Quote from: moppidoo on February 19, 2018, 11:02:36 AM

With all these pools stealing huge amount from you all along for so long, I'm surprised you haven't found even an honest pool to mine on... or with all those huge stolen amount that you haven't invested in enough ASICs just to solo mine so nobody steals from you again. Why exactly are you still mining on predefined online services even?

Consensual masochism?

Why don't you run a pool yourself and monitor it 24/24 and see how fair a pool op you could be... plenty of scripts on github to start your own and give it a go.

And how would you expect Patrike to do the monitoring? Blatantly accusing every pool owners or go up to them and ask "Are you stealing this week?"

From my point of view the pool that gives the most real and verified income per day is the one that must be used. The pool administrators should be careful and monitor the coins and pool behavior 24/24 and if they take care of the best income we take care of using them, I see this as a win-win situation. Pool administrators get a lot of money form 10k miners and we are using the pool that gives us the best income.

To offer the best income it matters all kind of things like the coins enabled, Yiimp settings, disabling coins with issues, adding new coins and algos, carefully managing the exchange of all coins to BTC with the lowest fee. I do not want to maintain all of these besides maintaining hundreds of rigs.

So, I do believe that paying more than 10%, sometimes 20% to the pool administrators is too much for me and also I do believe you agree that it might be too much for you also. I also do not like at all to be lied and have my income stolen by all kind of tricks like misleading statistics, or 10% exchange rate fee or unmaintained pool that leads to zero income for half a day. I did pay a lot of money to buy the rigs, I do pay a lot on electricity and I do expect the pool to be fair because besides monitoring it, they do not have anything else to do, so they should get 1% pure profit from 20k miners and every month that means a lot of money for them, they have no risks like we all do, money spent on hardware.