Quote from: Entropy-uc on June 21, 2014, 12:22:21 AM

Quote from: hamburgerhelper on June 20, 2014, 06:46:26 PM

Quote from: jfederkins on June 20, 2014, 06:29:59 PM

Based on a post he put on his web site I would say we will not see him back on BitMinter any time soon.

"Jun 20 3:29 AM I've made the decision to move us off bitminter due to its toxic community. I will be splitting our hash between several major pools in an attempt to smooth out our variance."

Maybe that's why he left. Here's another possibility:

"Jun 20 3:29 AM I've made the decision to move us off bitminter so that I could scam them and say it was bad luck without them ever being able to prove it."

I suspect we'll never know which is the real reason for multipool's departure.

Personally I wish that he wasn't verbally attacked by members of this forum, but I also wish that his pool pulled its weight while a part of Bitminter. Both are out of my control, so I'm not getting worked up about either.

Let's be clear. I wasn't attacking him. I asked if it makes sense to accept a proxy pool when there is a serious issue of bad actors cheating pool users. A proxy pool makes for an easy cutout to hide behind if you are up to no good. I was hoping for a discussion on the merits of that issue, which everyone has managed to ignore for 3 days.

I also point out that he was paid around 100 BTC and contributed only 25. I think it is perfectly reasonable to freeze withdrawals on an account in that position until some investigation can be made. Doing so as a general policy would be a reasonable failsafe against abuse of the pool.

If flound was actually operating honestly he would know that luck always shifts. He would have stuck around and waved that in my face and anyone else criticizing him. The fact that he ran away makes me all the more suspicious.

Focusing on one person isn't really useful though. The real issue here threatens the existence of public pools. There needs to be mechanisms to either validate the integrity of pool workers or minimize the damage abusers can cause.

We are in a different boat than most folks. We can easily move Koi to solo-mining, in fact our back pools are solo mining servers. But I prefer to outsource the management of well connected bitcoin clients and DDOS protections for a small fee. It would be a shame it that model is destroyed because we can't find a response to this threat.

+1

I had proposed that Doc make per user CDF available on the Bitminer site. I don't think this is the whole answer, but I think it would be a start to building a systematic approach to the block withholding threat. The good doctor can explain why he didn't like the idea if he's so inclined.