Quote from: eleuthria on June 16, 2014, 09:55:04 PM

Quote from: guytechie on June 16, 2014, 09:53:33 PM

If Eligius is withholding payment to this user (and rightfully so), will he redistribute those 200 BTC to the other members?

And what about here on BTC Guild?

I noticed luck has gone back up. So was it really bad luck before, or was it an attack?

It was bad luck earlier this week. But who knows, maybe yet another user is attacking (it isn't the previous withholders). You can read above for why it's impossible to detect an attack unless it is sustained for long enough time to provide statistical anomalies for users. But the bad luck spike we had lasted only a few days, and was caused by just a few very poor rounds. The pattern does not fit an attack because we'd have a few normal length rounds, then one or two bad rounds, and then back to normal. There weren't any significant speed fluctuations between those changes.

Eligius was able to hold 200 BTC hostage because Eligius does not pay out regularly. BTC Guild pays out multiple times per hour. Even if I froze the user's accounts, you'd get maybe a dozen, two dozen coins. In return, you'd end up with some very pissed off people who already know how to weaponize their ASICs against a pool by simply reverting a patch.

but we know that this group did and they are currently mining on the pool. there is the opportunity now to force them to make it right to you and us by withholding payouts - or they GTFO.