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Board Pools
Re: PPS, Block withholding and Rentals
by
drukyulgoods
on 11/07/2015, 20:56:53 UTC
Hi Kano,

This is an interesting topic.

I do rent hash on MRR and point it towards your pool. I rent 24TH from the same person and typically rent in 90 hour blocks with 70-80 hour breaks in between rentals. The rental is a wash $$ wise for me most of the time unless we hit a bunch of those unlucky bright red blocks. While I would tend to agree with others that it may not be worthwhile to rent in the long run but my reasons for doing so is that my 10TH rig has maxed out available power in its location. Do I spend thousands to increase TH and pay for a divorce attorney? not today....

From a renters prospective, it doesn't make sense to me to rent hundreds or thousands of TH and point it a a pool. It would make better sense to point that hundreds or thousands of rented TH and point it to ck's solo pool. (spinning the digital roulette wheel) After all, mining is essentially luck based.

To the issue at hand, as others has stated, perhaps transaction traffic analysis routines might provide some insight into the true nature of the matter. We have devices in the infrastructure at work that perform continuous on the fly traffic analysis spotting simple things like ddos attacks to more sophisticated transaction poisoning attack attempts. Basically these devices are looking for anomalies in the transaction traffic flow from the user base. How one would do this with your fine pool is beyond my scope of knowledge but it might be worthy of investigation.

Thanks for your dedicated efforts,

drukyulgoods.