Quote from: ctya on Today at 01:08:26 AM

I have emailed admin@mmpool.org several times since 27 December 2022 and I have received no reply since then.

The admin assured me in 2021 that the pool would remain operational and encouraged more mining. I rented mining rigs and found the majority of the blocks in 2021.
Those rewards were paid out as promised. The admin encouraged more mining

This year, I mined more and doubled down in the last quarter to try to find a block before the end of the year for this pool.
It was a long and difficult round with low luck. It seemed to go on forever. I went in deeper.
A block was found and I was elated to get some of the year-long investment back... or so I thought.

We were robbed before the payout happened.
The admin put the pool on hold for an audit and then dropped communications.

I have been patient, but this is fraud.
I don't have any other course of action: I will find the admin in person and continue the conversation.
I emailed the admin to say exactly that message today. Still no reply.

So, backing up to last year...
On 27 December, I received this final message for 2022. At the time I agreed to keep it confidential while the admin worked out the details. But since I have had no reply, here are all the details of that final message. The typos and removed information was exactly as I received it. The facts don't match what actually happened since the alleged perpetrator talks about 2016 and 2017 and this all went down between December 2021 and December 2022. But anyway, here it is.

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I have been contacted by the person who took the pool funds today. They have provided proof that they accessed the server. They apparently gained access a long time ago, and waited for the opportunity to obtain the funds. Here's part of their communication:

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The btc server was accesed first with user [removed}, I checked that wallet that was stored local and I see 0 transactions.
I copied that wallet and go away for months.
I keeped an eye on that public addreses from pool and I see no transactionas from 2016 or 2017 and I go away.
after some time I come back and check again that address and I see some coinbase transactions from some block mined.
I come back to that btc server and I tried to modified the pool config file but no admin privilege and I tried to got admin privilege with a linux kernel expl.
but was a btc server crash first time and then the root privilege escalation was succesful.
I put a new mining address and keep waiting months.
after a lot of time in a day I received a mining pool notification and bang the block mined.
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They say the funds are "in a safe place" and asked my to email them back for details which I have done today. Please keep the specific details above confidential for now while I communicate with them. I'll let you know as soon as they reply, or within 24 hours if I haven't heard back.

Somebody please quote this post for me.
I will apologize if I am so lucky to be wrong about this fraud ... or I will find the admin and discuss it in person.

ctya
(Calmer Than You Are )

I am sorry for the loss you suffered.

Even if it is not fraud by the pool owner he still is liable for not securing the mining address correctly.

You certainly would have a civil case against him if you find him.