Riccochet
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yeah been trying to get awesome miner going as well. Shit makes no sense. I did get it mining Musicoin and Sia, but it's not getting any kind of good hash rate.
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Ick nicehash down
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stealthballer123
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That's further than I got, i don't think its logging into my miningpoolhub thing at all and I can't figure out why.
add a worker and map that worker to the split you want
Riccochet
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And that's the kind of answer I'm talking about. Vague and not technically specific. It's like someone asking you how to drive a car and you saying "just get in and go" without explaining where the gas and brake pedals are or how to operate them.
What's confusing is in Awesome Miner when adding a pool there is a spot for a worker name. If I put my worker name in there it's no good. If I put the worker name in via the command line option under the miner it works.
Specifics. People need specifics, not vague generalizations.
What's there not to get? I've got it figured out in about an hour and I'm literally brand new to mining. I logged in to my second day of NiceHash to be greeted by the hack news...
you could have been like me and said meh I'll empty this wallet out in the morning after the $100 day deposits
if you need more than what I gave then minings not for you. I was 100x more helpful than most.
Riccochet
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So helpful, you are. We should all be thankful you are here.
In other words, you're not interested in actually helping people, but would rather revel in our own arrogance.
Got it.
stealthballer123
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SC: Stratum - Connected (hub.miningpoolhub.com:17022)
ETH: Authorization failed
: {"id":2,"result":false,"error":null}
Stratum - reading socket failed 10038, disconnect
ETH: Job timeout, disconnect, retry in 20 sec...
SC: Authorization failed
: {"id":2,"result":false,"error":null}
Stratum - reading socket failed 10038, disconnect
SC: Job timeout, disconnect, retry in 20 sec...
ETH: Authorization failed
: {"id":2,"result":false,"error":null}
Stratum - reading socket failed 10038, disconnect
ETH: Job timeout, disconnect, retry in 20 sec...
SC: Authorization failed
: {"id":2,"result":false,"error":null}
Stratum - reading socket failed 10038, disconnect
SC: Job timeout, disconnect, retry in 20 sec...
I gave you help on the only thing that threw me off with MPH and you were a dick about it so yep back to watching Gdax and looking for my next exit point while pretending to do my real job. I'm not gonna write a tutorial complete with screenshots which you seem to need.
Elkwood
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Damn wish i had helpful insight on that. I gather u checked your workers name and all that stuff. Does that one have ot have
a wallet address in it to function ?I looked around in a few places but didn't see that exact failure
Elkwood
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Looks like NiceHash will be doing a Live stream at 4pm est time on facebook
gox'd!
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Ze coins, zey are gone.
But hey, we're totally gonna try to get 'em back! ... Also, not really.
But hey, we're totally gonna try to get 'em back! ... Also, not really.
If I get robbed I still have to pay for my mortgage, car..etc. I still have to pay my obligations. They seem to not get this part. I guess after the interpol warrants issue and realize they will have to stick to living in 3rd world shit holes with no extradition treaties that it might be better to open their piggy bank and pay out the unpaid mining balances that they owe.
Slovenia joined the EU in '04. Slovenia also has extradition treaty with USA.
Tried WinMiner but got message not accepting new members or something like that but to leave it running.
Tried MinerGate and so far it has done nothing - lol.
When I get a chance I will try Nanopool or some other pool.
Using Coinbase for BTC, ETC and LTC wallets while I figure out the best hardware wallet to use.
Appears to me Nichhash will come back online, not sure if the buyers will though. I guess it depends if the Buyers will be reimbursed one way or another. Without the buyers it makes the mining side less lucrative for them. Also they will have to make sure all their servers are purged of any backdoor crap the hackers might have left behind (minding if not an inside scoop).
As for the hacker(s), good luck in trading those Bitcoins - my guess they will make a deal with NiceHash or try to use the more untraceable currencies like Monero having NichHash pay them a sum in Monero for them to get back their Bitcoins. Then again how do you trust the hacker(s) to come through? A little at a time?. If you pay them then you are encouraging more of the same, if you don't your customers will lose, your business is toast unless there is a 60+ million worth of Bitcoins they don't mind parting with.
Tried MinerGate and so far it has done nothing - lol.
When I get a chance I will try Nanopool or some other pool.
Using Coinbase for BTC, ETC and LTC wallets while I figure out the best hardware wallet to use.
Appears to me Nichhash will come back online, not sure if the buyers will though. I guess it depends if the Buyers will be reimbursed one way or another. Without the buyers it makes the mining side less lucrative for them. Also they will have to make sure all their servers are purged of any backdoor crap the hackers might have left behind (minding if not an inside scoop).
As for the hacker(s), good luck in trading those Bitcoins - my guess they will make a deal with NiceHash or try to use the more untraceable currencies like Monero having NichHash pay them a sum in Monero for them to get back their Bitcoins. Then again how do you trust the hacker(s) to come through? A little at a time?. If you pay them then you are encouraging more of the same, if you don't your customers will lose, your business is toast unless there is a 60+ million worth of Bitcoins they don't mind parting with.
I'm aware... Italy is clearly the dick
just start a casino or something like the ole tumblers and very very slowly trickle them out. The best is if you made a tumbler that could convert to different coins. There's plenty of ways of doing it. Personally I'd probably just let them all sit untouched for a year then if its up another 1k% I'd say F you to the world and buy an island where nobody can touch me and buy whatever i want.
Elkwood
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Don't believe u are missing anything with winminer. IT was a mostly a bust on my sytems. I gave up on it this morning and
moved over to nano pool for Cpu mining on my threadripper and a another pool i cant even think of the name for my gpu stuff.
Setting the wallets up for the different coins was the biggest pain for me.
Going to be interesting to see how management with nicehash handles this. I almost think it was personal with who over did the hacking.
The guy that did the facebook live stream left me feeling that he was a conceded prick. Will need to make some big concussions to the
buyers to get them back on board. Like no fee's up to what they lost or something like that. Cause u know the BTC even if returned will never
be given back.
I think it be funny if the persons who took all the btc sent it out to all the payout address they most likely lifted. They could lift a 1000 coins
and give away the rest and be comfortable for rest of their admittedly short life
The thing is, a Bitcoin goes from one wallet to another - they are never converted or transformed to another coin - only exchanged. The holder of the Bitcoin transfer then can be potentially traced. It will be a risk for the hackers to take if they want to liquidate - since they all ended up it appears in one wallet - it seems to be more of a ransom arrangement. I would have thought some of the currency would have been placed elsewhere and liquidated quickly, maybe someone who already does use NiceHash. Looks like the hackers missed timed the event of the normal transfers that was to occur that night.
The hackers sent the bulk of the stolen BTC in 5 transfers. Four 1k BTC transfers and then one 622 BTC transfer. They didn't steal it from thousands of individual accounts.
They will have a hard time getting rid of it has BTC transactions are traceable on the blockchain by design. They can try using some tumbler service but a lot of those have a max limit of like 5 BTC or something like that. Also given the hours long delay time BTC has to actually record the transfer on the chain, authorities will have time to move on the destination address if it shows up on an exchange or other service.
So this is more like stealing a well known painting in that you really can't just sell it without getting caught.
They will have a hard time getting rid of it has BTC transactions are traceable on the blockchain by design. They can try using some tumbler service but a lot of those have a max limit of like 5 BTC or something like that. Also given the hours long delay time BTC has to actually record the transfer on the chain, authorities will have time to move on the destination address if it shows up on an exchange or other service.
So this is more like stealing a well known painting in that you really can't just sell it without getting caught.
The other trick is to dilute the stash, send the Bitcoins to 1000 or more addresses with one or two being the hackers collecting what is left over. Who would you prosecute and how much could be recovered after the smoke cleared? Cover fire. Some is better than spending rest of life in prison in Europe.
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You should instead do a research on which coin is worth investing.
I have earned $6000/4 months mining with cards that would give me about $500/month with NiceHash. I basically earned 3 times as much.
I dont know some of europes prisons are nice.
Thats what spec mining does but it requires effort and luck both.
BinarySynapse
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So I accidentally started up one of nicehash scripts and it connected to the pool. It didn't have any work though. So they're doing something to get back online.
Well ofcourse they are. They cashed out their float surgically at the most perfect time - at BTC's all-time-high and right before the expected CME & futures market shakes things up on the 18th, then claimed it was a "hack" and looked into the camera with "deep concern" while trying to suppress laughter, and now they're going to invite all the lazyminers back to repeat the cycle all over again.
It's brilliant actually.
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They haven't cashed out anything yet. it's going to take a lot of work to get those coins laundered, by which time (if what you're speculating is true) it'll probably have lost more than they were making legitimately to begin with.
By "cashed out" I don't mean converting to fiat. And the money they were making with their paltry 2-3% fees buying/selling cloud hashing was going into that float they just offboarded. No way will their wad of BTC lose more than the paltry fees they were skimming - ever.
The timing is just too surgically-perfect to be some random "hacker". These are smart assholes that were running NH, it was a calculated risk with the odds really in their favor, and they also factored that its grey area where the law and legal system - nevermind in freaking Slovenia - hasn't caught up with crypto crimes yet. They'll re-enable their back-end, lament "Let's put it behind us" and lazyminers will return to repeat the cycle all over again.
Their float become too massive and irresistible NOT to do what they did. The end result for them will be 3-5 days of fake downtime and 2-3% fees in exchange for $60M of BTC.
It's human nature: someone loans you something, and if you stare at it long enough, eventually you start rationalizing it belongs to you.
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And if i guess wrong?
To me that’s penny stock trading and I’ve found out in the last 15 years I’m not very good at it. Nicehash is the mutual or index fund comparison and you are picking individual stocks equivalent which is great when it works.
stealthballer123
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The first 3-4 months I was actively trading on the stock market I hit maybe 4 OTCs in row and quadrupled my money. I thought I was the wolf of wall street. Blew the whole thing up in a week chasing that high.
A lot about crypto feels exactly like OTC.
been there. I was playin pennies the year new orleans was destroyed by hurricanes. I happened to have some penny stocks in THAT REGION for storm cleanup. made over $200k which well from playin pennies you know what happened next.
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Who's going to mine for them knowing that they haven't paid miners what was owed and probably won't the next time they get hacked. Then who's going to buy from them knowing they have no miners, haven't reimbursed the previous buyers and probably won't the next time they get hacked? Those 3-5 days of downtime came with a pretty big black-eye and fat wad of nearly useless bitcoins.
Also, if it was an inside job, why send all of the coins to one address that everybody can see and a lot of people will be tracking for quite some time?
stealthballer123
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it was pretty dumb for whoever did it to take all the coins. They probably could have skimmed a few off and no one would have noticed.
did no one see Office space?
did no one see Office space?
Not sure how the Bitcoins are nearly useless - step one was offboarding. Now they've got nothing but time to let the heat die down and relocate/obfuscate methodically and slowly over time. A handful of nerds on reddit watching blockchain explorer helplessly isn't going to stop anything.
As for who's going to continue using NH - nearly everyone that already was, and shortly after, they'll have a bigger userbase than ever. Look at reddit/r/nicehash -- the morons cannot wait for the NH backend to be re-enabled. "Well hopefully Nicehash at least learned and made their passwurdz more sekure derpa derp so lets keep mining!".
Goldfish attention spans and 1-click laziness trumps ideals and convictions these days. If we were talking about an exchange getting hacked and cleaned out, that's one thing, but NH wasn't an exchange. People will rationalize that they will just withdraw to external wallet more frequently to minimize their exposure.
Seriously, stop and let it sink in that some people actually consider being stolen from an acceptable tradeoff for not having to get off their fucking ass and set up a commandline miner. It's nextlevel stupid.
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Stay away from Winminer. It's a scam. The website suggests being able to buy hashing power, but there's no way to do it. The only people buying hashpower are the owner(s) of Winminer -- at a substantial discount.
And stay away from MinerGate for the same reasons.
Archaea
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Minergate appears to be working well for my rig with 12 1060 cards. Eth hash rate is 270 MH/s which is about right. On their dashboard it appears to be accruing as expected. They say I can cash out in the coin I mine directly. What’s the beef?
As far as winminer I’ve ever used it. A friend tried it the other day and says he can’t uninstall it. It keeps coming back.