That's only superstition. Besides, bitcoind wasn't restarted.

Sorry for the instability issues right now. I've found two weaknesses that can cause very high CPU and memory usage on the server when ddos attackers are pounding it the way they are lately. I'm working on fixing both now and will deploy the fixes ASAP. That means you'll be disconnected one more time for the update, without a maintenance time announced ahead of time, but this has to go in quickly to make the service more stable.

More to follow as the fix is deployed.

Well... that explains why my hash rate has dropped today and I have had connection issues off and on.  Thanks for keeping us up to date.  Very new to BitMinter and bitcoin in general.  After trying to configure GUIminer for another pool unsuccessfully I found your site and was up and running in a few minutes!  Thanks, absolutely love it!  So far I think you are awesome!  Now I just need more power!  Wish I had found you 3 years ago when I first started looking at bitcoin.  I had a 5970 ready to go, but I get Cluster Headaches (Think day long migraine packed into 30 minutes to 2 hours and repeat up to 10 times a day.  clusterheadaches.com if you are curious) and they ramped up about then and I was good for nothing for a long time.  They have finally slowed down and now I'm trying to get up and running and wishing I had plowed through the pain and done it years ago.

Thanks again for a great service!

Korxax

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Bitcon -- cash for the 21st century!

Looking for donations for a poor disabled guy to get a mining rig.  Long sad story that boils down to Cluster headaches- think a day long migraine packed into a half hour to 2 hours and repeat up to 10 times a day.  And my insurance company screwed me over to the tune of $50k when I had a plumbing problem flood my house, destroyed tons of my stuff including several computers.  Total loss, about $50k  Beware the red umbrella.  Any little bit of help is greatly appreciated.  I have fairly low power rates... so if you have an old miner that you want to donate I would be very grateful.  Contact me and I'll get you an address.
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Not for me apparently... just started timing out on connection:

Working again now

Down again...

Hi again,

My system just popped up a "Bad Credentials" warning and shows my log in screen but it won't let me log in.  My wife's computer is still mining just fine on the same account.  I've seen that message pop up on her machine a few times in the last few days but it's always worked again as soon as I hit the "proceed" button.  That isn't working for me.  Any ideas? 

I'm up to .00025 BTC!    Been mining a little over a week now.  So if bitcoin goes to $1 million I'll have 250 bucks!  Damn I wish I had started 3 years ago when I started looking into it.  Stupid headaches melting my brain.


Korxax


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Bitcoin -- cash for the 21st century!

Looking for donations for a poor disabled guy to get a real mining rig.  Long sad story that boils down to Cluster headaches- think a day long migraine packed into a half hour to 2 hours and repeat up to 10 times a day.  And my insurance company screwed me over when I had a plumbing problem flood my house, destroyed tons of my stuff including several computers.  Total loss, about $50k  Beware the red umbrella.  Any little bit of help is greatly appreciated.  I have fairly low power rates... so if you have an old miner that you want to donate I would be very grateful.  Contact me and I'll get you an address.
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Are you using F-Secure antivirus? It likes to block access to the mining server and causes that to happen. You'll need to whitelist the app/pool with F-Secure for it to work reliably.

Oh, and my log in on bitminter is Korxax too if that helps you track down what's going on.  I gave each machine a worker name, but haven't set up workers on the site yet.  Kestral is my main machine that had the most recent problem, it has a 6970 in it. Eagle is my wife's machine it has a NVidia 560ti special edition with 448 cores.  And loon is a Machine my Brother in law used to use and left here for when we play multi-player games together, it has a 5970 in it.  Don't know if any of that helps, but worth a shot.

Korxax

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Bitcoin -- cash for the 21st century!

Looking for donations for a poor disabled guy to get a mining rig.  Long sad story that boils down to Cluster headaches- think a day long migraine packed into a half hour to 2 hours and repeat up to 10 times a day.  And my insurance company screwed me over when I had a plumbing problem flood my house, destroyed tons of my stuff including several computers.  Total loss, about $50k  Beware the red umbrella.  Any little bit of help is greatly appreciated.  I have fairly low power rates... so if you have an old miner that you want to donate I would be very grateful.  Contact me and I'll get you an address.
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Your pool is down again, my Avy's just switched over to my backup pool, and my USB ASIC's have stopped mining all together.

Please investigate, thanks.