33201 33220 2013-05-30
25 33221 33246 2013-05-31
28 33247 33275 2013-06-01
36 33276 33312 2013-06-02
38 33313 33351 2013-06-03
42 33352 33394 2013-06-04
54 33395 33449 2013-06-05
35 33450 33485 2013-06-06
50 33486 33536 2013-06-07
111 33537 33648 2013-06-08
284 33649 33933 2013-06-09
1302 33934 35236 2013-06-10
688 35239 35927 2013-06-11
156 35928 36084 2013-06-12
112 36085 36197 2013-06-13
364 36198 36562 2013-06-14
713 36564 37277 2013-06-15
508 37278 37786 2013-06-16
608 37787 38395 2013-06-17
238 38397 38635 2013-06-18
95 38636 38731 2013-06-19
86 38732 38818 2013-06-20
457 38819 39276 2013-06-21
511 39277 39788 2013-06-22
682 39790 40472 2013-06-23
587 40473 41060 2013-06-24
577 41061 41638 2013-06-25
553 41639 42192 2013-06-26
487 42194 42681 2013-06-27
652 42682 43334 2013-06-28
395 43335 43730 2013-06-29
741 43732 44473 2013-06-30
272 44474 44746 2013-07-01
481 44747 45228 2013-07-02
332 45230 45562 2013-07-03
455 45564 46019 2013-07-04
897 46023 46920 2013-07-05
232 46922 47154 2013-07-06
156 47157 47313 2013-07-07
221 47314 47535 2013-07-08
319 47536 47855 2013-07-09
761 47854 48615 2013-07-10
679 48617 49296 2013-07-11
315 49299 49614 2013-07-12
192 49615 49807 2013-07-13
449 49808 50257 2013-07-14
443 50259 50702 2013-07-15
673 50705 51378 2013-07-16
315 51381 51696 2013-07-17
493 51697 52190 2013-07-18
1281 52191 53472 2013-07-19
413 53473 53886 2013-07-20
656 53888 54544 2013-07-21 -
23rd May to 21st July Chart of Feathercoin Blocks per day against specification (BigVerns Data).
Number of Blocks
should have been produced : 51840
were produced : 32502Unusual low block production rates : 7.5.2013 to 7.6.2013
Low block rates from Blocks 32463 to 33200
Could it be the block rate was being suppressed for a month, in a seperate more subtle attack, in order to have missing back coins to steal during the main attack?
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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.
