I apologize.

There was no money lost during this incident. The SSL certificate for our live balance server had expired. Chris renewed the certificate and the problem was resolved.

This morning, live balances and WAMP went offline. It turns out that Chris forgot to renew the site's SSL certificate. Because we use the Electronic Frontier Foundation's certificate authority, they limit certificates' validity to only three months, and Chris had not remembered to renew. No money wa...

yesterday i hashed with for 12 hours with 1 miner and 6 hours with 4 miners (would equal to (12 hours) + (6*4 hours) = 36 hours of hashingpower work) today im using 4 miners (now is 17:00 pm here = 17 hours) which would equal to 17 hours * 4 rigs = 68 hours of hashingpower work ) and i havent even ...

This issue should have been resolved. Let us know if there are any further issues.

Yes.

Here's a few notes: Chris was able to move the share tables to the Intel PRO 960 disks. Not only are they 7 times faster than 850 disks, they have no parity calculations because they are a RAID 1. The change may have made some difference in performance. Chris increased the minimum pool difficulty. T...

except this will negatively impact miners with hardware that simply cant handle higher difficulty You know the right way to handle this is the hard way, raising fees should never be involved in resolving issues, what they need to do if it is indeed a low difficulty issue is to look at the accounts ...

That won't work either as most users will have multiple miners behind a single NAT address per location and doesn't account for hosted miners, and local stratum proxies. Limiting connections won't work either because of the variation in hash power per miner where you could have 1 account with 330 M...

No, Chris will correct the balances.

I think I also just stumbled upon something that made a big difference. I was able to sacrifice a little bit of performance from the slowest miners to reduce database operator CPU load. Let's see whether this keeps things going for now.

We figured out a solution to this issue. We're going to charge users with low difficulties more than users with high difficulties. People will basically pay for low variance. Difficulty doesn't affect profit, so miners will be able to simply raise their difficulties and not be affected by this change.