He has double payment issues around 24th..
so.. if he cant pay anybody.. Why didnt he:
1. Take his pool offline.
2. Inform on troubles on the site to make people leave for other pools (if he is not lying with his last info that 500 MHash made shit hit the fan)
Failing both of these DOES lead to scamming suspicion.. So your "baseless scammer namecalling" is the baseless statement..
If you have a failed service and are (mis)-handling value of some kind of a customer, and you know you cant pay the customer. you shut it down, until fixed.. or at least informs so the customer can choose to either continue to mine with the risk of not earning anything.. or move to a different pool to actually get paid. And to relieve the pool of its activity to help on the issues..
And then the last and most revealing hint that this is a scam..
I have said it many times. but here it goes again.
This pool had over 2.5GHash per second a long time..
ALOT of coins have been mined after his double payment issues.. Where is these doge's if he have to "get new coins" to pay us back?
IF THESE ARE GONE. its because _he_ removed them.. easy as that.
I didn't join the pool until the 26th, but got two payments after that. One manual at 4.6k on the 26th and one auto (which was set to 10k) for 21.3k on the 28th.
So the pool was operating and paying out, at least to some extent, until at least 26th Dec 04:35 GMT when I got my last payment. Thus leading me to hope that he did actually pay out a lot of the doges mined after the double payment issue. But what made him, or at least the site, stop paying out after that?
Is there any way he could have f***ed things up with a different branch? (Asking, as I don't quite understand how that works)
As for taking down the pool, didn't he at one point say he had to buy doge for BTC to pay out after the double payment? If so I can see how he might have reasoned that the trouble was mostly over and he would use the income from the pool to pay out the difference between what had been mined and what the pool had available until it balanced out.
Lastly, are we sure that no miners from the pool got a payment after the 28th?