03.03.2016, 16:21
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BIG Mining Update, Founders, ClubCoin and More.
Date: March 2nd
We had another GREAT month!
BitClub Network continues to grow at a very fast pace and February was our biggest month to date. During the month we spent a lot of time doing internal upgrades, hiring new programmers and continuing to expand stuff behind the curtain in order to support what is happening in front of it.
Here is a quick summary in this update.
Hack Attempt - decentralized set up
Secure Your Account
More Mining Power
NEW Ethereum Mining Pool Coming Soon!
Founder 6 started, ClubCoin giveaway at 1:6
Withdrawal fees are LIVE
Hack Attempt - Unsuccessful!
Over the past 8 months we have been dealing with constant hack attempts. Sometimes these attacks have caused our website or mining pool to be knocked offline but most of the time we are able to mitigate them without members noticing anything at all.
Well a few weeks ago this changed. Someone launched a very strategic hack attempt on our main website and targeted different pieces of our platform which is spread out across various servers. This was not your typical DDOS attack trying to knock us offline or collect a ransom, this was a SERIOUS hack attempt!
In fact, one of the data centers we use for protection said they had NEVER experienced anything like the hack attempt we had, they only heard rumors about large scale attacks but had never hosted a website themselves that had to deal with an attack of this magnitude. (This is a data center known for protection)
The attack lasted for about 5 days and you probably noticed a little bit of downtime, slow loading, and some other things but through it all we held out ground! Without getting into any real details it was basically a war that took all of our resources and even required additional help from some security experts that were on call as the waves came in.
We estimate this organization attacking us easily spent $100,000 per day trying to get into our site. We believe this organization spent months exploring our site looking for any vulnerability they could and then launched a full out attack!
Luckily, we are constantly updating and securing our website and since our platform is spread out on many different servers everything is decentralized and hard to attack at the same time. We hide our real IP addresses and constantly change them, even moving entire servers around to keep attackers at bay.
We blacklisted tens of thousands of IP's and played a little game of hide and seek to stay online through the attempt.
If your IP address was banned during this time we apologize and recommend you open a support ticket or email us if you cannot access your account now. We can unblock them manually if they haven't already been cleared for access.
The hardest part of this attack was the sophisticated layer 7 attacks that were simulated to act just like members behavior so it hard to determine what traffic was real and what was not.
We have no idea who would spend half a million dollars trying to hack our website but clearly someone does not want to see us continue to succeed! It's too bad and while they may be gearing up for Round 2. So are we!
One thing to understand, anything is hackable! Some things are nearly impossible to hack but with the right amount of time, resources and motivation just about anything can be compromised. We hope there is not a round two and we will continue to build the strongest wall possible and have hourly back ups just in case we are compromised but for your safety make sure your account is secure!
Secure Your Account - Don't Wait!
As we get bigger we will face more and more risks! We have recently seen an increase in the number of support tickets claiming their account has been accessed without their knowledge and either Bitcoin or ClubCoin has been withdrawn to an address that is not theirs.
Please understand there is NOTHING we can do to get your Bitcoin or ClubCoin back if someone accesses your account with your password and gets in. Once the currency leaves our wallet and goes to your wallet we couldn't pull it back even if we wanted to. So it's very important that you take the security of your account seriously!
We have plans to increase the security of your account and constantly monitor for IP changes and other things but you can help by doing the following.
Make sure you have a strong password that is not easy to guess
Make sure you verify your email address (we will use this A LOT more in the future to verify actions)
Enable 2 factor through Google Authenticator - (you can do this easily under myprofile page)
*More Security Coming Soon.
Launching soon is our new SMS verify platform. You can secure your account with your phone and decide what you want to require SMS for. This can be all withdrawals, each login, any profile changes, etc.
We expect this feature to be available soon and provide another layer of security but either way don't ignore this message and increase the security on your account ASAP!
More Mining Power!
As you may have probably seen we boosted our mining power significantly this month by purchasing 14PH during the month of February. We are now expanding with both BitFury and Bitmain so we can outpace just about anyone who is not a manufacturer themselves and as you can see we have been shooting up the charts.
Our plan is to purchase about 9-10 more PH in March depending on our growth.
This currently puts our hashing power over 37 PH but as you can see we are hovering around 40 PH from other miners. At one point we said we may close the pool but we have decided to keep the pool open and charge a mining fee for anyone outside of the network who wants to continue mining with us.
Even with this fee in place our pool is very attractive for other miners because of the constant uptime and we are seeing a lot of miners use our pool as a backup pool when their pool goes offline, so rather than cut it off we want to help serve the long term needs of the entire bitcoin ecosystem by keeping it open. Win-Win for everyone!
You will also see a very nice uptick in the daily mining earnings once this current period expires because the last week has been our best by far. We are hitting a lot of blocks at a difficulty level that is currently off the charts! The last few days alone we have been averaging around 10 blocks per day, which at today's BTC price is well over $100k per day
NEW Ethereum Mining Pool
We have been working on a secret project for the past few months and we are ready to let you in on it!
If you have not yet heard of Ethereum yet we strongly suggest you check it out because many experts believe it has the potential to be just as big (if not bigger) than Bitcoin itself.
What is Ethereum?
To put it simply Ethereum is the Blockchain of ALL things. Bitcoin is used mainly for financial reasons and in our opinion it will always be the king blockchain!
However, Ethereum is a much broader blockchain that is starting to become very useful and is gaining a lot of momentum. Many applications can be built on top of the Ethereum blockchain (stuff like smart contracts to store agreements, property rights, medical records, and pretty much any other records you want to store using a secure blockchain).
Ethereum runs on a token much like Bitcoin that is called Ether (ETH). This token can also be mined just like Bitcoin and servers to protect and verify the network.
Right now Ethereum has a $600 Million USD market cap and it's still very early in it's adoption. In fact, it's really just for programmers and developers right now and is not intended to be user friendly yet. You must know how to use a command line interface in order to do anything with it, but the tools and user friendliness are coming very soon.
We see a HUGE opportunity right now to mine Ether and much like Bitcoin in the early days of mining, Ether can be mined using GPU's and is still small enough where anyone can get in the game.
It's a little bit harder than Bitcoin mining but with our resources, our cheap power options, and of course the biggest asset we have. YOU! We believe we can operate a very large Ethereum mining pool and provide an opportunity for all members get Ether before it really takes off!
How will this Pool work?
First of all this pool will ONLY be open to Founder Members. You must be a Founder in order to purchase a share and we are only offering 1 share per Founder position.
You also must act quickly when this launches because we are only offering 1,000 shares. Each share will be $1,000 USD that can be paid for in Bitcoin or ClubCoin (which will be ready to use in our entire invoicing system this month).
This pool will not require re-purchases like the other pools so you keep 100% of the daily profits paid out per share. There will not be any partial shares and the pool will run for as long as mining Ether is available (no set time limit).
The commissions on purchasing the pool will be paid exactly the same way as Pool 2, where all percentages are the same and everything is paid upline through the binary and level up.
Right now we are currently mining Ether on a small scale and we plan to offer the shares for sale on March 15th with the expectation of the pool starting April 1st. This pool will be LIVE on our main pool website (http://www.BitClubPool.com).
When you go to the site you will be able to see stats for Bitcoin and Ethereum. You will see mining power and see each block that is mined by our Ethereum pool. At the time of this writing Ether is worth about $8.50 USD and each new block is mined in about 10-15 seconds.
PLEASE NOTE: Just like our Bitcoin mining pools we DO NOT GUARANTEE any returns on this and it's likely even riskier than Bitcoin mining. The Ethereum project could go under and Ether could be worth $0.00 USD in the next year, or it could be worth $50, $100 or more. We have no idea and will never set any ROI for this, we strongly suggest you understand these risks and do your own research on Ethereum mining before considering to purchase a share.
*If this first round goes well and we see good results from the pool we may open it up for another 1,000 shares or more, but the earliest we would consider doing this would be May so if you are interested make sure you pay attention to these next few updates and be ready to purchase on March 15th!
**Also, If you are a Master Builder you do not need to purchase a share of this pool because we are going to give you one share FREE! This goes for anyone who is at the rank of Master Builder or higher by March 15th.
We have a lot more details coming soon on this but just wanted to give you a heads up about it so you had time to check out Ethereum before it goes live
Oh and if you have a Bittrex account already set up just go under the Wallets tab and do a search for ETH symbol. You will see a + sign where you can generate an ETH address and this is what you will use to be paid on. You will earn Ether directly as we mine it, we will not convert it to Bitcoin.
Founder 6 LIVE and ClubCoin Bonuses Drop.
On March 1st we started Founder 6 which is another drop in the ClubCoin bonus going down from 1,500 to 1,000 ClubCoin for anyone who becomes a Founder. Founders are anyone who purchases at least 1 share in each of the 3 mining pools.
You do not have to purchase the founder pack in order to be a founder, you can purchase each pool individually over time to earn your Founder status.
We have also dropped the ratio of ClubCoin being offered from 1:5 to 1:6. This means for every $6 USD spent you will earn 1 ClubCoin. As we mentioned this will continue to drop each month until the end of the year when the ClubCoin bonus will be completely gone and all coins will have been distributed.
Please make a note of these two changes and pass them along to your team. We had many people over the past two days thinking they were shorted ClubCoin but we have made it very clear it will continue to drop on a monthly basis.
Withdrawal Fee is LIVE.
If you have made a withdrawal lately you have seen we are now charging .002 Bitcoin for all withdrawal requests that are under 2.0 Bitcoin. This fee will stay fixed for right now but if the price of Bitcoin goes up we will decrease the fee to keep it reasonable. Ultimately you can avoid this fee by waiting until you have over 2 Bitcoin in your wallet before making a withdrawal.
That's all for now. As you can see we have some really exciting stuff happening and there was even more we wanted to include in this update but it's already pretty long so we will save the next few things for the next update which will be next week!
Keep up the great work everyone, we are so excited right now we can hardly sleep and we rarely do anyway. We hope you are happy with your BitClub Network membership, we truly feel like we are just getting started!
Sincerely,
-BCN Support Team
Das wichtigste kurz zusammengefasst:
- Die in meinem letzten Auszahlungsbeitrag schon erwähnte Auszahlungsgebühr fällt nun an
(0.002 BTC für Auszahlungen unter 2 BTC)
- Der Mining Pool wächst immer weiter, in kürze wird er eine Rechenleistung von 40 PH/s haben
- ClubCoin Updates
Für das Founder Paket gibt es nun nur mehr 1000 ClubCoins.
Auch gibt es jetzt nurmehr 1 Clubcoin für jeden 6. $, der auf BCN ausgegeben wird (vorher für jeden 5. $).
Im Laufe des Monats werden sämtliche Käufe auf der BCN Homepage auch mit ClubCoin bezahlbar sein.
Nach dem Höhenflug Anfang Februar hat sich der Wert für 1 CC wieder auf ca. 0.3$ eingependelt.
- Ab ca. Mitte März wird es einen zusätzlichen Ethereum Mining Pool geben (wie mein Vorposter bereits erwähnte)
Dieser steht nur für Founder offen und kostet einmalig 1000$ (bezahlbar wieder in BTC oder dann auch schon in CC).
Für diesen Pool wird es nur 1000 Anteile geben (limitiert) und es gibt kein Re-Purchase, sämtliche Erträge können also sofort ausbezahlt werden.
Ethereum ist eine relativ "neue" Kryptowährung, deren Entwicklung vor allem durch Microsoft vorangetrieben wird.
Das besondere an dieser Währung ist, dass die Blockchain um sogenannte "Contracts" erweitert werden kann. Man kann also Verträge (zB automatische Transaktionen) automatisch und sicher über die Blockchain ablaufen lassen.
Der Wert vervielfachte sich seit der Einführung mehrmals und aktuell ist die Währung wieder in einem weiteren Höhenflug und kratzt an der 10$ Marke. Es ist schon lange die zweitgrößte Cryptowährung nach Bitcoin.
Der Herr in diesem Video erklärt Ethereum relativ gut (ist ein englisches Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEJKLFH8q5c
Ich habe auch vor, einen Beitrag über Ethereum hier im Forum in der Crypto-Currencies Sektion zu erstellen (auch, um diese Sektion wieder ein bisschen zu beleben) aber hatte bisher noch keine Zeit dafür. Ich habs mir aber für die nächsten Tage schon vorgenommen.
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Externer Inhalt (z.B. Newsletter, E-Mails, Seiteninhalte):Date: March 2nd
We had another GREAT month!
BitClub Network continues to grow at a very fast pace and February was our biggest month to date. During the month we spent a lot of time doing internal upgrades, hiring new programmers and continuing to expand stuff behind the curtain in order to support what is happening in front of it.
Here is a quick summary in this update.
Hack Attempt - decentralized set up
Secure Your Account
More Mining Power
NEW Ethereum Mining Pool Coming Soon!
Founder 6 started, ClubCoin giveaway at 1:6
Withdrawal fees are LIVE
Hack Attempt - Unsuccessful!
Over the past 8 months we have been dealing with constant hack attempts. Sometimes these attacks have caused our website or mining pool to be knocked offline but most of the time we are able to mitigate them without members noticing anything at all.
Well a few weeks ago this changed. Someone launched a very strategic hack attempt on our main website and targeted different pieces of our platform which is spread out across various servers. This was not your typical DDOS attack trying to knock us offline or collect a ransom, this was a SERIOUS hack attempt!
In fact, one of the data centers we use for protection said they had NEVER experienced anything like the hack attempt we had, they only heard rumors about large scale attacks but had never hosted a website themselves that had to deal with an attack of this magnitude. (This is a data center known for protection)
The attack lasted for about 5 days and you probably noticed a little bit of downtime, slow loading, and some other things but through it all we held out ground! Without getting into any real details it was basically a war that took all of our resources and even required additional help from some security experts that were on call as the waves came in.
We estimate this organization attacking us easily spent $100,000 per day trying to get into our site. We believe this organization spent months exploring our site looking for any vulnerability they could and then launched a full out attack!
Luckily, we are constantly updating and securing our website and since our platform is spread out on many different servers everything is decentralized and hard to attack at the same time. We hide our real IP addresses and constantly change them, even moving entire servers around to keep attackers at bay.
We blacklisted tens of thousands of IP's and played a little game of hide and seek to stay online through the attempt.
If your IP address was banned during this time we apologize and recommend you open a support ticket or email us if you cannot access your account now. We can unblock them manually if they haven't already been cleared for access.
The hardest part of this attack was the sophisticated layer 7 attacks that were simulated to act just like members behavior so it hard to determine what traffic was real and what was not.
We have no idea who would spend half a million dollars trying to hack our website but clearly someone does not want to see us continue to succeed! It's too bad and while they may be gearing up for Round 2. So are we!
One thing to understand, anything is hackable! Some things are nearly impossible to hack but with the right amount of time, resources and motivation just about anything can be compromised. We hope there is not a round two and we will continue to build the strongest wall possible and have hourly back ups just in case we are compromised but for your safety make sure your account is secure!
Secure Your Account - Don't Wait!
As we get bigger we will face more and more risks! We have recently seen an increase in the number of support tickets claiming their account has been accessed without their knowledge and either Bitcoin or ClubCoin has been withdrawn to an address that is not theirs.
Please understand there is NOTHING we can do to get your Bitcoin or ClubCoin back if someone accesses your account with your password and gets in. Once the currency leaves our wallet and goes to your wallet we couldn't pull it back even if we wanted to. So it's very important that you take the security of your account seriously!
We have plans to increase the security of your account and constantly monitor for IP changes and other things but you can help by doing the following.
Make sure you have a strong password that is not easy to guess
Make sure you verify your email address (we will use this A LOT more in the future to verify actions)
Enable 2 factor through Google Authenticator - (you can do this easily under myprofile page)
*More Security Coming Soon.
Launching soon is our new SMS verify platform. You can secure your account with your phone and decide what you want to require SMS for. This can be all withdrawals, each login, any profile changes, etc.
We expect this feature to be available soon and provide another layer of security but either way don't ignore this message and increase the security on your account ASAP!
More Mining Power!
As you may have probably seen we boosted our mining power significantly this month by purchasing 14PH during the month of February. We are now expanding with both BitFury and Bitmain so we can outpace just about anyone who is not a manufacturer themselves and as you can see we have been shooting up the charts.
Our plan is to purchase about 9-10 more PH in March depending on our growth.
This currently puts our hashing power over 37 PH but as you can see we are hovering around 40 PH from other miners. At one point we said we may close the pool but we have decided to keep the pool open and charge a mining fee for anyone outside of the network who wants to continue mining with us.
Even with this fee in place our pool is very attractive for other miners because of the constant uptime and we are seeing a lot of miners use our pool as a backup pool when their pool goes offline, so rather than cut it off we want to help serve the long term needs of the entire bitcoin ecosystem by keeping it open. Win-Win for everyone!
You will also see a very nice uptick in the daily mining earnings once this current period expires because the last week has been our best by far. We are hitting a lot of blocks at a difficulty level that is currently off the charts! The last few days alone we have been averaging around 10 blocks per day, which at today's BTC price is well over $100k per day
NEW Ethereum Mining Pool
We have been working on a secret project for the past few months and we are ready to let you in on it!
If you have not yet heard of Ethereum yet we strongly suggest you check it out because many experts believe it has the potential to be just as big (if not bigger) than Bitcoin itself.
What is Ethereum?
To put it simply Ethereum is the Blockchain of ALL things. Bitcoin is used mainly for financial reasons and in our opinion it will always be the king blockchain!
However, Ethereum is a much broader blockchain that is starting to become very useful and is gaining a lot of momentum. Many applications can be built on top of the Ethereum blockchain (stuff like smart contracts to store agreements, property rights, medical records, and pretty much any other records you want to store using a secure blockchain).
Ethereum runs on a token much like Bitcoin that is called Ether (ETH). This token can also be mined just like Bitcoin and servers to protect and verify the network.
Right now Ethereum has a $600 Million USD market cap and it's still very early in it's adoption. In fact, it's really just for programmers and developers right now and is not intended to be user friendly yet. You must know how to use a command line interface in order to do anything with it, but the tools and user friendliness are coming very soon.
We see a HUGE opportunity right now to mine Ether and much like Bitcoin in the early days of mining, Ether can be mined using GPU's and is still small enough where anyone can get in the game.
It's a little bit harder than Bitcoin mining but with our resources, our cheap power options, and of course the biggest asset we have. YOU! We believe we can operate a very large Ethereum mining pool and provide an opportunity for all members get Ether before it really takes off!
How will this Pool work?
First of all this pool will ONLY be open to Founder Members. You must be a Founder in order to purchase a share and we are only offering 1 share per Founder position.
You also must act quickly when this launches because we are only offering 1,000 shares. Each share will be $1,000 USD that can be paid for in Bitcoin or ClubCoin (which will be ready to use in our entire invoicing system this month).
This pool will not require re-purchases like the other pools so you keep 100% of the daily profits paid out per share. There will not be any partial shares and the pool will run for as long as mining Ether is available (no set time limit).
The commissions on purchasing the pool will be paid exactly the same way as Pool 2, where all percentages are the same and everything is paid upline through the binary and level up.
Right now we are currently mining Ether on a small scale and we plan to offer the shares for sale on March 15th with the expectation of the pool starting April 1st. This pool will be LIVE on our main pool website (http://www.BitClubPool.com).
When you go to the site you will be able to see stats for Bitcoin and Ethereum. You will see mining power and see each block that is mined by our Ethereum pool. At the time of this writing Ether is worth about $8.50 USD and each new block is mined in about 10-15 seconds.
PLEASE NOTE: Just like our Bitcoin mining pools we DO NOT GUARANTEE any returns on this and it's likely even riskier than Bitcoin mining. The Ethereum project could go under and Ether could be worth $0.00 USD in the next year, or it could be worth $50, $100 or more. We have no idea and will never set any ROI for this, we strongly suggest you understand these risks and do your own research on Ethereum mining before considering to purchase a share.
*If this first round goes well and we see good results from the pool we may open it up for another 1,000 shares or more, but the earliest we would consider doing this would be May so if you are interested make sure you pay attention to these next few updates and be ready to purchase on March 15th!
**Also, If you are a Master Builder you do not need to purchase a share of this pool because we are going to give you one share FREE! This goes for anyone who is at the rank of Master Builder or higher by March 15th.
We have a lot more details coming soon on this but just wanted to give you a heads up about it so you had time to check out Ethereum before it goes live
Oh and if you have a Bittrex account already set up just go under the Wallets tab and do a search for ETH symbol. You will see a + sign where you can generate an ETH address and this is what you will use to be paid on. You will earn Ether directly as we mine it, we will not convert it to Bitcoin.
Founder 6 LIVE and ClubCoin Bonuses Drop.
On March 1st we started Founder 6 which is another drop in the ClubCoin bonus going down from 1,500 to 1,000 ClubCoin for anyone who becomes a Founder. Founders are anyone who purchases at least 1 share in each of the 3 mining pools.
You do not have to purchase the founder pack in order to be a founder, you can purchase each pool individually over time to earn your Founder status.
We have also dropped the ratio of ClubCoin being offered from 1:5 to 1:6. This means for every $6 USD spent you will earn 1 ClubCoin. As we mentioned this will continue to drop each month until the end of the year when the ClubCoin bonus will be completely gone and all coins will have been distributed.
Please make a note of these two changes and pass them along to your team. We had many people over the past two days thinking they were shorted ClubCoin but we have made it very clear it will continue to drop on a monthly basis.
Withdrawal Fee is LIVE.
If you have made a withdrawal lately you have seen we are now charging .002 Bitcoin for all withdrawal requests that are under 2.0 Bitcoin. This fee will stay fixed for right now but if the price of Bitcoin goes up we will decrease the fee to keep it reasonable. Ultimately you can avoid this fee by waiting until you have over 2 Bitcoin in your wallet before making a withdrawal.
That's all for now. As you can see we have some really exciting stuff happening and there was even more we wanted to include in this update but it's already pretty long so we will save the next few things for the next update which will be next week!
Keep up the great work everyone, we are so excited right now we can hardly sleep and we rarely do anyway. We hope you are happy with your BitClub Network membership, we truly feel like we are just getting started!
Sincerely,
-BCN Support Team
Das wichtigste kurz zusammengefasst:
- Die in meinem letzten Auszahlungsbeitrag schon erwähnte Auszahlungsgebühr fällt nun an
(0.002 BTC für Auszahlungen unter 2 BTC)
- Der Mining Pool wächst immer weiter, in kürze wird er eine Rechenleistung von 40 PH/s haben
- ClubCoin Updates
Für das Founder Paket gibt es nun nur mehr 1000 ClubCoins.
Auch gibt es jetzt nurmehr 1 Clubcoin für jeden 6. $, der auf BCN ausgegeben wird (vorher für jeden 5. $).
Im Laufe des Monats werden sämtliche Käufe auf der BCN Homepage auch mit ClubCoin bezahlbar sein.
Nach dem Höhenflug Anfang Februar hat sich der Wert für 1 CC wieder auf ca. 0.3$ eingependelt.
- Ab ca. Mitte März wird es einen zusätzlichen Ethereum Mining Pool geben (wie mein Vorposter bereits erwähnte)
Dieser steht nur für Founder offen und kostet einmalig 1000$ (bezahlbar wieder in BTC oder dann auch schon in CC).
Für diesen Pool wird es nur 1000 Anteile geben (limitiert) und es gibt kein Re-Purchase, sämtliche Erträge können also sofort ausbezahlt werden.
Ethereum ist eine relativ "neue" Kryptowährung, deren Entwicklung vor allem durch Microsoft vorangetrieben wird.
Das besondere an dieser Währung ist, dass die Blockchain um sogenannte "Contracts" erweitert werden kann. Man kann also Verträge (zB automatische Transaktionen) automatisch und sicher über die Blockchain ablaufen lassen.
Der Wert vervielfachte sich seit der Einführung mehrmals und aktuell ist die Währung wieder in einem weiteren Höhenflug und kratzt an der 10$ Marke. Es ist schon lange die zweitgrößte Cryptowährung nach Bitcoin.
Der Herr in diesem Video erklärt Ethereum relativ gut (ist ein englisches Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEJKLFH8q5c
Ich habe auch vor, einen Beitrag über Ethereum hier im Forum in der Crypto-Currencies Sektion zu erstellen (auch, um diese Sektion wieder ein bisschen zu beleben) aber hatte bisher noch keine Zeit dafür. Ich habs mir aber für die nächsten Tage schon vorgenommen.
