Originally you made the first mistake. It's not a bank or online wallet service. It's a mining pool only, and the possibility to store coins in the account isn't a part of officially declared functionality. Formally, you are responsible for your own funds, especially for such huge amounts. I can understand users with 1 or even 100 LTC. I apologize if these sentence offends someone, but I really can't understand why anyone would store more than 500 LTC in the 3rd party's wallet, it's just beyond of mine comprehension because I'm not crazy enough. I'm doing all of this just because I care about this issue and I feel the responsibility for this error, otherwise the pool would have been just closed 7 days ago. But you are trying my patience with using your incredible stupidity. I should note that isn't a very clever strategy, despite of my fault. Because your original mistake created too big problem for the both of us.
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May i publish some calculations? Please correct me if i'm wrong.
Total funds to be returned are ~7000 LTC, right?
For good times, pool had a network calculation speed of ~2.5GH/s, and i think that in 1-2 days after problem occured, pool still had same speed.
1% of fees are ~25 MH/s. With current difficulty, it gives to owner of pool some 25000/909=27 LTC/day. Or 800 LTC/month. To pay all stolen LTCs pool needs 9 month.
For such ocasion, i think that 2% of fees (1% for real spends and 1% to cover stolen sum) is not much to spend for a good pool.
If my calculations a true (within some error) - why you dont tell people to JUST WAIT and continue to pay them their stolen LTCs by small parts?