It is/was a well intended idea that bogged down on the unforeseen hurdles till it got all Spun-Out.
They are being quiet about it. This was either their intention all along, or it didn't work as they planned. Either way, it's not p2pool, and not decentralized, and Bitmain is doing a dis-service to themselves by continuing to advertise it as such.
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I agree in that it most likely didn't work as they planned. My further suspicion, in retrospect of how they've handled all projects, would be that a beancounter does a bunch of fancy geodessi-criss-cross multiplication and decides that a proposed project should take X# of man hours to complete with Y# of workers and allows for Z# revision hours. After that, the project is DONE; Regardless Even!!!
Off to the next assignment.
Anybody want to roll the dice and guess how badly they will leave MinerLink HOBBLED before moving on too S7 Development?