I'm no expert, but I'm seeing some weird transactions on the explorer. Compare these two, for example:
https://adnetexplorer.com/tx/854bcd027a8745a1e26901acc540449bfe385d8b7a585b6ab4e43c23884df86ahttps://adnetexplorer.com/tx/2b381892e2193d294a7ffc9a358461ef6b5ffc133aaf59c3bf4420cd78da1967They both come from the same address, which is the minergategpu pool. The destination addresses of the second transaction correspond to the miners on the pool, including my own. But where are the coins from the first (larger) transaction going? 15 minutes later an almost identical transaction appears on the explorer, another 400 coins. And another one, 6 minutes after that. That's 1200 coins in 25 minutes sent from the minergategpu pool address, not sent to the miners?
The number of coins I am getting doesn't compute - at one point I was providing about 1/3 the (reported) network hash. At 100 coins every 2 minutes I would expect around 1000 coins per hour, but I'm getting nowhere near that. Is there another (hidden) pool we don't know about that is mining to the same address as the minergategpu pool? The explorer doesn't let you view addresses, and the pools don't show what blocks have been mined, so it's hard to see where the coins are going. I'm concerned about the lack of transparency between the pools and the explorer. Can I trust a pool that doesn't show which blocks are being mined there?