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Hey all,
Hows this first post and asking if there is (un)known BS in alt coin pools.

Now I am quite new to all this stuff but can spot odd patterns quite well ;)

How can 2 of the top ten hash contributors to a pool fail to find a block for the past 300 odd blocks ? Together their hash power is the same as the top spot which consistently posts finds.

Now is this just a freak result that I have stumbled upon or a nice way to increase the pools income by faking miners,

discuss (lol)

ezo

Is the pool running a stratum server? It was recently revealed that there is an error in the code of one of the more popular stratum servers that allows an exploiter to submit fake shares that will still be counted. On some of the big Litecoin pools people had been exploiting this and they were being paid for hash rates that were up to 30 times their actual hash rate. I would bring your concerns to the attention of the pool operator. It could always just be a freak result, as you describe. Such is the nature of random. If it becomes a recurring pattern, however, there may be more to it.

More information available here: https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php/topic,4002.0.html

Thanks for the informative reply, emailed the pool and it appears stratum has went offline. Along with the miners with odd stats...

Make of that what you will ;)

ezo