Quote from: comeonalready on March 26, 2014, 08:31:07 AM

Quote from: gtraah on March 26, 2014, 08:20:18 AM

Before people make assumptions I am not in no way pointing the fingers at pool owner or any pool owner in fact, as I am in no way to know.. But I am just curious after reading about this hi-jacking thing... Wouldnt it be very easy for a pool owner of a multipool to take 5% hashing power of peoples rigs Randomly , so that not all the people know its happening at once because its suspicious but a different random group off 300 people each day 5-10% of each Plus the pool fee. How are we to know what is happening, since its not happening to all the people the other 3000-4000 people will just say check your network, pings, rigs, settings, cgminer etc.... I find it very hard for an outsider who does not have any admin access to the stratum point servers to re-direct hashing power from inside > to > outside, not saying its not possible but I recon there are some very shifty pools out there that we need to be aware off. I think we all need figure out a way to find out if its happening for our own good and to look after one another, maybe there is a way and I don't know about it....

WHats your thought?

There are far easier ways for a pool operator to skim off the top without leaving much of a trail for you to follow, and this is especially true for multicoin pools, so if you have reason to doubt the character of a pool operator then you should immediately switch to a different pool. As for wafflepool, I tracked down poolwaffle's true identity (no, I won't share it so don't ever bother asking for a hint), so I know exactly with whom I am dealing, and he has thus far shown to be trustworthy and conscientious. But don't take my word for it; make your own judgments.

Yeh thanks for the input, not sure if they can even leave a trail if you do it right.. and I woudln't expect you to make his identity public so dont worry... Its hard to judge anyone over the internet. Poolwaffle to me sounds like a good guy, I have seen his posts and he seems legit. But I mean.... a pool may be in line with other pools as for profit, it may have no downtime, rejects could be low, pool owner could be a good communicator, if you were to keep people making you $$ you would wouldnt want to leave them in the dark anyway <<< All this and it can still be happening who is to know?.. Thats the reason why I cannot point any fingers.. Its extremely hard which is why I was wondering if there was something to help people judge multipools.

Honestly I know the best way is mine your self and juggle the coins yourself but of course this takes time especially for people who work and use this as an extra source of $.. I wish I was rich enough to quit work and get into this full time lol ... im the type that will stay up far into the night for weeks until i know the crypto industry back to front, i have not had a chance to do so but only read bits and pieces here and there.

@ utahjohn

Thats a good idea to help in some way I guess, its a good start. But Thinking about it again, they can just post the parts MINUS the parts we not supposed to see and close the code so it looks complete