Okay guys, as the shit keep hitting the fan harder and harder here I need to take a few steps to actually end that drama for me:
Suprnova will not reopen any of it's XVG/Verge pools for mining whatsoever. You can mine it freely on any different pool if you like. Withdrawals are possible of course.
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This will be my last dealing with XVG. I don't like to get cheated and blamed. As a miner myself I care for what I mine and I care for others as well - you can take it or leave it.
I get why you're pissed off and I'm a total noob here, but I gotta say that I think they need you ocminer.
WE need people like you running the pools and keeping an eye on things for the rest of us. In this quickly evolving space we need a lot more than straight up profit-takers. We need people who give a shit about doing this thing right.
I hope you change your mind about XVG. I'd use your pool at double the fee exactly because you care about more than profits.
I don't agree about the part about never mining Verge no matter what. We don't make statements like this and we'll go back to mining Verge after a period of stability. It seems like pool operators seem to let themselves get overtaken by emotion constantly, rather than simply looking at the best way to make money.
On the other hand, I agree with where he says that he doesn't trust Verge. The $12,000 we lost is a huge amount of money. Cryptocurrencies are going to be reaching the bottom of this bubble cycle later in the year, and we need to sell and save as much money as possible to weather the period where bitcoins are worth $1000 or $2000 before the next bubble starts. That money could pay a developer's expenses for more than a month, and imagine all the new features we could add with that. This is not some sort of game. Real people's lives are at stake. We just paid someone to move across the country for us, picking up his entire life. The action yesterday increases the risk that he did all that for nothing. I personally don't think that many people here understand this.
Taking those two points together, we don't make policy based off emotions or because we truly want to wholeheartedly support a particular coin. The sole purpose of our pool (and likely those of other calm and rational business owners) is to make as much money for us and our customers and to keep people employed, and mining Verge is not a reliable way to do that. If the circumstances change, then we'll re-enable Verge.