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Title: Bitlc Makes A Stand Against Proxy Pool Post by: stoppots on February 18, 2012, 09:39:47 PM Nice to see a small pool like Bitlc.net take a stand against ABCPool.co pool hopping its pool.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10121.1100 Title: Re: Bitlc Makes A Stand Against Proxy Pool Post by: jake262144 on February 18, 2012, 10:26:03 PM If Bitlc changed their payout scheme to a non-hoppable one they would not need to take that stand...
Title: Re: Bitlc Makes A Stand Against Proxy Pool Post by: Jine on February 19, 2012, 12:11:18 AM The reson for us bringing this to light is cause all the lies told by their pool-ops.
Another reson is also that they've deliberately avoided all of our detection mechanisms to avoid large-scale miners like these (botnets primarily, but also pool-hopping pools). The third reason is that they ARE having a bad effect on our system, as it's 500-600GH that jumps to us for a few minutes, and then it's gone again. Such spikes are VERY hard to handle for anyone (it's thousands and thousands of simultaneous requests)... We are aware of that we're still a prop-pool, but that wasn't the reson for us decicing to ban them, it was purely for the better good of the community, site and bitcoin as a currency. And yes, we are switching from prop to PPLNS, check our previous voting-thread for more info why :) ETA is in a few days. -- Regards, Jim Bit LC Inc. Title: Re: Bitlc Makes A Stand Against Proxy Pool Post by: jake262144 on February 19, 2012, 12:58:26 AM ... And yes, we are switching from prop to PPLNS, check our previous voting-thread for more info why :) ... I already voted in that poll :)PPLNS is a decent system depending on the exact implementation, I'm sure you have acquainted yourself with Meni Rosenfeld's analysis of pool payout schemes (https://bitcoil.co.il/pool_analysis.pdf). ABCProxy deserve every bit of heat they are getting for hiding the true nature of their operation from their miners. Best of luck to you, Jim. |