Information on attacks
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[quote name=“J4c0b5L4tt3r” post=“11895” timestamp=“1370815960”]
I am still mining, but I would like to know, It is normal for my hash rate to drop on my boxes? I’m using the same settings as I have been. Is this something to do with the pools? Or is it my setup? Thanks!
[/quote]Try solo mining.
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1453.0 -
[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]Pools seem to be up right now and we we have not had any blocks orphaned for a while. With our increased profitability we will see a lot of miners coming over which is a short term solution. We are recovering from a very high difficulty, now that this is going down we will get more miners jumping back on. More hash power makes us more difficult to attack.
Long term we are looking at technical solutions that would make attacks like this much more costly to undertake. The biggest defence we have is to grow the coin. We are constantly working to get more people mining, trading and using Feathercoin.
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Man this is great! So, we paid some miners to boost up the hashrate for a day and send us to the top of Coinwarz so we get even more miners now … money well spent.
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2 miners just brought more than 15 MH/s apiece onto wemineFTC.
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“11901” timestamp=“1370816628”]
Man this is great! So, we paid some miners to boost up the hashrate for a day and send us to the top of Coinwarz so we get even more miners now … money well spent.
[/quote]Interesting way to look at it.
I hope Bush and co find a way to lock that wallet.
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[quote name=“dgiors” post=“11911” timestamp=“1370817215”]
2 miners just brought more than 15 GH/s apiece onto wemineFTC.
Glad to see some big guns joining the fray.
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Assuming you mean MHs? That’s because Give-me-ftc went down. -
Looks like give-me-ftc is working again.
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[quote name=“Nutnut” post=“11918” timestamp=“1370817753”]
[quote author=dgiors link=topic=853.msg11911#msg11911 date=1370817215]
2 miners just brought more than 15 GH/s apiece onto wemineFTC.
Glad to see some big guns joining the fray.
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Assuming you mean MHs? That’s because Give-me-ftc went down.
[/quote]LOL, corrected.
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[quote name=“xyzzy” post=“11923” timestamp=“1370818138”]
P2Pool is the way forwardNo central pools to DDOS
Maximum hash rate so that 51% is more unlikely.
BTW: Anyone have any idea who/or what was behind the 51%?
[/quote]P2pool hashrate has jumped last few days, hope it stays up.
As for the attacks. No idea… but I’m waiting to see what happens tomorrow.
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[quote name=“Mogumodz” post=“11948” timestamp=“1370820269”]
[quote author=xyzzy link=topic=853.msg11923#msg11923 date=1370818138]
P2Pool is the way forwardNo central pools to DDOS
Maximum hash rate so that 51% is more unlikely.
BTW: Anyone have any idea who/or what was behind the 51%?
[/quote]P2pool hashrate has jumped last few days, hope it stays up.
As for the attacks. No idea… but I’m waiting to see what happens tomorrow.
[/quote]Agreed. Please keep everyone updated in this thread as a central point regarding the attacks.
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[quote name=“spynappels” post=“11864” timestamp=“1370813941”]
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…
[/quote]Yes mine say slow or invalid users but blocks are being confirmed and paid
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Hashrate at 2,2ghash/s
Another attack or just really popular coin? -
With FTC off of Coinchoose (apparently) and/or CC getting DDoS’d that would not be a good thing.
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Just wondering who are doing all the attacks? Anti-FTC group? seems like they are doing the attack at important change of events (the hard fork@33000) and now the new lower diff.
I am just guessing :
What is the objective of doing the attacks?
to prove or to make a point that the particular currency isn’t safe/stable that it can be attacked, creating a fear and losing trust.
to prevent the particular currency from gaining popular foothold.Who will benefit from the attacks.
- Banks or Government that doesn’t want want a crypto currency.
- other currency holder that only wants their own currency success by trying to kill off others.
(eg, BTC fanboys wants to kill LTC, LTC wants to kill FTC… etc…) - someone who just wants to prove a point… hmm…
for group 1, not likely, they would want to hit the big boys which should be BTC, why hit FTC?
for group 2, very possible, in fighting happens alot of time in history.
for group 3. may also belongs to the group 2, but with a heart for doing things they feel right.
All of the above are just speculation.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=230308.0;all
Interesting read
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If the value of Feathercoin was left up to a few guys chatting it up on a message board, we’d all be screwed. :)
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I vote the attacker was bored.
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Are there any protocols in development that could prevent 51% control of a coin?
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[quote name=“Entimp” post=“12301” timestamp=“1370858190”]
Are there any protocols in development that could prevent 51% control of a coin?
[/quote]Install v0.6.4.1 of the client with checkpoints introduced.
[url=https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1525.0]Feathercoin 0.6.4.1 Released - Checkpoints Added[/url]
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The problem of FTC and all the other scrypt based coins is that they use an identical hashing algorithm.
How about we [i]slightly[/i] modify this algorithm, to make it impossible for attackers to simply switch an LTC, WDC, CNC,etc. pool to FTC?
Plus create a fork of cgminer - or talk to ckolivas to include our new hashing algorithm in cgminer.
