Quote from: BumMiner on January 22, 2014, 07:23:15 PM

Quote from: Astrocoin on January 22, 2014, 06:29:01 PM

OFFICIAL UPDATE ON http://HTTP://ASTROPOOL.CO AND EARLY COINS

So due to the concerns expressed in this thread regarding http://astropool.co/ and termination of operations, I have contacted the creator of Astropool.co and he has informed me that when Astrocoin mining started at 12 A.M. UTC Jan. 22nd after a public announce on our IRC channel and here on Bitcointalk forum, the difficulty was very low, and several people jumped on board. The pool was unable to handle the traffic and there were several bugs. As of right now, the pool has shut down, everyone has been paid out in full and the site is still alive for anyone to go and withdraw their balances.

Another concern many expressed was that there was an instamine right after launch of the mining pools. Up till the launch we mined 3100 blocks, however within a few minutes of the pool launch, the total blocks jumped to over 4500. The developer has notified me that there has been some unfair manipulation and that the pool did not reward those 1015 block coins to anyone. Taking this into consideration, we have successfully requested ASTROPOOL.CO to return the Astrocoins that were not tied/linked to any account during the massive mine at 0.07 difficulty. We have confiscated those coins and have stored them away in a cold wallet that is encrypted and offline. Those coins will never hit and exchange and we are posting the URL to those coins publicly for all to keep an eye on.

http://cryptexplorer.com/address/GTmuyDuDMZovXH4ZjK8xh8kwCKcCsMPJhC

A little later...

My thoughts exactly. a million sockpuppets can't hide the truth in the blockchain.