It surely wasnt off topic, it was just one of those "accusation of scam" threads we already had a lot of. They deleted the whole thread not just one post.

Someone claimed blocks are being dropped (something with SVP settings.... Huh

) - i did not understand his point entirely - and that hashnest should switch from PPLNS to PPS to make the game fair again.

Then someone else suspected hashnest to claim more hashrate in its pool (antpool) than they actually have in running machines. There have been many more posts, the thread maybe had 25 posts.

At last I posted an idea into the thread where I expressed the thought that maybe at the time in january when the S2 miners became unprofitable for the first time the following happend: BITMAIN_Rob said hashnest would power off the S2 machines as long as they are in a unprofitable region (lets say around 90-110%) and pay the users the PPS earnings no matter what - out of their own pockets. The machines have been turned off, thats sure. But i think they never have been turned on again. In order to find a fair calculation for the earnings of S2 and umisoo they had to add the missing hashrate to the overall pool hashrate as "virtual hashes" so that everyone gets his fair share. But now the machines are "redeemed" and shipped away or destroyed - whatever - but that added virtual amount of hashrate is still sitting there in antpool. They never deleted it. It would add up to - my guess - from 6 to 10 PH. Which the pool actually doesnt have.
That would explain why antpool delivers 16% of all new blocks (https://blockchain.info/pools) and NOT 18.5% as they should. They claim to have 84 PH but i think the real hasrate is 73 PH give or take.

Dont get me wrong - that was just some idea of mine out of the blue. My real point is that they deleted this relatively harmless thread and censored it away the chinese way- or was it not? Did we hit something?

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