they are smart kids. they knew this was going to happen. it worked, they got a lot of advertising out of this. but the initial promise wasn't delivered. that to me is a bullshit move, and very hard to respect. let say waffles decided to raise the fee without telling anyone, but just posting it on the site somewhere to "cover more server costs because i didnt expect such traffic". it would be shady, simple as that.
Yep, as shitty as it is to pull the deal (or at least, just keep tweaking it), they're going to have a very large LTC pool at the end of it. Their frontend is great, I've used them before, and they're definitely a decent pool. That said, it sucks to be dicked around
When they switched the 40GHs -> 25GHs (maybe 45-60min ago?) I turned off our proxying. At 2x is pretty worth (if they drop that low, we can talk about it again), at 1.25x the profit is only _marginally_ better than what we do when you account for rejects and the headache of constantly turning on/off, and trying to figure out the payment situation. Essentially the slight bump in profit (a few percent) isn't worth the headache to deal with having to constantly watch it (and run a shitty proxy that was built in 3 hours on no sleep!)
So for now, we're back to normal mining. I'll keep my eye on it here and there and see if it bumps to 2x, but I'm guessing its unlikely