Bitcoin pools under attack (DDOS)

BCLogoSeveral bitcoin mining pools are reported to be under attack from an unknown source. The affected pools are under a heavey DDOS(Denial-of-service attack) causing unusually high loads on their pool servers and shares are being lost.

It was first brought to my attention this morning when several of my …

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KnCMiner drop their prices

kncminerlogo300x100In their latest news letter KnCMiner has responded to the increasing difficulty and new products being announced by their competitors by dropping the price on their core line of miners.

They have discontinued the Mercury 100 GH/s line of miners all together leaving only the Jupiter 400 GH/s …

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MinePeon gets its own Support Forums

MinePeonLogoLately the amount of inquirers/requests/suggestions that MinePeon is generating via forums/emails/PMs/IMs has grown to such a level that I have absolutely no hope to keep up with them all (and that annoys me, I feel everyone deserves an answer).

To that end, I have decided …

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MinePeon 0.2.3 release

Update time again!

There are so many changes underneath the hood that the change log is huge (see below for the full details).  You don't need to re image, but if you don't your going to be missing out on quite a few improvements, some of which cannot be distributed …

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MinePeon 0.2.2 release

Download it HERE.

I was not planning a release today but a user has come across a serious bug.  It seems when switching pools on BitcoinTalk user klotzenhotz's miner hang instead of completing the operation and ended up mining for the wrong account (the donation one, I am so embarrassed …

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