Quote from: Lone Shark on May 27, 2017, 02:32:12 AM

Quote from: DarkStar_ on May 27, 2017, 01:47:24 AM

Quote from: Lone Shark on May 27, 2017, 12:04:00 AM

Awesome, thanks for the vouch.

Seems like he inserted it Antpool based on the tx he accelerated. Not sure if Antpool was offering this service and OP is just a reseller but still, I think it's legit. Though $12 seems a bit steep, but this is some kind of cure if you happen to make a mistake when putting fees. Like in real life, cures are expensive than prevention.

IIRC AntPool used to offer an acceleration service to miners on their pool, but stopped. My guess is that OP pushes the transaction through BTC.com's accelerator, and basically is using this to convert money from a credit card into Bitcoin. BTC.com is owned by Bitmain, which owns AntPool, so that is the most likely answer in my opinion.

I just also realized this. Since I did a research on how this could have been done without real connections with antpool and other big miners. BTC.com has really steep charges on per transaction, much higher that what OP is charging. I tried to check a transaction with 250sat/b, it cost around $35 to accelerate.

I guess, OP might be using this, no guarantee what it is though. He might be or not, using carded credit cards acquired fraudulently and using it to pay BTC.com. But, we'll never know unless someone has access to BTC.com and can confirm that the transaction I had was pushed using their service.

The fact that he's basing the rates off btc.com makes your proposition seem very likely. I remember favours also offering to accelerate transactions for 0.006 BTC just a few days back, and i assume that he probably also uses carded cc's to achieve this.

It is very unlikely that OP actually has connections to a mining pool. His story doesn't make sense to me. If you have connections to a mining pool why do you still have to resort to earning a couple of bucks an hour by begging the admins to insert a certain transaction into their mining pool? And why is he on a newbie account? We have no proof but it's fishy af. If you don't mind having the risk of this service being provided by a criminal then go ahead and use it, but personally i wouldn't use it, even though it might seem cheap and easy and once the transaction confirms everyone's happy.