It's not just the mined balance that people lost. It's hours of hashing on a brand new coin when the pool went down.
Why is the original transaction information unavailable? How are we supposed to know how many coins we lost?
There's also a 24 hour time limit to claim a payment(which is long since past) and no guarantee that it will be found.
I wonder how full the pool's Coinye wallet is now from people who "failed" to claim their mined coins? Roll Eyes
Defend it all you want. Regardless if the intent was malicious, it still happened. Confidence is lost and people will still accuse it of being a scam because there is no way to prove otherwise.
He is perfectly qualified, he just had a few hiccups the first time... We are using powerful BlackLotus DDOS protection now so this WILL NOT happen again.