Quote from: HashSpike on February 10, 2017, 03:27:09 PM

SlushPool,

Hypothetically speaking here, what is to stop your pool from artificially creating workers and the hash rate associated with them. For instance, the pool has stayed at around 17,000-17,300+/- workers while the combined pool hashing power has gone up 10-20PH? Would it be possible for a pool to artificially increase their ghost workers hashing rates up by 10-20PH? Are ghost workers or artificial hash rates plausible?

I do not know anything about the backend operations of a mining pool, just generally curious? Is this something that could be done on other mining pools? I love your pool, just a little worried about the huge increase in hashing power and not an increase in workers that I would assume would come with that big of a jump.

How can I be sure a pool is not doing some shady stuff or do I just have to believe the stats from the pool?

Again, this is all hypothetical and I am just curious. Some backend pool experts school me to some knowledge please.

Thank you Gentlemen!

I can't offer any technical answer to your question but I do believe doing something like this would be a horrendous business decision, Slush has built a great brand and this kind of thing would destroy it forever. I think you could take notes on Hashrate and block frequency + block reward and figure out yourself if anything seemed off. Probably easier ways of doing it too