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Re: [ANN] MinerFarm - Virtual Mining Game for Real Bitcoin
by
Tinua
on 01/10/2015, 21:37:01 UTC
This is unfortunately not possible, because when the pool is closed then there is a responsibility occurs to pool members. And if pool members paid a fee to join to pool, then there should be a refund from the pool owner. We have to think from every different angle. Pool owner can sell his miners and quit anyway, then fee is paid to system not to pool owner.

If this "ghost-pool" have a fee of 0%, he will suck all the aviable hashrate of the system, the other pools will bleed out and nobody have to pay for it?
And as Bonus, the "ghost pool" also get randomly fresh 10Gh miners from the system.

If the pool have a "join to pool fee", and the pool go "bankrupt" then the members simply join the wrong pool and are the losers....like in real life.
But thats a one time punishment and does not affect the other pool owners or distorts the whole game.

Looks not funny for others.....especially, since we can expect more of such "ghost pools" in the future.