Greetings Eligius Miners,
Sorry about the web server this morning. It looks like it was DoS'd earlier and my fail-over decided to fail so it never came back up until I kicked it.
I'll work on that.
As always, the web server/stats have no impact on mining/rewards/etc. So even if the site is down, everything is fine really.
On another note, there is this stupid spam/DoS attack happening against bitcoin right now where some entity is trying to fill up the blocks of miners with trash. I'll point out that Eligius is effectively filtering about 99% of this garbage, so by mining here you're helping to thwart such nonsense. I've gotten a few questions about why Eligius seems to be mining such small blocks compared to other pools, and this is why. We're not mining the spam. As of this moment it looks like Eligius is filtering something like 15-20 spam transactions per second.
I would hope more pools would be on board with keeping the block chain clean, but judging by the spam content of everyone else's blocks this doesn't seem to be the case. In reality, legitimate transaction volume is pretty normal looking.
As for a manual catch up of the payout queue, I've admittedly been slacking... a whole lot else going on with Eligius and otherwise and I just haven't had a chance to sit down and do one with all of the requisite verification, which takes a bit of time. I'm going to make it a point to try and do this sometime today/tonight as I don't want anyone having their payout delayed any more than normal.
Thanks!
-wk
