* Avalon stated the would not premine, would not mine with clients equipment and would test (burnin) on testnet. Unfortunately this turned out to be a blatant lie.
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To be fair:
My Batch #2 Avalon had three pools configured by default with FAILOVER configured. The first two pools appeared to be the internal testnet pools. The third pool was this eligius pool.
Based on the flat line from 2nd June - 10 July its not like "they ran these for a month".
I don't understand any reason why they should throw away perfectly good hashes. What is the objection if the test is on a live pool, especially if we can all see it? We know that the machines work, and that a lot of them existed last weekend (10 days ago).