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Re: [POOL][Scrypt][Scrypt-N][X11][X13] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com
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poolwaffle
on 16/07/2014, 22:11:59 UTC
If you rented out a building to someone, you would want to know what they are doing or else you could end up with some kind of  child porn business that could ultimately effect you. I know totally different subject but same principle.

This is a terrible analogy -- Owning the building does not grant you rights to the IP that is developed on the premises.

If you were a owner of a house or a commercial building , would you want to know that your tenants were not jeopardizing your property due to criminal actions?

i wasnt asking the pool owners to so called rights , but i was asking them to simply display the numbers they should already have in their profit formula.

Right, and what I keep saying is, I'm still not hearing any reasoning behind it other than "I'd like to see it".  To which my answer is still "the way we come up with those numbers is essentially our 'secret sauce', and publishing them can only hurt us".  Gains from our (WP users/me) side is literally you going "well I got to see them", and a few other miners going "yep. those are numbers", and the downside is more competition and giving away recipes.

Some things we publish because of the potential for me doing something nefarious, for example, we publish all of the blocks we find, which can easily be matched up to the work we send for miners, and you can easily see I'm not skimming blocks (a large number of other pools don't publish this info).  We certainly have no requirement to publish anything, but I try to publish as much as possible to make sure everyone understands I'm being as transparent as possible (within reason), and that we're all on the same team.

We publish our profitability numbers once they're earned, but publishing the stuff that got us to the conclusion that it was worth it just gives away too much, and really doesn't show anything exciting to miners.

tldr; "I want to see it" isn't a valid reason.  If there is a serious concern (an actual exploitable situation), please bring that up, but otherwise, the "just because" doesn't outweigh the (marginally) worse competitive position.