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Title: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: gthoo on December 27, 2013, 12:43:54 PM
Hello, I have tried to get back in to the pools website ( https://cats.bettercoin.org (https://cats.bettercoin.org) ) for some hours, but I cant reach the site? Is the site just down at the moment, or was the pool just a scam?


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: bct-lurch on December 27, 2013, 12:47:48 PM
Hello, I have tried to get back in to the pools website ( https://cats.bettercoin.org (https://cats.bettercoin.org) ) for some hours, but I cant reach the site? Is the site just down at the moment, or was the pool just a scam?

Looks like it is down. None of the other subdomains are loading either.


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: gthoo on December 27, 2013, 12:50:12 PM
How long has it been down?


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: bct-lurch on December 27, 2013, 12:53:54 PM
How long has it been down?

Looking at the alt-coins forum maybe it has been shutdown? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=377433.0


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: gthoo on December 27, 2013, 12:57:38 PM
shit, I did mine 2 days for them...

but the pool site was up yesterday.


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: kubz on December 27, 2013, 04:16:00 PM
down for 7 hours


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: gthoo on December 29, 2013, 12:47:23 AM
Okey, Today i did get a mail from them
Quote
Hi Guys,

I can't trust the CAT addresses stored in the database behind the cats.bettercoin.org pool, since a bunch of funds were redirected to the thieves' wallet addresses after the successful hack. 

To expedite refund processing for coins in your bettercoin CATS account please provide me with only the following:

Subject: CAT Refund [your pool username]
Body: your current CAT Address

Thanks and sorry for the delay.  I was on the road for 12hours.  Processing EAC and TIPS pools next. 

Bettercoin Admin

So guys, I do not think they did try to scam me :)


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: CoinPN on December 29, 2013, 01:10:40 AM
tips.bettercoin.org has been down for a few days now too.


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: gthoo on December 29, 2013, 11:11:56 AM
I did get my catcoins back :)


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: Laromus on December 29, 2013, 11:18:49 AM
they are pretty legit, I think they were just down for a bit, you can always tell if its a scam if you check out the forums or number of users on a site, other tells are if they ask for a really high take/percentage and don't let you change the BTC payout threshold.


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: infinitybo on December 29, 2013, 04:20:25 PM
@Githoo Sure you need to know what happen anyways looks like they are just down.


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: njohnson3163 on December 29, 2013, 04:31:00 PM
just hope for it to come back up, not much else you can do...


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: mbenga on December 29, 2013, 05:31:24 PM
i havent seen a pool working well yet, all with a lot of lag or downtimes


Title: Re: Is this pool down at the moment or scam?
Post by: edutBTC on January 07, 2014, 07:28:51 AM
Looks like the pool website is back online.