Quote from: ckolivas on February 07, 2015, 07:39:11 AM

Of relevance to p2pool from the antpool thread

Quote from: ckolivas on February 07, 2015, 04:01:55 AM

I have finally had a skype text chat with the main Chinese Bitmain software engineers and unfortunately it's precisely as I predicted. In principle they wanted to help decentralise and saw p2pool as the obvious way to get involved and would be good publicity for them. Unfortunately they spent a lot of time fixing their regular pool first and just left this announcement up almost as a "preorder for a better p2pool". However they misunderstood the issues with p2pool and thought that all it needed was more coding expertise and manpower contributed to development to fix it and have only just started investigating it now. While they can clearly improve on the existing code - and probably will unless the project gets canned - after I queried them about what solutions they had for the intrinsic p2pool protocol limitations/problems, they had precisely zero valid solutions for them.

Thanks for posting this clarification ck

I don't suppose they said anything about changing their misleading topic header or posting an official announcement to confirm that they have failed to fulfil their promise to p2pool users? It's a shame, but having read through the first few pages of their "p2pool" thread just now, many of their statements are deceptive at best - it needs to be clarified once & for all so that noobs don't get fooled into using the pool in the belief that they are helping the p2pool network & decentralise Bitcoin.

Peace