Upcoming for Feathercoin - 10 days - So much going on
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[b]Upcoming for Feathercoin[/b]
July 20th - Oxford Blue FTC Beer Meet-up
July 22nd - UNOCS first major service release
July 30th - Bitcoin Conference[b]Updates[/b]
- Pools are being notified of Stratum vulnerability
- Bushstar is waiting back on a few items regarding the advanced checkpoint system
- I’ve spent quite a bit of time today with our partners… we’re all very excited about our upcoming release
Feathercoin has one of the largest network hashrates next to Litecoin among Scrypt coins. If we’re able to be attacked, imagine what some of the smaller coins face. While it absolutely sickens me that are miners and community members were cheated out of coins, we will use this information to build a better protection.
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Go feathercoin, come on members lets hear it. ;D ;D
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[quote name=“Justabitoftime” post=“22318” timestamp=“1374267075”]
- Pools are being notified of Stratum vulnerability
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I’m confused. Weren’t the pools notified of this vulnerability when it was brought up before?
- Pools are being notified of Stratum vulnerability
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“22346” timestamp=“1374286052”]
[quote author=Justabitoftime link=topic=2876.msg22318#msg22318 date=1374267075]- Pools are being notified of Stratum vulnerability
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I’m confused. Weren’t the pools notified of this vulnerability when it was brought up before?
[/quote]We’re making sure we hit even the little guys… digging for any/every pool and verifying it actually was applied. This was posted hours ago.
- Pools are being notified of Stratum vulnerability
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[quote name=“Justabitoftime” post=“22349” timestamp=“1374287833”]
We’re making sure we hit even the little guys… digging for any/every pool and verifying it actually was applied. This was posted hours ago.
[/quote]I guess my point is (assuming we’re talking about the same vulnerability) … this was brought up before/during the first attack. I assumed it was addressed then.
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“22357” timestamp=“1374290320”]
[quote author=Justabitoftime link=topic=2876.msg22349#msg22349 date=1374287833]
We’re making sure we hit even the little guys… digging for any/every pool and verifying it actually was applied. This was posted hours ago.
[/quote]I guess my point is (assuming we’re talking about the same vulnerability) … this was brought up before/during the first attack. I assumed it was addressed then.
[/quote]I have no control over what pools implement. This was a Stratum issue, Coinotron notified us how they resolved it and we got our teams to spread it out. This affected more than our coin, thankfully ‘some’ good came out of it.
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[quote name=“Justabitoftime” post=“22358” timestamp=“1374291136”]
I have no control over what pools implement.
[/quote]I know. I’m not pointing fingers at you or feathercoin. Just wondering why on earth the pools would not be aware of this (on their own even) and address it long ago. Then again, I don’t run a pool.
[quote author=Justabitoftime link=topic=2876.msg22358#msg22358 date=1374291136]
This was a Stratum issue
[/quote]Yep, has been for quite some time and everyone (I thought) was well aware of it. Hence my confusion as to why/how the same exploit is being abused at this time (if that is the case). Just curious, that’s all.
[quote author=Justabitoftime link=topic=2876.msg22358#msg22358 date=1374291136]
Coinotron notified us how they resolved it and we got our teams to spread it out.
[/quote]As they did the last time (and the first time) this happened (from my recollection).
[quote author=Justabitoftime link=topic=2876.msg22358#msg22358 date=1374291136]
This affected more than our coin, thankfully ‘some’ good came out of it.
[/quote]Yep, it affected Litecoin first. The vulnerability was posted (before the attack even I believe) and LTC pools addressed it after the attack. Then the vulnerability was brought up here and then FTC was attacked (or vice versa but I think it was brought up first) and all of the above was said (by others) at that time after the attack.
Due to the above, I was under the assumption this was a well known vulnerability (I think that’s established; but again assuming the same vulnerability was used) that was addressed by FTC pools so this would not happen again. I was wrong.
So … [i]Tuck is disappoint[/i] (in this revelation). :-\
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I hear you. For a 3 month old volunteer based coin, we still have HUGE areas of opportunity in terms of communication in and out of our community. I believe the new structure will certainly help… the minute it was reported, Director of Mining and Manager of Pools immediately took care of business. As we move forward, we should see more accountability.