No doubt it's a hard time to mine...I'm no where near profitable right now, just trying to get through the hard times. As far as rentals, we've had this conversation. Don't think that's a factor. Alot of miners we lost are in the range between U and me (35-50th) and the big boys (say .5Ph). I'm concerned that those are an important part of the user base. I wish I could look at some other pools hashrate distribution stats for comparison (ie slush), If this is an industry wide issue, then oh well.
I hate to be the one to say it, but it seems possible that some of our hashpower may be going to that other pool now that they are getting closer in size and getting more frequent blocks than before...
Yes Halong is indeed ripping off all their buyers by mining over 100PH of their miners for weeks on that pool ...
I don't want Halong on this pool - and if they did move here I'd block them.
I'm not interested in helping people scam others.
Our hash power is not going to that pool ... as I have already pointed out before.
Nor is there any 'equaliser' involved in hash rate.
As I have pointed out MANY times before, as long as a pool is finding plenty of blocks every 2 weeks (every diff change) the only difference size makes is variance.
Variance does NOT mean being rewarded less, it means the amount you get goes up and down more.