Unfortunately, litigation is part of doing business, especially in a place like the US.

You should write to the pool operator, both here and by email.

You are quote right. In a haste, I misread your previous post.

I think what is happening that they are averaging the last x minutes of hashing. If they show low hash rate for a long time, though, then it may be a reason to be concerned.

The difficulty went up recently.

The question was how I came to this topic. The answer is that I was looking for some kind of algorithm (or even implementation) to hop to a different coin, as opposed to a different pool, when the difficulty goes up.

If you follow the fluctuations in the hash rate of terracoins, it is already happening. So, instead of just a few people doing this, the entire community should do it. The result is that after some fluctuation, the difficulty would reach a more-or-less stable point, because the difficulty where profitability of terracoin is equal to the profitability of bitcoin is publicly known.

Right now, the difficulty goes up to 60K and then down to 8K, and up again, etc. If people bailed out from mining already around 30-35K of difficulty, and returned when the difficulty is again below 30K (or at least a large portion of people would do that), then the equilibrium could be reached.

Am I mistaken?

I was thinking about what is the most "fair" reward system. I was interested on what others have written about the topic. Meni's paper on the topic (which I have yet to finish reading) struck me as more deep and thorough.

I am not sure if I would call it cheating. In the case of Teracoins, some kind of algorithm  that makes hash rates more even would actually benefit the entire community.

Do you know why rounds are taking now much longer even though the difficulty has not changed, and the hash rate is higher?

I was paid too. Finally.

Shortly after I mentioned here the pool that I switched to, the pool's web interface has come under what looks like a DDoS attack.

I do wonder if some people may be interested in discrediting certain pools or feathercoin altogether.

What is the reason that people keep joining this pool? I see that the hash rate went from 200 to 400 over 24 hours.

Which pool do you consider the best for FTC?

If you are sure that it is a scam, you may also want to report this entire threat to the maintainer of the board, so that they will investigate what is going on.

My address was not changed (yet?), but I have not received a single FTC yet, although the pool operator wrote me to double-check my wallet address.

What baffles me is that the posted mining rate of the pool seems to be constantly increasing.

For the time being, I switched to http://fhc.ub3rl33t.com

If we keep mining for this pool, then the message will not get across that it is not reasonable to expect people to work for free.

It looks like the LTC pool operated by the same operator (http://ltcoin.net/index.php) has already been deserted due to non-payment.

The odd thing is that the hashrate of the pool seems to be constantly increasing, in spite of the non-payment.

Were you just paid, or are you worried about not having been paid?

Thank you for the info.

Is there a specific time when you usually get paid?

Did anyone here received a payment in the last 24 hours?

I have read a lot about MS Afterburner, and the various settings  that one can have on it. But there is one thing that I could not find any in-depth posting on:

How does it really work? Did anyone manage to analyze it with a disassembler?

I am particularly curious to know how AB circumvents the memory lock on HD 7970 cards, and allows for very low memory clock (and voltage) with high core clock.