Quote from: freethrow on May 10, 2013, 06:41:33 PM

I'd post on this other thread to ask this, but can't as I'm limited to the newbie section:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186539.0

I had mined with that pool when mining FTC was worthwhile, and had 11 FTC "stuck" in there, as the pool only pays out above 20. So I set about mining again just to get up to 20. The pool found two blocks in fairly rapid succession, which would have taken me up to 31 FTC but both are now showing as invalid:
http://fc.ltcoin.net/blocks.php

Is there any way to see if this is real info, i.e. did the pool really find those blocks and they became invalid in some way, or is it just a scam to keep people mining for free in the hope of reaching 20 FTC to be able to cash out? If it's definitely a scam and I'm never going to get the FTC I have in there, obviously I'm better off doing something else with my GPU time and electricity.

I had a similar issue with the "lol just kidding you can't cash out until 20 FTC now!" thing on that same pool. I PMed the guy running it last night I believe and asked him to just pay me the balance i had on the pool, and I just got the incoming payment notice. So try that.

It's hard to call it an outright scam, when it seems to be just a terribly, terribly run pool with awful documentation. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence, I guess.