Quote from: Experimenter on July 07, 2018, 07:57:39 AM

Kano, since you didn't respond to my last PM, let me ask it again here.

Situation is the following. I had an account with a few Ebit E10 mining on this pool for several months. Yesterday that account was blocked. Kano said (in PM) the account is blocked because he "no longer trusts them to be mining properly". The E10 I own have a firmware 8.0.0.45 provided by the factory (Ebang). If there are any doubts - this firmware is still available on their web site. I suggested to arrange a remote access for Kano to have a look in case he suspects an incorrect behavior of these miners. In response, I was only asked to "mine elsewhere".

Does this mean Ebit E10 are not allowed on this pool at all?
Something tells me I'm not the only one running the E10. I really don't understand why my account caused any suspicions.

And, if E10 are not allowed, how about Ebit E9 / E9+ / E9.x that are currently offered by Ebang?

I don't trust it.
You are the only one using it.

Testing it requires finding Bitcoin blocks.

Pools have lost a lot of BTC due to untested or improperly tested hacks.
The issue with Slush in Dec 2015 was exactly that - up to 500 BTC
ckpool software has lost at least 3 blocks due to shit testing and in the most recent case him then letting the miners take the fall.
Miners in both cases seem OK with losing BTC due to this sort of shit.
That's those pools, not this pool.

I will do my best to stop it happening here.
I keep track of a lot of data related to this, that ckpool DOES NOT BOTHER TO DO.
The testing I do is also well above the level of what Slush does.
ckpool has no idea how to do it at all.

Losing one miner with somewhere between 4 and 9 accounts (no idea why you have so many accounts) with miner versions that are suspect is no issue for me, I prefer to reduce the risk of miners losing rewards.

So can you 100% guarantee the modified firmware in your miners will find Bitcoin blocks?
Will you back that up with returning all the rewards you have made if there is an issue with it?
I think not.

Thus the answer I gave.

Though you left out part of my answer ... how unexpected.

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Please mine somewhere else.
Any payouts/dust you are due you'll get the same as everyone else but no more.

Edit: for those wondering about if this is actually useful?
Early on in the pool I did indeed ban a few miners for such problems.

One admitted that indeed his changes to a proxy probably would cause the bad statistics.
He may or may not have lost a block in that time, but it was not a high % probability since the detection was well below block level.

Another I gave the option of continuing mining and I'd withhold payouts until his statistics were no longer so outrageously bad.
He left. I doubt he withheld a block either since it was even less probable than the above case.

However, had I not bothered to generate and keep the statistics necessary and not found these (and there were others) sooner or later one of them would have withheld blocks.

I consider this necessary.
A certain other pool obviously doesn't.
As I've said before, you're stupid to mine there and the payout naming specifically means that you are stupid also.