Dogehouse.org was hit with a much bigger-than-usual DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on Wednesday, creating 12 hours of downtime, the popular dogecoin pool mining site said Thursday. It means you can’t mine on the site so if you still want to get Dogecoin then you still can, find out more on how to do that here.

In an update posted on its site, Dogehouse said the constantly growing attack was so intense that it could not “mitigate it easily.”

“We usually get 2-3 DDoS attacks per day, but not that big. They usually reach up to 50 or 75gbits tops,” Dogehouse said. “The attack was constantly growing so our upstreams had no other choice but to null routeb (blackhole) us as soon as it reached more than 150gbits.”

The full process took more than 6 hours, but “the total downtime of the stratums and the pool was over 12 hours,” the site said.

In a DDoS, the incoming traffic flooding the target originates from many different sources – possibly hundreds of thousands or more. They must have been using some fantastic route monitoring to ensure that their system isn’t overloaded. This essentially makes it impossible to stop the attack simply by blocking IP addresses.

Throughout the downtime Wednesday, dogecoiners on Reddit speculated Dogehouse could have been it with the rumored “51% attack” pool hash share, a status which in theory can seriously disrupt on an entire bitcoin or other cryptocurrency network.

Most dogecoin miners, however, guessed it was a DDoS attack.

Here is Dogehouse’s full update: