Please consistently use the same temperature unit.  Please do not mix F and C.  Thank you for your cooperation.

What's wrong.  Is following the "C" or the "F" after each number confusing you?  We did not mix them, we stated each time what was celsius (C) and what was fahrenheit (F).  

Ok, back to topic, what about the NMC payouts?

Just kidding.  

In seven years, two months and three days, we all will be swamped with NMC. WE WILL BE RICH!

It is and has been ongoing for a while... I think 3 weeks now.

I've put some scripts in place to protect the web server a bit more and it is helping.

This weekend I will be working on a major overhaul to Eligius's back end which should help with any remaining pool side stability problems caused by these DDoS attacks.

If I have time I will try to do the same to the stats, and try to finish the remaining code needed to re-enabled namecoin payouts and do namecoin backpay.

Unfortunately I've been extremely busy all around with non-Eligius items, and the time I have been putting into Eligius has been DDoS mitigation

So, better times to come.

Some important notes:

High hash rate miners (I'll start with 10Th/sec+): Please send me a private message, email (forum name at gmail), submit a support ticket, or message me on freenode IRC with a signed message from your mining address requesting private server access if you desire it.  I plan on having a private node setup (beyond the current automated stuff) this weekend for top miners to use exclusively.  This node will have higher work difficulties and other settings best for high hash rate miners.  Will be a trial run, and we'll take it from there.  I assume all will go well though.  This server will function with the rest of the pool normally and you won't notice any difference besides potentially improved stability.  Stats and everything else remain the same.  I will say that you must be mining on Eligius at 10Th+ for at least 24 hours to qualify.

Next, this weekend the "KnC port" (12234) will be redirected to the general stratum mining port (3334).  Anyone still using port 12234 will still be able to for now, but please switch back to 3334.  The firmware issues seem to have been resolved by KnC, so, just upgrade your miners and you should be fine on the main pool.  This will prevent the KnC port failsafes (blocks that pay the cold wallet 1ChANGe address) and help the payout queue stay shorter longer (less manual payouts).

Thanks!

It's going to be a pretty nice weekend, and I'll be inside working on the pool, so... *queue death stares from g/f* 

-wk

I, too, have several addresses that I moved my miners from well over 10-days ago from that have been saying "a manual payout no sooner than a few seconds from now." for going onto a week.

I, too, happen to be one of the douche-bags that's more than a little curious about the NMC backlog...

I'm also growing more than a little frustrated that everytime my miners hit the payout queue, my payouts are stuck behind 12, 20, 40+ block delays...

I don't doubt that, and I'm sure that everyone's mileage varies; however, almost everyone of my payouts over the last month has been delayed.

My last one was only about 6 blocks delayed, but I'm currently in the queue again now for a small payout and I'm *finally* only 12-blocks back--this one started out yesterday sometime at around 26-blocks back. The record I recall seeing on one of my addresses was a 54-block delay.

All said, I'm actually quite patient and I don't *need* the BTC; however, on top of everything else that's been going on, I just see hiccups everywhere. This causes me concern.

Luke-JR's most recent post a few minutes ago does give me some solace that WK didn't take a stiletto to the grill, but the wrinkles in the pool are proving a little less than comforting, atm.