Quote from: msm595 on July 31, 2013, 08:17:42 PM

You had erroneously assumed that hypernova had moved back to CPPSRB when in fact it was only a plan to move back... The pool was/is still PPS. That is why money was lost.

What?

Quote from: M0nsieurChat on July 30, 2013, 09:34:08 AM

[..] We've heard your feedbacks and did a rollback this morning (11AM GMT+1) to CPPSRB with 1% fee.
We learnt from our mistake and won't change the reward system again as it seems CPPSRB is the only one people like !

Enjoy the most stable pool ever !

Soak and M0nsieurChat

Hypernova was definitely supposed to be on a CPPSRB system when this supposedly happened. And if it was on PPS, then the pool developers/owners should take personable responsibility for all balances, because that's how PPS works... Either way, this is a huge error that points to multiple problems in the handling of this pool and its software.

Quote from: notifications@hypernova.pw date=1375297920

Dear all,
Today we scheduled a maintenance that went bad on Hypernova.
The purpose of this maintenance was to push the new litecoin daemon in its new version 0.8.3.7.
As you may be aware, this new branch of litecoin needs to resync the whole blockchain.
During the blockchain syncing, the network difficulty dropped to something like 0.XXXX and the PPS rate skyrocketed.
Those who were mining during that upgrade within that 2 minutes timeframe experienced a WAY too high balance (we're talking about thousands of LTCs)
The auto withdraw threshold feature perfectly worked. Here is how you empty a pool wallet in seconds.
I'm very sorry about your loss. I decide to stop the Hypernova's adventures here.
If the coins (or part of the coins) are returned by those who received the withdraws, I'll be happy to refund those who ask me in PM or at feedback@hypernova.pw (please tag your subject with [refund] as you guess I'll have many mails within the next days)

If you see that Hypernova sent you too many coins, could you please send them back to LgDKkDSmjCmgEwkNZH5TXSnhd2aKbDFzzr so there will be less people screwed ?
Thanks for mining on our pool and sorry again.. Human mistake.

There are either multiple serious bugs at work here, or this is deception and fraud. Either way, this is very strong evidence that M0nsieurChat and Soak do not have the knowledge required to be running a mining pool.

Funds should be returned to balances, and withdrawals frozen until this is worked out. If that does not happen very quickly, we all may as well be sending our hashes to notroll.in.

Keep in mind that the funds that went missing could very well be to M0nsieurChat and/or Soak's own accounts. Sure there were a bunch of transfers across 3 blocks... what's it to the admins to have multiple accounts in preparation for testing, or with a plan to be devious in the future?

M0nsieurChat: Was this a PPS pool or a CPPSRB pool? If it was a CPPSRB pool, how did balances inflate beyond what could be paid?