I've registered to post in this thread after reading it for a while.
First I want to thank Phonetic for a very good job done on his pool!
Scryptpools made me more DOGES than any other pool. This pool was smoking hot just a few days ago.
People lining up to pay 2% with their 1Mhz+ rigs, asking for invites because we all knew: Scryptpools with Phonetic is the place to be!
I've studied the scripts the pools run on and as a php developer I can tell you that the code doesn't scale well for many simultaneous users.
Especially when you're under a DDOS attack, which many of the popular DOGE pools suffered from.
Phonetic has been doing his best to keep the pool going, and so far he has always kept his word.
I've been a fan of his work ethics. Combined with the payout of the site... this pool was golden.
Then the attacks came, and once while working on a fix I see Phonetic coming back to this thread being accused by people of being a scammer.
From that moment on everything that went wrong was proof he was a scammer.
This was just before or on Christmas.
Let's say he has a loving family, wanting him to be with them... and he has us... a pool of people accusing him of being a scammer.
Would you sacrifice your family's joy over a gang of people accusing you?
I think that IF Phonetic runs of with our DOGES, it will be because we made him do it. By constantly repeating he's a scammer.
If you keep telling something to someone, they may start to believe in it...
So how about we all turn this thing 180 degrees and get things up and running again.
Because we all know that this is one of the best pools when things work as they should.
First, let's assume he installed or configured a script that did pay out people too much.
To those that are not familiar with mining pool software... There is no single-install solution. You'll have to mix and match some scripts, who are cloned by many people with different features. Some turn out to have errors. Like paying out too little or too much.
So the pool is in debt because it paid some users too much, who may either stay quiet or just think they got lucky.
We can fix this debt the pool has by all chipping in. We could all donate 50 or 100 percent for a few hours of mining.
Yes we would give away our coins, but as DOGE miners and holders it wouldn't hurt to act as a community and help rebuild one of our foundations.
That could help strengthen the DOGE community vibe. And a better DOGE vibe could lead to a better DOGE exchange rate:)
Let's all stick our DOGES together and defeat the obstacles ahead!
you are right my friend i like phonetic too
but he could say that miners im off for 1 week or 2
or im going to vacation or anything...
look at situation here...
1-coins stuck
2-no response from a active admin like phonetic
3-sell huge amount on doges on cryptsy
3-trace route info
what u execpt??
scrypt pool was best pool ive mined in and im very upset for this issue
and yes we will donate if it need to keep pool runing up