Quote from: Hippie Tech on November 04, 2016, 07:29:26 AM

Quote from: Bitskint on October 22, 2016, 08:35:30 PM

Weird user on over last few days -- constantly switching from mining Mazacoin and I do not know what.
Not sure if he is mining elsewhere on pool or just in out in out shake it all about ... hmmmm

refresh and he is top -- refresh and he is gone -- refresh and he is back at top ?

Strange because we all know when you add to pool it takes a while for your hashes to show...
this guy seems to be top then gone -- then back again

while everyone else seems to -- be normal.

Maybe his home farm is set to flick backwards and forward between pool or something --or he is throwing bits of time between pools that
are mining same coin so he gets some shares in on each.

Whatever he is up to seems to be having a effect on users on this pool , mind the others -- difficulty seems to vary greatly along with users habits.

User is 138466.

//edit

just caught him disappearing -- ( was still registering some )

1 VitaNet 11215019
2 138466 6567749 <----------- HIM at 22:42

when at top ------> 15500000 ish ---

obviously 0 when gone

1- Why is anyone still mining for this scammer !?

2- He/ then are likely using one of many mining/ stratum exploits.

Some people do use miner control to profit switch between pools, but I don't know if that explains what you are seeing.

Any reasons for the scammer assertion Hippie Tech?

I used to use this pool, before moving to zpool. I don't use the latter now since the owner decided to lock his thread rather than provide an explanation why people thought they where getting short changed.

No need to use a stratum exploit if you are a pool owner, you just need to insert some share contributions for yourself in the database.

When I did use this pool, the reported pool rate was more often on the lower side than the higher side of that reported by my miner.

But the merge mining was good compared to one of the previous pools I used, give-me-coins.

I'm not sure I would like to use a pool now unless they state a 10% fee. Simple economics makes me wonder how they afford to run their pools on the stated fee. I do wonder if the majority of small pools are up to some trick or another.