Re: ==== Eligius, please pay my 200+ BTC ====

Btw: Funny how the discussion rolls on, while the guy who opened this thread seems to have disappeared....

He vanished right around the time everyone realized that not only were we owed the 200+ BTC that were held back, but also the 400+ BTC or more that he was paid for mining when he was not contributing.

That or his so called "mining partners" told him to shut the hell up before he got them banned from all the major pools.

His gear represents a true threat to all pool mining.

So far no one has offered a method to prevent bad luck attacks to their pool...
A solo fork for a pool works but and a big but not very attractive to the smaller miners.
Pretty sure the bigger pools see and understand the threat of a bad luck attack. I can see this to be a real issue from now on.

To any pool op out there besides a solo fork what other solutions are there for us?

At New liberty thanks for seeing and mentioning my ideas value.

for me I make money mining and selling and setting small guys up to run a small mining op.

I offered this:
When a block is found, send the winning nonce to other large miners and see if one doesn't return it.

That could work as long as the 'bad luck attacker' is big enough . His work around would be 100x 2th accounts and that may slow him down a lot to set up.

use your idea and my idea. I think quite a few people would divert hash power to a solo fork if given the option. your idea slows the attacker down since he needs to have enough small accounts to do it. my idea make the choice on the miner.

end the risk of a bad luck attack by solo mining our solo fork or accept the risk and release us of liability if we fail to stop a bad luck attack.

That is a pretty decent way of dealing with the problem. One thing for sure doing nothing is really not a good choice by pool ops. So I hope they do something worth while.