BITCLUB NEWS Website Downtime, Ranking Scripts, GPU and More... Date: April 12th
Included in this update...
• Website Attacks Causing Downtime • Ranking & Repurchase Scripts • Founder Bonuses Paid • GPU Mining Update
Website Attacks Causing Downtime
Over the past several days we have been experiencing large waves of DDOS attacks with combined flood attacks from our remote landing pages. Basically, we are seeing tens of thousands of fake leads flooding into the system (per second) so we have been taking the sign-up forms offline when needed and making some important upgrades.
If you signed up any new leads over the past 48 hours and they did not confirm their email or sign up immediately then it's possible they have been deleted from the system.
Several million entries have been deleted so far and it's been difficult to determine real from fake so there are likely many valid accounts being deleted as well.
This only affects new leads on their initial enrolment and all you need to do is tell your new leads to sign up again if they were deleted.
We have been mitigating attacks like these for many months but over the last 48 hours the attackers have scaled up 10-fold. For the most part these attacks are completely harmless they are just very annoying and it's been causing the site to be slow and some scripts to die.
It is also VERY expensive for attackers to continue these attempts so they should stop soon enough.
Ranking & Repurchase Scripts
The one major inconvenience these attacks have caused is they have been interrupting our commission scripts that are used to calculate Rank and Repurchases. These are now back logged in our system and we hope to catch up soon.
So, if you have not seen the repurchases or a bump in your rank this is the reason why and this will be updated soon.
You may see some additional downtime later this week as we implement a custom firewall solution that will detect attacks like this one in the future.
We actually launched this feature today and the website is currently catching about 90% of these fake enrolments now so you probably already noticed the site is running much better.
However, if you do see some downtime it’s because we are working on this piece and there is nothing to worry about.
Founder Bonuses Paid...
All Founder 1 and Founder 2 bonus pools have been paid through February and we will be paying March bonus on April 15th. You can now see the total mining numbers updated under the Founders page so you can track our progress.
We are about to see an additional 60 PH come online with a lot more behind it and this should provide a nice uptick in earnings per mining share across the board with a lot more power coming online shortly after.
GPU Mining Update...
We are on track to start paying all new shares on April 15th. Our techs have been working around the clock installing new machines and getting everything ready to go. This was the largest deployment we have done so far and we are very excited to get it hashing in our pools ASAP.
All shares will be set to mine Ethereum to start and then shortly after you will have the opportunity to switch over to whatever you want. We estimate this will be about 1-2 weeks before we have all the other wallets and pools finalized.
Once these are ready you will see 3 new wallets go live (Dash, Monero, Ethereum Classic) and then you will have full control over your shares in the future.
NOTE: If you purchased a share of Ethereum in the original first batch we offered and your share was mining before the hard fork of Ethereum Classic then your ETC coins will be available for withdrawal in the new ETC wallet.
We want to thank you for your patience on this because we know many members have been anxious to receive their ETC rewards from when the split happened.
Our goal is to continue expanding our GPU farms and as of today we own one of the largest super computers in the world when you account for all these GPU's connected together. This is a huge asset and it can be used way beyond the scope of mining in the future.
Thanks for being a BitClub member and please help us pass along this information to all members across the world.
Sincerely, -BCN Support |