Quote from: BrandonMcPherson on May 02, 2014, 02:46:23 AM

DPoS, I appreciate that you are genuinely concerned about this, but variance happens.

If you have any evidence beyond the de facto luck of the pool, I'd personally be delighted to see it, but claiming to be the only guy who can see the conspiracy while the math nerds politely nod and smile...

I say this without malice, but it reminds me of the scores of (to a person, bad) poker players I've met over the years who talk about how dealers screw them, how winners are just lucky, how they usually win when they sit in their lucky seat, how they never win with pocket aces, and a gillion other things that all come down to the reality that variance happens.

They don't understand it, and so the game must be rigged.

nope - I've mined with BTCGuild 2nd half of last year and right into this situation. I totally know the types you are talking about.. I am talking about a step down in the overall dynamic.

I said a few times I don't run pools and can't be an expert. But I can notice when a game balance has changed from a mile away so I put that out there right when it started to happen.. It continues and will continue until taken seriously

I'll put it another way.. do you think those folks that raped wall street with High Frequency Trading haven't cast their eyes on mining pools to look for any way shape or form to get and edge?

Call me chicken little and I am not attacking BTCGuild, it is just this is the place I mined for so long so this where my gut threw the red flag that something was amiss..

perhaps Ghash or Discus Fish or KNC figured something out